The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #100071   Message #2004008
Posted By: GUEST,Brian Peters
22-Mar-07 - 09:57 AM
Thread Name: 3:2 Hornpipes
Subject: RE: 3:2 Hornpipes
My playing experience tells me that the difference (apart from the longer beat length) is in the fact that all three beats in 3:2 are stressed more or less equally with perhaps some extra emphasis on the first, but without that heavy-on-the-one-beat oom-pah-pah rhythm you get with a waltz. More like Oom Oom Oom, in fact. Don't ask me about the theory, though.