In music a tuplet is any consecutive group of notes with an individual value more or less than half as long as the next larger note value. The most common tuplet is the triplet. The split stroke is a style of playing the ukulele which is peculiar to the 'George Formby' style of playing. It is a syncopated rhythm where the player will strike all of the strings, and then on the return, catch the first string, and then before starting again hit the last string. The name 'split' comes from the timing with which the stroke is most commonly used; being 'split-common' time (2/2). Variations on the split stroke include the shake, which, in essence, is playing the split very fast, without lifting the playing finger away from the vellum, thus creating a shaking sound in between the accented beats of the rhythm. Also, there is another stroke called the circle, which was the original syncopated stroke for the ukulele, and was firsst introduced by Alvin Keech, who is the person credited with having intruduced ukulele-banjos. |
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