Rhythmic Phrases I : Dotted Rhythms

Right, now we’re going to look at some dotted rhythms. It’s a little bit difficult to be precise about when you take fingers off when you’ve got rests. But the first of these, number eleven is 1,2,3,off. Whereas twelve is 1,2,3,4,off it’s on the off of the &, 4&, that’s when it comes off. Similarly 13 1&2off, 1&2off. Fourteen, dugga, dugga - you only play the du and the final ga. durda, durda, durda, durda. Fifteen is very pretty because you can hardly tell the difference between whether it was a quaver rest or a semi-quaver rest, but dugga, dugga, dugga, dugga, dah, dah, dah, dah.

Sixteen if you count 1&, 2&, 3&, 4& dadah, dah, da dadah, dah, da Seventeen dugga, dugga, dugga, it’s just the dugga, dugga, dugga, dugga, dugga. Eighteen it’s just the ga, ga, ga, ga, ga. Nineteen is on the & 1&, 2 .. 1 1&, 2&, 3&, 4& Twenty - come in on the &, and you take it off on the first beat of the next bar. Let’s have a go. 1,2,3,off. 1,2,3,off. 1,2,3,4&. 1,2,3,4&. Thirteen 1,2&,3,4&. 1,2&,3,4&. Fourteen

Seventeen, dugga.

Eighteen

Nineteen

3,4, 1&,2,3,4 Twenty 1&,2,3,4, 1,2,3,4. 1&,2,3,4, 1,2,3,4.