Help with All District audition music. What's this note?

**Zetsumei** · 12-07-2007, 04:13 PM

Snare:

Snare(Cont.):

Timpani:

The Current Main Problem:

If someone can show me or tell me some way to play these guys(The ones in the middle of the three with the decrescendo) that'd help a lot.

**SkyhawkDrummer** · 12-07-2007, 05:27 PM

i cant see the images.

**Zetsumei** · 12-07-2007, 05:28 PM

You have to click the links. The images are too big to post apparently...

***Edit***
Look it let me post finally -_-

**su_admin** · 12-08-2007, 08:29 AM

There was a system error. The pics are posting now.

**Church Drummer** · 12-08-2007, 09:18 AM

The triplet figures with the four notes in them, are 1/8 note tripplets, but the first 1/8 note is devided up into two 1/16th notes. So if you use the sylables trip-ple-let to count on beat you play two notes when you say Trip- and then on note for the sylable ple- and one note for the syllable -let.. Hope that answers your question and you understand my explanation. It would be easier if I could just play it for you. The sticking I would probably use for each tripplelet figure would be r-r-L-R (small letters represent the two 1/16th notes)

Shazane · 12-08-2007, 12:30 PM

Those look similar to swiss army triplets, a triplet with a flam in place of the first 8th note, only they aren't annotated as using a flam so it must have more space in between those 16th notes, it would probably be best to use a double stroke for the 16ths, accenting the first hit, that way it wouldn't even disrupt the typical execution of a triplet. Hmm, in a way it also sort of functions as a paradiddle with a change in spacing, like the way I'd play one at a high tempo, but I cannot remember how to read tempo on here so I don't know if anything I'm saying is even applicable. Someone who actively plays from sheet music can give you better advice.

Also, TIMPANI, that takes me back.

**drummer** · 12-08-2007, 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by Church Drummer

The sticking I would probably use for each tripplelet figure would be r-r-L-R (small letters represent the two 1/16th notes)

And of course that depends on:

How fast the song is
What your individual preference is
What the band director wants you to play. Sometimes they have a preference.

I agree, it would be easier if you could just hear someone play it.

**Zetsumei** · 12-08-2007, 03:07 PM

Well I won't see the Percussion teacher til Monday in 1st hour, and I'll ask him to clear it up for me. I was thinking something along the same lines as Church Drummer. The rr LR thing should work too. I'm just trying to get a lot of it down now.

P.S. Thanks for that SU Admin, I was trying to figure out what the heck was going on.

**Roger** · 12-09-2007, 08:22 AM

Wow that Timpani part looks fun.

**Zetsumei** · 12-12-2007, 02:28 PM

Yeah the Timpani part is pretty fun, and I figured out what the notes where. I've got the piece down now pretty much. Now I just gotta play it on Monday for my Percussion Final, then in January at the audition.

**Zajn** · 12-13-2007, 12:19 AM

Long time no post for me...

This is probably coming in a little late, but who knows, maybe it'll help anyways? The way I would try to explain that to someone is to think of it as the first part of a sextuplet. Or, think of it as a group of eighth notes in 6/8 time. I personally find easier to think of those triplets in 6/8, as if they were: 1 + 2 3. It would be played exactly the same if the tempo was adjusted for 6/8 and the triplet notation was removed.

Hope that didn't further confusion!