If you aren't sure how a quintuplet should feel or sound, here's an idea using two metronomes: You can set your metronome to click at the tempo of 8ths or even 16ths. This may help you count it in a more familiar manner. 32nds become 16ths, 16ths become 8ths, 8ths become quarters. One method for learning complex rhythms is to elevate the level of subdivision. Make sure all articulations within a beat are equal the five-let will move more quickly than the thirty-second notes, but make sure you don't rush and finish your group of five early! I recommend putting a metronome on and making sure you can quickly switch between 'hippotomas' and the thirty-second notes. This is made even more difficult by the fact that the next grouping is just regular thirty-second notes. This, in addition to the opening E, results in the following rhythm: This means that the rest will take up two portions of the tuplet the three thirty-second notes thus take up the 'pot-a-mus' part of the beat. On that first grouping, notice that it's a thirty-second-note tuplet preceded by a sixteenth-note rest. But for the actual answer.)įor five-lets, I recommend thinking 'hip-po-pot-a-mus' throughout the beat. (Before I say anything: is this an official transcription? I don't see any reason why you can't view the left hand as straight thirty-second notes and skip the five-let altogether.

How to count 32nd notes piano