Ok. Three, Four.
Typically three, four is a lazier sound.
Most of the time you are not going to play sixteenth note groupings you're going to play eighth note groupings but you are also going to use
something called an eighth note triplet quite a bit which I'll explain in just a second.
A three, four sound is going to be like this.
One, Two, Three. One, Two, Three. One, Two, Three. One, Two, Three.
A lot of times three, four can tend to be slightly faster than a four, four groove but it really just depends.
Eighth notes in a three, four grouping are going to sound like this.
One and Two and Three and One and Two and Three and One and Two and Three and One and Two and Three.
So this is where you get that kind of:
Sound.
Here are some basic strumming ideas in three, four.
The first one I've already been playing and that's just straight quarter notes.
If we're going to add eighth notes to that it's going to sound like this and we're going to do upstrokes on our eighth notes.
One and Two, Three, One, Two, Three. One and Two, Three, One, Two, Three, One and Two, Three, One, Two, Three.
We could add an eighth note on the back end.
One, Two, Three and One, Two, Three and. (x 3)
We can add eighth notes the whole way.
One and Two and Three and One and Two and Three and One and Two and Three and.
Earlier I talked about an eighth note triplet and how that's fairly common in a three, four groove.
An eighth note triplet is going to subdivide the beat slightly differently.
That's going to be counted as One and uh.
Let me start the click track and I'll count it for you a little bit.
One and uh Two and uh Three and uh (x 3).
That's very different than doing a sixteenth note grouping and leaving out the ee because we're counting that the same but we have a group of four
notes that we're spreading across the beat as compared to a group of three strums or three notes that we are stringing across the beat.
Let me play both so you get the idea. I'm just going to play one beat.
I muted the ee. I did not play the ee.
On an eighth note triplet it's going to be constant .
Each one of those three notes are equally distant from each other so there is no pause.
One and uh Two and uh Three and uh (x 3).
Typically we're going to strum these as down, up, down, down, up, down, down, up, down.
Let's hear what that sounds like just strummed constantly over our G chord to a click track.
So that's constant eighth note triplets in three, four.
We can add these really anywhere we want.
One of my favorite things to do is to add a regular group of eighth notes followed by a group of eighth note triplets
followed by a group of eighth notes.
So that would be one and two and uh three and one.
One and two and uh three and one. one and two and uh three and one.
Kind of a weird sound but when played to the click it sounds kind of cool.
There's some basic ideas in three, four.