Last week I received more e-mails requesting PDFs than I have in a long time. It seems many of you really enjoyed the various Elvin inspired exercises. I've been enjoying them too, so I kept going with them.
This time around I've taken the quarter note triplet exercises, and experimented with playing groupings of four notes. Because there are only three notes in the bar, the four note phrases will roll over the barline, and resolves tidily after four bars.
Starting on the beat looks like this:
While starting on the second note looks like this:
Bill Stewart does this quite often to great effect. You can see one example of it here on the blog in the transcription of "Metamorphosis".
Adding this variable to the mix means that the possibilities are pretty much endless in terms of voicings, but I came up with three simple ideas to get you started.
2&2
Pick any two voices, and play two of each: SSBB; HHSS; BBHH, etc.
AABA
Pick any two voices and treat one as A and one as B: BBSB; SSBS; HHSH, etc.
ABAC
Use all three voices and treat one as A, one as B, and one as C: BSBH; SHSB; HBHS, etc.
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