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Sounds like the opening lick of the solo for La Grange…hey, Griff…I’m a bit older than you…been playing Blues since the early 70’s…when are you going to teach us the opening section of Johnny Winters “Be Careful With A Fool”?

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Hey Griff, thanks for your lesson.

I find it easier to verbalise the septuplet as dibibi dibibi. If your foot is tapping the quarter note, then it’s easy to verbalise dibibi dibibi for triplet 16ths. (I find this easier than counting).

In your 7 bars of tab, dibibidibibi takes care of the septuplets in bars 1-3 and 5.

Dibibidibibi is part of the rhythmisation system. The vowel -i denotes a 16th value. The consonant d- means a down or strong event and the b-consonant means an up or weak event. So di is the strong event and bibi are the two weak events.
Hence dibibi dibibi.

The quarter note in bar 4 is a do. The o- vowel means a quarter note and the do means the strong quarter note (the first or third quarter note in the bar). The backbeats on 2 and 4 are denoted by bo. So a bar of quarter notes is dobodobo.

The quarter note rest is denoted by so. The s- consononant denotes a rest, the -o vowel denotes a quarter note. In rhythmisation so denotes a quarter note rest.

In bars four five and seven there are half note rests. A half note is denoted in rhythmisation by the u- vowel. Since these are half note rests, they are verbalised as su.

How would you verbalise the half note in bar seven? This is the strong half note in the bar so it takes a d- consonant, add it to the u- vowel for the half note and so you have du.

Bar 6 has new rhythms and new rhythmisations. The new value is the 8th note. This is indicated by the vowel -a. This 8th note happens on the up or the weak part of the beat so it takes a b- consonant. This 8th note is thus verbalied as ba.

The quarter note on the third beat, a strong beat, is verbalised as do.

The dotted quarter on beat one is verbalised as doa. The -a vowel is half the value of the -o vowel. Do is the quarter note. Half of do is da, so we have do + da. Tie them together by dropping the second consonant and we verbalise the dotted quarter as doa.

The four sixteenths on the fourth beat are verbalised as dibidibi: di are the strong 16th notes and bi are the weak ones. (Notice the difference between dibidibi and dibibidibibi)

Whew! Excuse this rhythm crash course. To summarise: -u vowel equals a half note, -o vowel equals a quarter note, -a vowel equals an eighth note, -i vowel equals a sixteenth note. The d- consonant precedes a strong vowel, the b- consonant precedes a weak vowel and the s- precedes a silent vowel or resting vowel.

For more info about this system, just google or youtube rhythmisation.

Let me wrap this up by verbalising in full, the rhythms as written in the attached pdf chart.

dibibidibibi dibibidibibi dibibidibibi dibibidibibi
dibibidibibi dibibidibibi dibibidibibi dibibidibibi
dibibidibibi dibibidibibi dibibidibibi dibibidibibi
do so su
su dibibidibibi dibibidibibi
doaba do dibidibi
du su

When verbalising rhythm, make sure you say the vowel for their full, correct, relative durations.

Hope this complements what you say Griff about the importance of saying the rhythm out loud. Amen to that.

I count sextuplets as “one and uh triple it”. Easy to vocalise and keeps track of the count.

Nice thanks for sharing . Did Your wife give You that Les Paul. I could help noticing that Laura is on the neck.