Triplet with 2 notes

[marchinram]

Hello, can someone explain what it means when a triplet only has 2 notes in it?

[ajspiano]

Hello, can someone explain what it means when a triplet only has 2 notes in it?

1 quaver, plus 1 crotchet is equal to 3 quavers..

[marchinram]

Hey I'm not sure what those terms mean? Can you elaborate please?

[chopin2015]

Quarter note equals 2 8th notes, 1 8th note plus 1 quarter note equals 3 eight notes?

[j_menz]

All the notes in your image add up to a count of 9. The first note counts for 1, the C counts the remaining 8.

[unimaster]

Okay . . . stand back . . . the newbie's gonna take a shot at this.

Part of this depends on what the time signature for the piece is, how long the measure lasts, etc. But for the sake of keeping things basic let's just say this picture represents an entire measure in 3/4 time. The tied quarter and half notes fill the bill by themselves. The addition of the eighth note would overcharge such a measure by a quarter beat—unless the quarter note is read as two eighth notes and tripleted with the preceding eighth (which is the case here).

This simply indicates that the eighth and quarter notes together (three eighth notes—a triplet) equal one beat.

[j_menz]

Part of this depends on what the time signature for the piece is, how long the measure lasts, etc.

Not so far as I can see. What difference would that make?