Level Up Your Triplets!

In this lesson you'll learn how grouping triplets in 4's instead of the usual 3's opens up a lots of great phrasing possibilities!

[robinmarwick]

Thanks Paul, a really interesting video. Good to see you've finally managed to employ a suitable new assistant.

[crackyflipside]

I love that you are talking about this, youtube saxophone teachers don't talk enough about building up the feel for timing outside of standard eight and sixteenth notes. Clapping odd rhythms against the metronome is a great warmup.

Another exercise is clapping a polyrhythm where you switch your clapping pace each measure. So doing a 4:10 polyrhythm you clap the 10 beat rhythm in the first measure and the 4 beat in the second and keep going back and forth and after a while you develop a feel for where that polyrhythm sits in that 4 beat measure and then you can shift the 4 beat clap to the up beats. I find it helps timing for embellishments.

[savi_rust]

Thank you so much for your videos, you inspire me to keep practicing.

[niamhmrosullivan]

Great lesson and your daughter is so sweet too!! ❤

[EvenFlow]

Fun exercise for something I've been struggling with. Thanks!

[terryblack]

Gonna have to watch another few times to understand this.

[ugo]

Hello😁😁
Thanks for another great lesson

[margotriodejaneiro]

great lesson! Your daughter is besutiful and clever! 🤗🎼😘🎷

[jimm]

If I focused more on these types of rhythms, I could probably answer my own question. Can you please share some song titles that reflect these triplet tricks.

So, Albie is probably too big to pick up like that now 😂