All right, let's talk about triplets.
If you're relatively new to the guitar, a
good place to start might be the pentatonic
scale, where you have the option of ascending
or descending in triplets.
A common way to play the pentatonics with
triplets would be to take the scale, which
is this, then start on the second note, and
go from the second to the first and back to
the second, in a triplet.
You're dividing the beat into three parts.
So, I'm not going one, two, three, four, that
would be eight notes.
I'm going da-da-da da-da-da da-da-da.
Here's what happens if I work my way up the
scale in triplets.
So, I'm still here, feeling this as my pulse.
Here's what happens when I descend in triplets.
Okay, so you should practice that slowly.
Here it is with full volume.
Descending.
Okay, another thing you can do with triplets,
this is a little more advanced.
I'm going to go the E-minor scale, all right,
starting with the low string.
This gets kind of interesting.
You can take a four note pattern, so take
the first four notes of E-minor, and then
the next four, et. cetera, et. cetera.
Play those as triplets, so then you get a
pattern like this.
Okay, so those are all triplets, just a four
note pattern.
Now, I'm going to play that fast, and with
full volume.
There you have it.
Fun with triplets, enjoy.
