I'm guessing groups of 6 beats in 4 counts and 5 beats in 4 counts... ?
Everyone aware of these? I have to admit, I'd never heard of them before but someone
on another board is adamant they exist. I thought he was referring to sextuplets and quintupets. Can anyone shed some light on exactly how these work? I googled and there are references to these but explanations are somewhat confused and vague. One site said there isn't specifically a sixlet but went on to sort of explain what it is.
I'm guessing groups of 6 beats in 4 counts and 5 beats in 4 counts... ?
they are definetely not a note value....as chris said, they could be a name for groupings of notes...or maybe this guy has them conufsed with quintuplets etc
In my experience, they're the same thing. Sevenlet, ninelet also. Its just a different way to refer to it. I think "6 over 4" or "5 over 4" would be called just that "X over 4".
When was in DCI and Drumlines in the early '90's, more and more guys started using those terms, just a product of the then-burgeoning culture of modern rudimental drumming. And since most of those guys grew up to play drum set, it crossed over.
Or maybe, its a secret term that I'm not cool enough to know.
This started because this guy mentioned paradiddle-diddles as being cool to play as sixlets. He said 'there is such a thing as a sixlet. aka 6 over 2'
Isn't 6 over 2 a sextuplet?
quintuplets or sextuplets, from what i had gathered so far...were groups of 5 (quintuplets) played in 1 beat.
whilst sextuplets were a group of 6 played in one beat (like a 16th note triplet)
Yeah I know what sextuplets and quintuplets are [img]tongue.gif[/img] Just not sure if this guy is referring to the same things or whether he means some other grouping, he's kind of vague. But 6:2 suggests to me that it's the same as a sextuplet. There's hardly anything about sixlets on the net so I'm wondering how common the term is or how much it's used. Seems to be used in drumline circles from what I can see. But he said he doesn't know any musicians who don't know what sixlets, fivelets, etc are. My intial thoughts were that there were people who were incorrectly calling sextuplets as sixlets, but it seems to be a valid name.
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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sorry greasleg, missed your post. So it seems they are the same thing.Originally posted by Greaseleg:
In my experience, they're the same thing. Sevenlet, ninelet also. Its just a different way to refer to it. I think "6 over 4" or "5 over 4" would be called just that "X over 4".
When was in DCI and Drumlines in the early '90's, more and more guys started using those terms, just a product of the then-burgeoning culture of modern rudimental drumming. And since most of those guys grew up to play drum set, it crossed over.
Or maybe, its a secret term that I'm not cool enough to know.
Greaseleg is right.
Cool. But if a sixlet is the same as a sextuplet, and a sextuplet is 6 over 2 ( ie,
six 1/16th notes in the space of 2 normal 1/8th notes), what is the 6 over 4 that greaseleg mentioned? Or am I getting my maths wrong?
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