Re: Anyone study Intermediate Cajun Accordion by Steve Riley?
Hi, Tommy.
I don't recall many triplets on the Riley Intermediate DVD. In fact, Steve Riley doesn't play a lot of triplets. One fellow who does, Steve's cousin, is Wilson Savoy. Wilson has a DVD "Wilson Savoy, Cajun Rhythm and Improvisation" available on his website http://www.almenapictures.com/. Chapter 2 is devoted entirely to triplets.
FYI Steve Riley explained a triplet to me as 3 notes spanning one beat, using two adjacent buttons both on the same push or pull, with the 3rd note played with a bellows reversal on the 2nd button. I was taught that any 3 notes in one beat made a triplet, but the Cajun accordion definition seems to require the bellows reversal.
Learning to play a triplet is one thing, but learning where a triplet fits is yet another.
For usage of the triplet, there is no better example than Marc Savoy who plays them profusely. Pick a song - any song he plays - and it will have 'em.
Re: Anyone study Intermediate Cajun Accordion by Steve Riley?
mmm ... I don't know triplets is the right word! That's just how I call them. But there might be another term for that. Anyway: in Cajun waltzes and blues I think this is an essential ingredient to tweak tunes and songs.