Guitar 101 - Mastering Rhythm & Syncopation, Part 4

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Guitar 101 Lesson D - Mastering Rhythm & Syncopation Part 4: More Fun with Triplets and Hemiola

This section of the Guitar 101 series of lessons is divided into five parts to give you the best possible grounding in the basics of guitar playing.

These introductory parts will cover the following components of Mastering Rhythm and Syncopation:

Part 1 - Whole, Half, Quarter and Eighth Notes

Part 2 - 16th Notes, Rests and Dotted Rhythms

Part 3 - Triplets and Hemiola

Part 4 - More Fun With Triplets and Hemiola

Part 5 - Quintuplets and Nightmare Licks

In part 3 we learned how to count and play eighth-note triplets (three evenly-spaced notes per beat). We also learned how to use a rhythmic device called hemiola to create ear-tickling syncopation effects. As you recall, we took a short, repeating pattern of eighth notes and made it sound more interesting and quirky by changing the rhythm to eighth-note triplets. Doing this caused the pattern to begin at a different place in the measure each time it's repeated (rhythmic displacement). We then used this same approach to transform a repeating pattern of four 16th notes into a psychedelic, circular lick by again changing the rhythm to eighth-note triplets. In this lesson I'm going to show you more slick hemiola tricks that will help expand your phrasing vocabulary and bolster your rhythmic skills at the same time. But first we need to cover two more commonly used triplet rhythms.

You can enjoy the rest of this lesson and access the related tabs and audio files at Guitar World Magazine - Guitar 101.

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