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Niggamario (talk | contribs) Created page with "A '''quintuplet''' (or a five-tuplet) is a tuplet consisting of five notes of equal length, typically used against 4 beats as a 5:4 polyrhythm. It’s regarded as the second building block when learning polyrhythms right after 3:2. thumb|A sixteenth-note quintuplet It’s also the basis of quintuplet swing, where the main grid is subdivided into quintuplets and the swing percentage becomes 60%. The most notable example of..." |
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There are a lot of microrhythmic possibilities regarding quintuplets, as displayed by a [[jt25k]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQIaXR6OE-Q Fizz remix], where the second quintuplet in the 5:2 is slightly late. | There are a lot of microrhythmic possibilities regarding quintuplets, as displayed by a [[jt25k]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQIaXR6OE-Q Fizz remix], where the second quintuplet in the 5:2 is slightly late. | ||
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A quintuplet (or a five-tuplet) is a tuplet consisting of five notes of equal length, typically used against 4 beats as a 5:4 polyrhythm. It’s regarded as the second building block when learning polyrhythms right after 3:2.

It’s also the basis of quintuplet swing, where the main grid is subdivided into quintuplets and the swing percentage becomes 60%. The most notable example of this swing pattern is Sequence Start by Sungazer.
There are a lot of microrhythmic possibilities regarding quintuplets, as displayed by a jt25k Fizz remix, where the second quintuplet in the 5:2 is slightly late.