Please explain triplets

Tobias Preener · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 5:00 pm Post subject: Please explain triplets

I know it is one note divided into three, but what im confused about is how different notes=different triplets. Like quarter beats=12th triplets and such. I dont really understand this. Could someone please explain?
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hurleyguyy · Trick Member Joined: 13 Feb 2006

ok DDR talk here:

in frozen ray you know the part where you can spin around, those arent triplets, but they are like it kinda...just slow

then in Legend of Max, after the freeze those are true triplets see how they are like dadada and frozen ray is like da da da

then in anubis(expert)are the fast triplet
s towards the end

iono how to explain it really, but that is pretty simple to understand

just play the songs on stepmania on auto play and tick assist and you will see...k thnx
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videoCWK! · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:45 pm Post subject:

I never got triplets either, even though I've had it explained a few times. Although, I've never really noticed any problems with any of the songs that people say have triplets.

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Evil_pied · Trick Member Joined: 03 Jun 2006

Simply three notes in the place of two but, taking up the same amount of time as the two notes would have.

mtwieg · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 11:50 pm Post subject:

A triplet is a note that takes up two thirds of an eigth note (so three triplets equal the value of one quarter notes).

A sextuplet is a note taking up two thirds the duration of a sixteenth note, so it has half the value as a triplet (six sextuplets in a quarter note).
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0rion · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:50 am Post subject:

I'll try to explain this as clearly as I can, so bear with me... I haven't done this since I was tutoring some symphonic band students years ago.

First, tap out a regular quarter note beat. Just think "1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4..." as you do it. These are quarter notes, a.k.a. the red steps.

Now, while still counting off the quarter notes in your head, double the amount of taps. So, now you're tapping eight times in every measure, and at twice the speed you're counting. These are eighth notes, represented in blue.

So now, if you tap four times for every number you count off, these are sixteenth notes, represented by green arrows on ITG.

And finally, if you tap three beats for every number you count off, those are triplets, which is what you're asking about.

And the difference between the thriplets and, say, the three arrow sets on Frozen Ray is that there is only space enough for the three beats if you're counting triplets. In Frozen Ray, you could add in one more step to make it an even 2 beats of eighth notes.

Of course, this is still kinda hard to explain in words, so if you want, I could give an audio demonstration. It'll be clearer; it'd just sound somewhat silly.
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Kaku · Trick Member Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Location: Surrey, BC

A good place to figure out what triplets are is the last slowdown of VerTex expert. All those purple notes after the freeze part of the slowdown are triplets pretty much.
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SillyB · Trick Member Joined: 21 Jun 2006

Basically just count how many times you can fit the note into a bar. Four quarter notes (red arrows) can fit in a bar, eight eighth notes (blue arrows) can fit in a bar.

Twelve twelfth notes can fit in one bar. For example, the Jacks in Zodiac.
Tenwty-four twenty-fourth notes can fit into one bar. For example, the run in Determinator.

I can't really think of a song with forty-eighth notes.

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Dakota · Trick Member Joined: 28 Feb 2006

TAP TAP TAP

Paranoia KCET has em
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Oops, I made a typo.

I accidently meant to type "the ending of Max 300."
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Barbaloot · Trick Member Joined: 31 May 2005

...which also doesn't have triplets - the purple note falls exactly on a 16th, and the middle tap falls exactly halfway between the other two. Consecutive taps are 5/32 of a measure apart, making them slightly faster than triplets (equivalent to 240 BPM 8th note taps, as opposed to 225 BPM 8ths).

Several songs in DDR, such as Burning Heat, have triplets, but if you want true, perfectly-synched triplets, you'll have to look to ITG.
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Dakota · Trick Member Joined: 28 Feb 2006

Hmmm. Didn't think of that. Well, if we want to get REALLY technical, we can relate it to music. Music triplets are defined as things that sound like saying "Elephant." What didder song has that...

Ordinary world? Intro to Sweet Sweet <3 Magic?
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Tyrgannus · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:36 pm Post subject:

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No seriously, this answer is helpful

It is the Webster Definition of triplets.

Well, that and jazz, but most people hear blindly hate jazz for no good reason (jazz is awesome)
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