The press and other sources,he notes, speculated that the sentence could have been seven years or more, so three years is not all that bad.

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So you can hear, the triplet being inserted, so a triplet is simply insertion of three notes in the place of two, not more complicated than that.

大家听到,插入了三连音,三连音只是简单地,在原来两个音符的位置上换成三个音,没有更复杂的概念了

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It adds fifty percent or a half to that and that means instead of two quarter notes that we now have three and we can do the same thing to any one of these other values here and that's how we get our triple relationships.

加上了百分之五十或者说一半的原音符值,这意味着除了有两个四分音符,我们现在有三个了,我们也可以在其他这些音符值后加上附点,这就是我们如何做到三倍形式的安排的

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