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@karlosed

Жыл бұрын

You don't know how well you do this, it's really helpful.

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

That’s most kind.

@crash3711

11 ай бұрын

is 6 16th notes and 2 triplets played slightly different??

@MusicMattersGB

11 ай бұрын

@crash3711 It depends on the context eg 6 16th notes in 3/8 would certainly not be triplets. 6 16th notes in 6/16 would be organised within the measure as 2 dotted eighth note beats.

@crash3711

11 ай бұрын

@@MusicMattersGB When I play this pattern in triplets and when i play the same pattern in 16 notes it fills up the same amount of space but feels different and i'm not sure if it's just the way i'm hearing it or if it is indeed different. 2 hits on the snare, 2 on left tom and 2 on right tom

Hi Gareth - you make things so easy to understand - you are a very helpful music teacher. Breaking down the 2 against 3 into simple instructions for playing is greatly appreciated

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

I’m glad it’s helpful.

Count in 6ths, play one hand every 2nd and the other every 3rd of them. This will let you keep perfect rythm for both hands. (not that I am such clever myself, I learned this trick from Debussy, 1st movement ("Bells sounding through the leaves") of his 2nd "Images". In bar 40 he does exactly that. When I played this I noticed those 6ths in the lower voice of right hand help a lot. 2 against 3 is just seamless here)

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

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I love two against three! And I got a good laugh from your banana analogy.

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

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you are legendary the fact you are still teaching these shows your passion towards the subject i will be sure to watch all of these I am excited to start composing.

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

A pleasure. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk

This has been such a problem for me for a long time. Your video is so helpful. Many thanks Gareth

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

A pleasure

Brilliantly simple. As usual. I learned this a few months ago, and haven't practiced as much as I should. I can do it clapping it out and doing it for a plain rhyth, but I've tried to use the five finger scale exercise doing the 3 versus 2. I have to admit, that is quite challenging. I'll start practicing again.

@MusicMattersGB

10 ай бұрын

It’s tricky at first but with repetition you’ll be doing this in your sleep!

You are the best music teacher i have ever had

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

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Opening from Glassworks by Philip Glass, marvellous piece :)

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

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Learning Bach's beautiful fugue 6 of "Wohltemperierte Clavier" vol.2. BWV875 Lots of triplets! Actually 3 against 2 only in bar 9 (JS was not too hard on us this time), but against two other voices with syncopation… your video comes right on point! 😜

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

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Sir, this video is an absolute treasure!

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

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3:34 This rhythm is like the 3 against 2 polyrhythm condensed into one line

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

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Great lesson thanks 🙏

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

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this is great! super music video thank you so much 🎵

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

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@c-historia

Жыл бұрын

@@MusicMattersGB 🎵🎵

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

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Together, Left, Right, Left, yeah! Great suggestion. Thanks, Gareth.

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

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@mrbrianjhewitt

Жыл бұрын

@@MusicMattersGB I've avoided writing 2 against 3 thinking they might be too hard for many of us to make them sound clear while playing them. I've seen people struggle to play Franz Liszt's Consolation in Db, and wonder if he didn't add the 2 against 3 whether it would have become more accessible to more pianists?

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

Once you know the trick behind how to play 2 against 3 it’s easy.

Hey Gareth, would you be up for making a video on rhythms such as four against threes and how to feel unusual tuplet lengths like you find in Chopin's nocturnes?

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

That’s a possibility

A great example is "Vi ricorda boschi ombrosi" by Monteverdi. 6/8 where the bassline is in 2|2|2 while the first half of the melody is in 3|3 and latter part the first way. It fascinating and kinda difficult to play the first part with a 2|2|2 feel. Could be used as an example!

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

Excellent

Thank You Sir

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

That’s most kind. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk

I would love to see a video on a nocturne from Chopin like his nocturne in B major because that has 22's and all sorts of fun. There not a natural rhythm to feel so once you go beyond triplets and it isn't in a multiple of 3, I feel it's an approximation rather than an accuracy (like 7's or 22's). But that might be my inexperience.

@MusicMattersGB

9 ай бұрын

It certainly invites a measure of freedom

Thank you kindly🤍

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

Glad it’s helpful.

Thanks

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks for your support

I am happy to see instructions on rhythm without the 1+2+3+4+ or the +e & a thingy . 😂

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

See our Rhythm Bootcamp course at www.mmcourses.co.uk

I subscribed his channel and did ABRSM grade 1-7. I wish I could see him 🙏🙏🙏

@MusicMattersGB

9 ай бұрын

Glad you found it helpful. Feel free to book a one to one session via www.mmcourses.co.uk at private tuition.

@mrcrotchet4012

9 ай бұрын

@@MusicMattersGB yes sir I bought the package for my ABRSM theory grade 7 course already🙏

@MusicMattersGB

9 ай бұрын

That’s great

Why does the second note in the treble ends between 2 and 3 of the triplet in the blue example? I thought they equal to the same duration in total, as said in the beginning

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

They equal the same total ie one crotchet beat but one hand divides the beat into two equal parts while the other hand divides into three equal parts. This means that the second note of the two quavers comes between the second and third notes of the triplet.

@Voidermusic

Жыл бұрын

@@MusicMattersGB So how do I have to imagine this, there's a 4/4 bar, and the beamed two crotchets are being played on beat 1 + 3, and therefore the last triplet comes between beat 3 and 4?

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

Think of individual beats. Does the beat divide in 2 (2 quavers) or in 3 (triplet). So these are divisions within each beat.

@Voidermusic

Жыл бұрын

@@MusicMattersGB Yes that's what I meant! I just thought in a whole bar instead of within a beat. But got it, thank you so much!

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

That’s great

your videos are very good . how many takes does it usually take you to make your videos

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. We usually do each video in one take.

@francoisbruel9163

Жыл бұрын

@@MusicMattersGB Impressive and most efficient! Do you have, in front of you, a script or a list of the points you want to make? or is everything so insanely clear in your head that you press "record" and it just flows?!?

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

It depends. Sometimes I have headlines in front of me but often I simply talk through the topic using musical examples

@simongross3122

Жыл бұрын

@@MusicMattersGB That's the mark of a professional

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

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Numerous times I came across scores that for one reason or another I could not work out the timing or I was not sure I had it right. I rewrote those parts in a notation program and had my computer play them through a MIDI keyboard so I could hear them as written. Problem solved.

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

Good solution

@ralphpezda6523

Жыл бұрын

@@MusicMattersGB Generally I also read scores and count off the timing of the notes in my head or oven out loud. I can sight read but lack the ability to get the sound/melody of the piece right so I just do the timing. Even that helps immensely. That's how I figured out triplets but was stumped when it came to playing triplets over eight notes in two parts, treble over bass. Thanks to you I now have the idea but I will notate it, etc., my way to lock it in for me. BTW, pocket music dictionaries are invaluable tools. Some years ago I read Leopold Auer's book titled "How I teach Music," (or something very close to that). Auer taught many of the world's greatest violinists during the late 1800s and early 1900s. I expected it to be loaded with written music and examples. It was not. It was his method for teaching students how to think of music, how to think ahout practice, and how to think about playing. That snapped things in place for me about which I had wondered in the back of my mind without being fully conscious of them. Very few books can do that for any subject. For written music and hand techniques a female student of Auer's wrote a 6 or 7 volume series on how to play violin, published during the early mid 1920s(??). Auer made numerous comments and notations in the margins. I found most of them going through a box of books and papers a few years ago. They belonged to one of my now long deceased uncles who played violin. The information in them is timeless. Many thanks to you.

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

That’s all very interesting

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@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

Glad it’s useful

It's easier if you have three legs on the right and only two on the left, like a disabled beetle. Do it too fast and you'll go cross-eyed.

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

Love it!

🍌🍌🍌 = 2 ♫ ... got it 😂 9:00 this is a fantastic exercise . always wish music instrument training would have started out with drums first.

@MusicMattersGB

Жыл бұрын

There’s certainly good reason to isolate rhythm in order to master it.