| Re: triplets.......help
One thing we haven't mentioned yet is subdivision. Rather than thinking of a quarter note being split into four sixteenths or three eighth note triplets, we think of it as four sixteenths (or 3 eighth note triplets) tied together. Gerald Webster used to drive his students crazy by forcing us to play the subdivisions--instead of "Mary had a little lamb," he would have us play "MaMaMaMaryryryryhadhadhadhadaaaalitlitlitlittletl etletlelamblamblamblamb." Not fun, but it did teach us to place the sixteenths in a dotted eighth/sixteenth pattern in the right spot. That, plus playing in a funk band for a few years made Stravinski easy.
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