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We can, of course, divide our rhythms into
subdivisions of three, five, seven, etc.

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These are generally
referred to as tuplets and

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can be any arbitrary division of a note,
but the most common are in fact triplets.

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There are as you might imagine,

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three triplets quavers, or eighth notes to
a quarter note, three in the time of two.

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Or three triplet quarter
notes to a half note.

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Any basic rhythm could be
subdivided in this manner.

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So if I've got a beat
that goes at this speed,

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that would be quarter notes.

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And triplets would be [NOISE] one,
two, three.

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One, two three.

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One, two, three.

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One, two, three.
One, two, three.

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One, two, three.

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As mentioned, we can have other
subdivisions, for instances, quintuplets.

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So for example, I could divide a minim,
or a half note,

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into five quintuplet eighth notes.

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That would go something like this.

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[NOISE] One, two, three, four, five.

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One, two, three, four, five.

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One, two, three, four, five.

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One, two, three, four, five.

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Tuplets are generally notated in the
simplest fashion by putting a number above

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a beam, as in the triplet quaver or
eighth notes we've already seen.

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The three there implicitly
means three in the time of two.

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So whereas a crotchet, or a quarter note,
would usually be divided into two quavers,

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or eighth notes.

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By putting the three above three quavers,

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we indicate that we want these three
triplet eighths to be in the time of two.

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We can also use brackets with numbers if
we have notes that we don't have flags or

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beams for.

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So to create triplet quarter notes,
we would normally use the bracket to group

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the three notes that we want
played in the time of two.

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And if it's not obvious how many shorter
notes we want in the time of how many

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longer notes, we could explicitly
write a proportion such as 4:3.

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