The Triplet

Lesson 2/43 | Study Time: 5 Min
Course: Country Piano Method
The Triplet

The Triplet

An eighth note triplet is a group of three evenly spaced notes played within 1 beat. Eighth note triplets are indicated by three eighth notes with the number 3 written either above or below the group.

Sometimes the triplet has a bracket or a curved line around the number 3. The eighth note triplets are played with a third of a beat each. Triplets are easy to understand once you have heard them played.

This example uses a constant stream of triplets on the chords played by the right hand.

Here is a 12 bar Blues pattern which makes use of triplets. Notice the left hand part in this example. This bass line is common in a Country style known as Western Swing.

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1- Other Keys, 16th Notes, Putting it all Together 2- New Rhythms, Chords and Sounds 3- The 12 Bar Blues 4- The Triplet 5- Swing Rhythms 6- Blue Notes 7- 3rd Intervals 8- Seventh Chords 9- Using Seventh Chords 10- Basic Country Sounds 11- The Key of G 12- Bass Runs 13- The Major Pentatonic Scale 14- Sixteenth Notes 15- Grace Notes 16- Putting it all Together 17- Notes on the Piano 18- Inversions and Arpeggios 19- Using Chords for Accompaniment 20- Chord Inversions 21- Left Hand Variations 22- Alternating Bass Style 23- Eighth Note Rhythms 24- Two Handed Accompaniment 25- INTRODUCTION 26- The Chords C, F and G 27- The C7 Chord 28- The C Major Chord 29- D Major Chord Inversions 30- Broken Chords 31- Syncopation 32- Enharmonic Notes 33- The Shuffle 34- C Major Chord Inversions 35- Chord Charts 36- Easy Chord Table 37- The G Major Chord 38- The Blues Scale in G 39- The D7 Chord 40- G Major Chord Inversions 41- The F Major Chord 42- The F7 Chord 43- F Major Chord Inversions

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