[BLANK_AUDIO] We can, of course, divide our rhythms into subdivisions of three, five, seven, etc. These are generally referred to as tuplets, and could be any arbitrary division of a note. But the most common are, in fact, triplets. There are, as you might imagine, three triplet quavers or eighth notes to a quarter note. Three in the time of two. Or three triplet quarter notes to a half note. Any basic rhythm can be subdivided in this manner. So, if I've got a beat that goes at this speed. [SOUND] That would be quarter notes, and triplets would be one two three, one two three, one two three, one two three, one two three, one two three. As mentioned, we can have other subdivisions, for instance, quintuplets. So for example, I could divide a minim or a half note into five quintuplet eighth notes. That would go something like this. [SOUND] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Tuplets are generally notated in the simplest fashion, by putting a number over a beam as in the triplet quaver, or eighth notes that we've already seen. The three there implicitly means three in the time of two. So whereas crotchet or a quarter note would usually be divided in two quavers or eighth notes, by putting the three above three quavers, we indicate that we want these three triplet eighths to be in the time of two. We can also use brackets with numbers, if we have notes that we don't have flags or beams for. So to create triplet quarter notes, we would normally use the bracket to group the three notes we want played in the time of two. And if it's not obvious how many short notes we want in the time of how many longer notes, we could explicitly write proportions, such as four to three. [BLANK_AUDIO]