Well, if that what everyone calls a triplet, it's just a few fast notes in combination with a bellows change. The 5,6,7 buttons are tailor made for this. If not mistaken, I think that video by Wilson Savoy may delve into that some.
Triplets are three notes replacing one in a waltz usually but also in 4/4 time. In a waltz = 3/4 time, 1-2-3 becomes 123-123-123 where the note is divided into three parts. It is that great bunch of licks that makes Cajun accordion sound so friggin' cool in the hands of a skilled player. Yeah, I'm a bit mystified myself. Ray Abshire is a whiz at playing them.
9 minutes is a lot of time in this modern age. I'm not patient enough for this.
I would say triplet is a group of three small notes that you can sing as "diddely".
For instance in a waltz: /daaa daaa diddely/daaa daaa diddely/ etc:
The last beats in this case are triplets.
I think/hope this explains it all. No notation needed.
Well done Peer Thanks
Is this how it is in a two step daaa diddely/daaa diddely ?
In the video and also on other sites a triplet is playing three notes in the same time as two notes.
I think I do them the same way as you wrote
If you count three notes in a measure (in a waltz), I'd say the triplet covers one count/beat , be it the first, second or third.
In a blues the same thing; if you count two beats a measure, it also covers one beat.
In a twostep triplets are very rare and fancy, and more a kind of embellishment.
The best example ever of playing triplets is in Chris' lesson of Love Bridge Waltz. That really opened my eyes. (my ears in this case)
My version of Blacktop Blues on YT is pure crap , but it shows more or less how a triplet in a blues works.
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I'm afraid I have to correct myself here.
A triplet is a group of three short notes. That's correct.
But I just realized that you can distinguish two kinds of triplets.
The one that I mentioned (the diddely), but there's also also a short triplet, that is being used as an embellishment.
The short one doestn't fit "diddely" at all, because it's too fast for that. You hear them all the time, especially in waltzes.
Music is mathematics. You might stretch it like taffy but it is all coherent to the time. A triplet is three notes in place of one, period. How you play these notes might make them sound different but the principle is still the same.
I only know this from studying an endless stream of music theory when I first started playing the pedal steel guitar circa 1972. Those suckers will get your eddicachun of all things musical up and running in a hurry...
So - y'all can use computers but find the idea of three notes played in one beat rather than two notes played in one beat something about diddling. Outstanding.