There’s More to Playing the Piano
Chapter 19 - Tuplets
A tuplet is an irregular subdivision of the beat into equal portions. The most common kind is the triplet where a beat of music in simple time is subdivided into three. Tuplets can be any irregular number of notes (the regular numbers being 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 etc.). Tuplets normally result in slightly faster notes. The exception to this is the duplet. A duplet is usually a pair of quavers taking the time of three quavers in compound time. At the...
