Re: Another Newbee
Welcome to DC Dominic, hope you're find playing on an electronic kit as fun as an acoustic one (I certainly do, I started with and still play acoustic drums, but I also have a helluva lot of fun with electronic drums and percussion as well. Very handy for practice and teaching here at home, especially late at night!)
Ok, one thing I'll share with you, the "classical definition" of 16th notes isn't hemidemisemiquavers.....I'm afraid your guitarist mate put too many prefixes in that word there, hehe. It's semiquavers. Here's a table of note 'subdivisions' with the various classical terms and their numerical equivalents, which us drummers and percussionists tend to use. (I'm familiar with these as I often have kids come in from school and say that their teachers prefer them to use the classical terms, rather than what we use when I'm discussing drumming with them.....why??? Your guess is as good as mine, lol.)
Some you'll already know:
semibreve: whole note
minum: half note
crotchet: quarter note
quaver: eighth note
semiquaver: sixteenth note
demisemiquaver: thirtysecond note
hemidemisemiquaver: sixtyfourth note
Other names, such as triplets, quintuplets, sextuplets and septuplets, are common to both notation systems.
Just my two cents worth. Cheers.
Last edited by Drumbledore; 04-03-2013 at 11:31 AM.
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