Quintuplets

Hey Everyone,

I just joined the site a few days ago and I'm really enjoying the community and all the lessons on here. I've really cleared up many of the things I've had trouble understanding in theory and with technique.

One thing I've really had trouble gaining a grasp on are odd note groupings such as "quintuplets." I understand triplets and use them often, but triplets are easy for me because the second note of the three note grouping is simply off beat. I also use little counting phrases such as saying "1-e-and-a" for 16th notes or "tri-pl-et" during triplet rhythms. Being able to have some kind of guide line like that helps me when first learning a new type of grouping. Quintuplets and "tuplets" in general have caused me confusion because of how they have to be played evenly inside of a smaller note grouping.

My question is does anyone here use a counting method during quintuplets? I've tried the concept of just listening to music that uses quintuplets to just get a feel for them, but I'm not really consistent on my timings and I like to have some method I can fall back on to make sure I'm staying in time such as a way of counting them in my head. I'm trying to learn them because there comes in a time in writing music when using eight note triplets is too slow and sixteenth note triplets are too fast (same goes for 16th and 32nd notes). Plus the more tricks you know the more interesting the music right



Any help would be great and I'd like to know any methods anyone has used to learn these irregular groupings.


Thanks