This Controversial Triplet Sounds INCREDIBLE

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[blackpranther]

“The Big Throwback” is a great technical compromise in notation. I also like Jacob Collier’s approach to this as well. Great work. Thank you

[homatron]

These recent sessions on rhythm have been brilliant! Getting a lot out of them as a bass player... Great explanations and building on ideas. Cheers!

[borriskarlov]

Adam's slight grin of approval when he nails it :)

[garygimmestad]

The eighth triplet over a bar line has long been a controversial topic in notation software communities. The first post I saw about it was from an arranger who does Cuban-infused jazz. He said it was common in hand-written charts in his community and his question was why it wasn’t available in Finale. Well, you can kludge it graphically but the math just doesn’t work. So, the pedants called it an impossible rhythm, so don’t do it. But, no, he said, the players know exactly what to do with it. Which, of course, is what you’re talking about. Jazz is full of ‘performance practice’ which can only be learned from the community of musicians.

[gilgillis]

A bird in flight has a steady pattern of wing movement, (the beat). When it lands, the movement becomes random, but still beautiful and part of life and breaks the predictability of the beat.

[Alpha-Andromeda]

Great stuff!! As a jazz singer I also appreciate these gold nuggets for scatting

[tuluapale]

Hi from Nairobi, Kenya. Thank you for this. As a drummer learning keys this one excites me!

[Mike-rwnh]

Fantastically clear upload. Thank you, thank you and thrice thank you.

[pickinstone]

You know I push y'all on rhythm all the time because I know you've got these gems begging to be heard and seen. That offset triplet is new to me--excited to explore it. What's a little more basic is thinking of the underlying quarter note and half note triplets beneath everything you play. You can really hear Wes Montgomery, Bobby Timmons, Oscar Peterson, and Cannonball Adderley using a quarter note triplet pulse underneath a lot of what they play. For laying back, that half note triplet is a great way to lock into what Dexter and Miles play. Just as you said, hard to notate all this. Mike Longo used to say that jazztime is three dimensional--thus you can't write it down like classical music. Keep up the amazing rhythmic content Adam, and I won't have to leave all those annoying speakpipes ;)

[ChanokchaiChauychoo]

Great topic. Love it. wish to see more of this rhythm element of music. Can you talk about tip how to read rhythm in the notation

[cstldrums]

The thumbnail for the video is hilarious

[Intense]

5:50 "throw ya hands in the air if yous a true playa"

[pianoman_JP]

I've always thought of comping as complimenting.

[JozefKrajewski]

You slurp nicely while drinking coffee (or tea, or whatever you had)😜

[atax]

from now on, I'm going to call the third of a G chord "that cheeky little C-flat"

[brw]

Is it “Just the Two of Us” or “Blue in Green” ?

[somasabul]

It's a good thing we can't notate everything - there is so much information a performer must bring to the table to turn printed notation into actual sound. If there weren't there would be no difference performances of Chopin by Horowitz vs Yunchan Lim and no artistry on the part of a performer...and even more true in jazz.