Who here knows about music theory?
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Starcrossed · 41-45, F
They're called tuplet.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuplet
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A triplet is a rhythm playing three notes in the space of two. That is, three evenly spaced notes in the space of two notes of the same rhythmic value. The most common example is the 8th note triplet. An eighth note triplet rhythm is 3 notes played in the space of 2 eighth notes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuplet
IE
A triplet is a rhythm playing three notes in the space of two. That is, three evenly spaced notes in the space of two notes of the same rhythmic value. The most common example is the 8th note triplet. An eighth note triplet rhythm is 3 notes played in the space of 2 eighth notes.
@Starcrossed You can compress, so to speak, notes like that but I still don’t believe they devide into thirds. Unless it’s some advanced theory that I don’t know about.
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@Starcrossed This is not what he's talking about. I don't know if you copy pasted it, if you know music theory or not but in extremely simple words a triplet is three notes (of equal duration) played in one beat. He asked why we can't divide a whole note (4 beats) into equal thirds. The simplest answer to which seems to be you don't cause how are you gonna count? 1, 2, 1.3333333....
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@JustGoneNow Exactly. That's why we end we a half note, a quarter, an eighth etc.