I want to talk to you about muting. Since we've all ready gone over long and short notes. Legato notes, long notes, staccato notes, shorter notes. We're going to use the two extremes. We talked about all the dynamics and the spectrum, and how much muting you can use. We're going to play muted and unmuted notes. You'll notice for this I'm using the thumb holding technique just so that I have a little more control over the muting and can play it a little more musically. Here's the black and white, here's your open notes or your long notes, and your closed notes, or your short notes. I want to go over a couple different segments, a couple different popular rhythms you can play on the triangle. One of them is going to be a long, short, short, or open closed, closed. We're going to play the long notes twice as long as the shorter notes. You get something like this. You could also flip those two around. Short, short, long, short, short, long. Now you can also indicate the feel of the song whether its in straight time, whether it's in swung time. So here's that same pattern but we're going to put a swing to it to make it sound like a jazz ride pattern, using your muting, playing long and short notes on the triangle.
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