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Unless indicated otherwise, a quarter note will be equal to two eighth notes, which means that two eighth notes (equal to each other in duration) can take the place of any quarter note. Three eighth notes of equal duration (and shorter than regular eighths by a third) taking the place of a quarter note make up a triplet. A triplet can also be three eighths, for example, playing against 2 eighths. You can have triplets of any kind of note, but you are likely to see eighth note and quarter note triplets most frequently. The idea seems simple, but when you embed voices playing triplets against accompaniments of varying complexity, triplets can be challenging to perform.

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