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[quote author=slime.oofytv.set link=board=faq;num=1036197324;start=15#17 date=12/23/04 at 20:59:42]<br>that shit's way over my head....any fz examples of what's he's talkin about ¿[hr]<br>that black page is pretty close with the 3-5-7, except the last part of the 7 is split into a 3 and a 1<br><br>3-5-7 tab:<br><br><br><br>[center][table][tr][td]7[/td][td].[/td][td].[/td][td].[/td][td].[/td][td]5[/td][td]7[/td][/tr][tr][td].[/td][td]5[/td][td].[/td][td].[/td][td]8[/td][td].[/td][td].[/td][td]6[/td][td]7[/td][td]3[/td][td]2[/td][td]5[/td][td][sub]/[/sub][/td][td]--[/td][td][sub]\[/sub][/td][/tr][tr][td].[/td][td].[/td][td]7[/td][td]5[/td][td].[/td][td].[/td][td].[/td][td].[/td][td].[/td][td].[/td][td].[/td][td].[/td][td]2[/td][td]0[/td][td]2[/td][td]4[/td][td]6[/td][/tr][/table][/center][/quote]<br><br>Hey slime, another good example of "groupings within groupings" is the very next bar (bar 5) after the one the citizen posted:<br><br>http://www.zappateers.com/photo.php?cat=39&num=7&expand=15,20<br><br>That's a bar of 4/4 time (ya know, when musicians count off a song at the begining: 1, 2, 3, 4). <br><br>The bar begins with a half-note.  This means you begin playing that sound on "1" and sustain it thru "2".  <br><br>But all hell breaks loose when you get to beat 3.  <br><br>The numeral "3" over all those dots indicates that one is to play a quarter-note triplet over beats "3" and "4" of the bar; that is, you are to space three beats evenly over the space of two beats. In other words, to play it accurately, you've gotta cram Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday into the space of Thursday and Friday.  To pull this off, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are gonna hafta be a little faster than usual (but no faster than each other).<br><br>Now, if'n that weren't difficult enough, FZ FURTHER subdivided each beat of the quarter note triplet into 2 groups of five and a group of six. <br><br>SO, within EACH of your speeded-up Monday and Tuesday, you've gotta cram ANOTHER M-F!  Then, when you get to your speeded up Wednesday, you've gotta cram M-S into that space, and you've gotta make sure they are a LITTLE faster than the M-F you crammed into Monday and Tuesday (since you've gotta get Saturday in there too)!<br><br>Writing that stuff is trick enough, but to IMPROVISE groupings like that is not of this earth.  Check out the Guitar book scans to see stuff like this that he made up on the spot.<br><br>vcf

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