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| Topic Started: May 9 2008, 12:27 AM (860 Views) | |
| Post #16 May 22 2008, 11:03 PM | Bonzolee |
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Brad, damn would it have been cool to hang with Van Halen! Good story, bro. Triplets aren't a note like an "A" or "G#". It's a rhythm note. You count "1-trip-let-2" and so on. Notes of 3. The "Swing" feel. Here's a sample of the triplet feel: http://youtube.com/watch?v=EKj1P3UTbAk Hear that triplet feel in that? Hear how it swings? Instead of "1-and-2" there's an extra note, and they all are even notes that take up the same amount of space. You'll usually hear drummers play a pattern on the hi-hat like "1-let-2-let-3..." in blues that have a swing feel. Alex Van Halen plays that pattern on the double kick in songs like Hot For Teacher. Here's another triplet song, this one starts off with a triplet fill on the snare. Hear the notes of 3? Spinal Tap too!: http://youtube.com/watch?v=I-BYzaDwNoE Also, be careful with the Drop D dependency. Can you play power chords in standard (or on ADG or DGB)? I'd also make sure to know all of the open chords. They're pretty basic. AC/DC uses them a lot. Drop D really isn't cheating, you can do some tough, tough shit using that tuning. You can get sounds you otherwise couldn't. It's all how you use it. I use it on the acoustic sometime to play some weird chords. The cool thing about drop D is you can train your index finger pretty good since you're barring on 2-3 strings with it. It'll bring you closer to playing 6 string bar chords. Open G is even easier then Drop D! It's more of a blues, countryish type tuning though. Keith Richards uses it quite often. And if you lose time because you can't hear the music, don't worry about it. If you can't hear it, "playing along" loses its meaning. |
 
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