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Howdy! And welcome to the world of futtuplets! 

This series constitutes the definitive study of quintuplets for rock guitar. It provides an in-depth introduction to five-note patterns, thoroughly discusses their place in music theory, and offers an exhaustive inventory of applied examples for use in the real world of modern rock guitar.

There is a distinct possibility that when you work all the way through this series your heart will beat in quintuplets. 

Mine does.

Take a look around. We have physical and digital books to help get you started. A whole video channel on YouTube called That's Futtuplet with scores of examples demonstrated in 5-minute episodes. I even have some free études available for you to hear quintuplets in modern music. Of course, there's merch for futtupletarians to make their identity known to others. And there's a contact form if you need to yell at me for messing with your sense of rhythm. 

Remember, when you play a badass quintuplet riff and the other guitarists look at you in awe, you can say, 

I meant to futtuplet!

By the time you get to an intermediate level of mastery of the guitar, or of any melodic instrument, you will be working with motifs, arpeggios, and sequences almost daily. They are part of everyone’s practice routine. These building blocks of music have a feel because they are connected with an underlying rhythm. 

But here’s an interesting point: almost nobody practices 5-notes-to-the-beat phrases. We play scales and and licks and arpeggios in quarter-notes and triplets. We work up to sixteenth-notes…and then skip straight to sextuplets. Quintuplets are rarely part of how we think and practice and play. 

If you don’t think about it, you don’t practice it.
And if you don’t practice something, you don’t master it. 
And if you don’t have it mastered, you aren’t going to pull it out of your Mojo bag to play for your audience.

But not us! 

We accept the challenge. Five notes to the beat? We practice that every day. Quintuplet repeating cycles? No sweat. Quintuplet sequences that cascade through the measure? Watch me. We are the few, the proud, the Futtuplophiles. 

(That last bit sounded more dramatic in my head…)

So let's practice those quintuplet phrases! Let's put some time in and master this challenging rhythm! And then, let's add this beautiful, strange, quick, chaotic clusterf*ck of notes to our repertoire and blow the roof off this place!