Every musician understands this principle: it requires longer to sing a half note than it does an eighth note.
In the transcription they are indicated by the usual musical symbol,—a small eighth note with a slanting stroke through the hook.
Notice how much difficulty this equal playing of the triplets occasions to the right hand, which moves in even eighth notes.
We have eighth notes, quarter notes, half notes, etc. Moreover, the signature of the music as indicated by the sharps or flats changes the whole situation.
You observe that often there are even eighth notes in the treble, while in the bass there are even triplet eighth notes.
Theeighthnote, or octave, is given the same name as the first, but has double its frequency.
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It normally plays aneighthnotepattern with some variation (e.g. a roll played instead of the first note of the phrase).
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In the beginning of the movement, the first violin plays a simple, elegant melody, while the viola and celli haveeighthnotepizzicato.
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It has rhythmic complexity; in the first four measures half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes,eighthnotetriplets and sixteenth notes are all encountered.
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In the second section, a second instrument is added to the tape in a second channel, offset by oneeighthnotefrom the first recorded instrument.
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Most of the first movement is in sixteenth notes and the second movement is in eighth notes.
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A quantisation algorithm nudged each onset towards the closest quarter note,eighthnote, or quarter note triplet.
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The basic rhythmic unit is theeighthnote, and the rhythm is very steady and simple throughout this portion of the piece.
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It is a singing toy whose body is shaped like aneighthnote, with sound emerging from a mouth on the notehead.
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This dance style is also seen witheighthnotepolska in the border areas.
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Throughout this, the left hand is playing short, staccato accompanying quarter notes whereas the right, which was discussed above, is playingeighthnotetuplet.
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Most bars feature either a distinctive pattern of eleven sixteenth notes and a sixteenth rest, or ten sixteenth notes and a singleeighthnote.
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Often,eighthnotetriplets are mixed with sixteenth note runs in a single bar.
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Therefore, the underlying rhythmic grid to most jazz music is aneighthnotetriplet pattern.
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The piece has maracas playing a fasteighthnotepulse, while the four organs stress certain eighth notes using an 11th chord.
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