"What-Tuplets?"
This is an excerpt from my Classic Rock Guitar Unleashed course. It is not the whole solo example, I wanted to demonstrate the sextuplets for you and I pulled one of the licks out so you can try it for yourself in a lick.
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23 Comments
Neil
March 25, 2017Sounds very Gary Moore/ Thin Lizzy late 1970’s/early 80’s – Jailbreak – Love it.
Graham
March 26, 2017Hi Griff
Great stuff.My wife has just bought me Classicrockunleashed for my birthday.
I can’t wait to get started on it.
Graham UK
PAUL
June 30, 2017BEEN TO MANY PINK FLOYD CONCERTS IN THE LATE 70’S AND LAST SHOW WAS IN 1981. SOUNDS LIKE JAILBREAK. I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED DAVIDS’S STYLE OF PLAYING. I CAN PLAY THE WHOLE SOLO TOO MONEY. A LOT OF HIS SOLOS ARE IN A BLUES SCALE. MONEY HAS A LOT OF BENDS AND PULL OFFS. HE GETS MOST OF HIS SOUND FROM BENDS AND TREWELS. LOVED THAT LICK. HE DOES A LOT OF BARRING ON THE FRET ON A FEW STRINGS ACROSS THE NECK WHEN HE SOLOS. THANKS GRIFF! BROTHER, I HAVE ALL YOUR EMAILS INA FOLDER AND USE THEM WHEN I’M FEELING DOWN AND OUT OF CONDITION..
PAUL
January 9, 2019VERY EASY! DAVID GILMORE USES A BIT OF DELAY AND PLATE REVERB. SOUNDED CLOSE TO HIS SOUND.
THE BAR ON E REMINDS ME OF THE INTRO TO MONEY.
THAT SOLO IN MONEY, HE USES ALOT OF BENDS AND PULLOFFS. TOOK ME 2 MONTHS TO GET CLOSE TO HOW HE PLAYS HIS SOLO FOR MONEY.
GREAT LICKS THERE GRIFF. THANK YOU.
PAUL DRAGOTTO
January 13, 2021VERY NICE. PINK FLOYD IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE BANDS.
I LEARNED THE SOLO TO COMFORTABLY KNUMB FROM YOU TUBE AND WATCHING DAVID PLAY IT LIVE. ALSO, WISH YOU WERE HERE, UNPLUGED. USE MY LOOPER FOR THE CHORDS AND ABLE TO DO THE INTRO SOLO.. MONEY, I HAVE NEEN LEARNING SONGS WITH THE CHORS AND BY EAR. THANKS GRIFF, REALY LIKED THIS ONE.
Dave
March 25, 2017always good stuff to learn!!
Rick
March 25, 2017Man! I wish this stuff had been around 30 years ago !! It’s a little too late for me now. I’m going to have to stick with one thing to get my head around and right now that’s the blues. I love watching these lessons through and pick up a few nuggets I can incorporate into what I’m doing. Thanks Griff. Keep em coming !
DaveyJoe
March 25, 2017Very cool Griff! Thank you.
PAUL
January 9, 2019RICK!! NEVER TO OLD BROTHER.
THE BAND I’M IN, WE ARE ALL IN OUR LATE 60’S AND THIS STILL HELPS JUST SAY, I CAN DO THIS! PEACE AND KINDNEES. PASS IT ON!
DaveyJoe
March 25, 2017Definitely applicable to the Blues.
Mark Center
March 25, 2017Gotta get some moisture on that neck Griff. 🙂
John
March 25, 2017Griff: When I was playing clarinet, my teacher – who counted triplets as “1 – trip – let” rather than “1 – and – a” – used the count of “1 – a – trip – a – let – a” for the six count beat. Whatever works for you, right? Thanks for a great lesson.”
Doug
March 25, 2017Sounds 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”?
James
March 25, 2017‘In the day’ I spent hours trying to break down licks … thirty years laterr… your explanations & videos are golden and a fabulous resource for my son! Thanks Griff
Don
March 25, 2017Just ordered your new course ,and I’m glad to support your product because of the quality of the education ! U have really helped me growing as a guitar player . It doesn’t matter to me blues , rock , R&B rockabilly ,soul ,country …..I just want play the guitar ….. I try to apply everything I learn from your courses and lessons you send to all of us …. Just wanted to say thanks !!!! Nice job 🎶👍
Jeffrey
March 26, 2017Griff
Some new to learn! The six tublet’s really eat up the notes. But it sounds great though! Wouldn’t want to have to play to many measures of that!
Osvaldo Palatini
March 26, 2017Too late for the offre price of rock guitar?
Please let me have a last chance right now
Thank you. Osvaldo palatini
tony
March 26, 2017i was waiting for this . Just want to see more before buying this course . Looking for yet more up beat music .
Taura Eruera
May 19, 2017Hey 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.
Paul wilson white
May 26, 2018Hi Griff.
I have all your courses and use them all as you know, I am always on the BGU forum.
Also pink floyd played together with roger waters there in 2005 at the live 8 concert the first time in 24 years as I was there right at the front.
Catch you on the forum keep up the good work
Karl Farren
January 11, 2019I count sextuplets as “one and uh triple it”. Easy to vocalise and keeps track of the count.
Dan Moores
January 27, 2019Great lick. Have I been reading tab upside down all these years? I looked at this tab as starting on the 4th string but you started on the 2nd. But confused but can still play it.
tony szydlo
March 6, 2020Nice thanks for sharing . Did Your wife give You that Les Paul. I could help noticing that Laura is on the neck.