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Most of us know how to play a repeated 3 note pattern against 16th notes. A ton of examples in many popular solos, riffs, licks. Also, most of us can nail starting at point A on beat 1 and end up at point B on beat 2 with an odd number of notes in between.
However, I was looking at GW and I saw Zakk Wylde's column where he was going over one of his licks. He was playing 5 to a beat (quintuplets), but the pattern had 4 notes. So every time the pattern would start on a different 1/5th of the beat.
First question. What's the best way of working a lick like that out?
Second question (or maybe just an expression of frustration). I'll eventually be able to work it out, but it will take me many hours of both physical AND mental work. Do you think when Zakk plays a lick like that, he's thinking, "hey, I'm going to play a 4 note pattern on top of quintuplets" or is he just going off naturally and that's just how the notes fall out naturally? Is it more of a feel thing or is it more of a mental subdivide-the-beat-and-count thing?
However, I was looking at GW and I saw Zakk Wylde's column where he was going over one of his licks. He was playing 5 to a beat (quintuplets), but the pattern had 4 notes. So every time the pattern would start on a different 1/5th of the beat.
First question. What's the best way of working a lick like that out?
Second question (or maybe just an expression of frustration). I'll eventually be able to work it out, but it will take me many hours of both physical AND mental work. Do you think when Zakk plays a lick like that, he's thinking, "hey, I'm going to play a 4 note pattern on top of quintuplets" or is he just going off naturally and that's just how the notes fall out naturally? Is it more of a feel thing or is it more of a mental subdivide-the-beat-and-count thing?
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