Alegrias chording compas between falsettas in "triplet" 9/8 time...

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Kiko_Roca

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Joined: Apr. 25 2016
From: Midwest, USA

Alegrias chording compas between fal...

I recently went hunting through my material for alegrias falsettas in C, and found a series of them that I like in the volume 2 of Graf-Martinez tutorial books.

Each is about 4-6 compasses long, and my concern is that they don't quite sound right back to back - yet when I stick my usual chording rhythm between them (mostly 8th/16th notes) the change of pace seems a little odd or "out of place", even if I end with a run of triplets to get back into it.

So how would you go about approaching chording breaks in between shorter melodic falsettas that are entirely in triplets?

Edit: I wish I had an audio example of what I mean, but if you are not familiar with this book/method, they are very legato tripplets with a lot of pull-on/off action - if that helps at all I am not sure.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 6 2016 14:36:19

Ricardo

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RE: Alegrias chording compas between... (in reply to Kiko_Roca)

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ORIGINAL: Kiko_Roca

I recently went hunting through my material for alegrias falsettas in C, and found a series of them that I like in the volume 2 of Graf-Martinez tutorial books.

Each is about 4-6 compasses long, and my concern is that they don't quite sound right back to back - yet when I stick my usual chording rhythm between them (mostly 8th/16th notes) the change of pace seems a little odd or "out of place", even if I end with a run of triplets to get back into it.

So how would you go about approaching chording breaks in between shorter melodic falsettas that are entirely in triplets?

Edit: I wish I had an audio example of what I mean, but if you are not familiar with this book/method, they are very legato tripplets with a lot of pull-on/off action - if that helps at all I am not sure.

Put some swing on the eighth notes when strumming or playing the normal compas phrase. By swing, I mean delay the up strokes a hair.

. PS...change your topic title to 9/8 please!

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Kiko_Roca

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Joined: Apr. 25 2016
From: Midwest, USA

RE: Alegrias chording compas between... (in reply to Ricardo)

Thanks for the suggestion. That makes good sense. I'll give that a try and see how it goes.

>> PS...change your topic title to 9/8 please!

Ooops... You should see me try to count to twelve.