The foot pattern here is the same one used in the Freddie Waits groove we covered the other day, you could do that page after learning this one.
Count in 2. Use exercise 3 if you have any problem with the timing of exercise 2— those two should sound identical. Learn the patterns as a sticking, but put your focus on the right hand, and on how it relates to the rhythm played with the feet. Use the optional foot patterns if you want. Better to just give this thing a quick once over and then get into the real stuff on the Freddie Waits page.
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Stupid question - when you say play in 2, do you mean 2/4 ?
Not a stupid question-- like 2/4, but not 2/4. In 6/8 the dotted quarter note gets the beat-- which gives us two counted beats per measure.
Essentially, 6/8 time = 2/[dotted quarter note].
But there's no easy way to write that in the usual #/# format, which is why they write it as 6/8. See my post Here's the deal with 6/8 time.
Thanks Todd, that all makes sense, although its still something I need to brush up on - so I might just have to contact to arrange some lessons at some point.
Sorry, just quickly, another question......
When its written out in 2/4, do you use triplets ?
No problem-- yes, the same thing written in 2/4 would need to be marked as triplets. You could convert all of these exercises to 2/4 adding a 3 above each beat of 8th notes, and whiting out the dots after the quarter notes-- so they're just regular quarter notes. And write in 2/4 as the time signature.
I'm happy to help out with lessons any time-- learning all of these fine points goes a lot faster with a teacher.
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