Week 1 lesson 3 - sequencing with the mini-notation

Learning Tidalcycles course Week 1 - mini-notation
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I found this by mistake while creating melodic lines with my own sample banks where I usually have one sample per octave, or one sample per fifth but not for each degree.
Though I think the combination of both n and note leads to very, very weird melodic structures - especially when you drive the choice of the sample with something like n (scale "scriabin" "0 4 5").
Wrong to some extent, but fascinating.

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Blockquote It slows down the step, so the first time around, bd/3 would give the first third of the event. The trigger message gets sent at the start, so you hear it then. The next two times you get the second and third part of the event. There's no trigger message for those.

So would another way to visualize it would be to imagine this operation on [bd*6]/3 where it would slow the pattern down to play 2 triggers per cycle? am I picturing that right?

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Yep [bd*6]/3 would have the same result as bd*2

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I just made my most satisfying pattern to date thanks to this lesson. It's been helpful learning about the ways things like <> and / * work. These really open up the possibilities.
Have a go with this it's super fun:

setcps 0.3

d1 $ iter 2 $ fast "{23 42}/4" $ every 2 (jux (iter 2)) $ n "8 [2 [<2 3 10 6>] 2 3]/2 <5 2> 14" +|
sound " bd*<1 2 4 , 1 4 1.5> cpu [8]/< 4 2 1.333 8> cpu " "<1 2 13 2 3>" #
note " "/4

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I have tried to run your code doesn't work though

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Not sure if it's what @flaminggarlic had intended but I had some luck by moving the last pattern into #note:
d1 $ iter 2 $ fast "{23 42}/4" $ every 2 (jux (iter 2)) $ n "8 [2 [<2 3 10 6>] 2 3]/2 <5 2> 14" +|
sound "bd*<1 2 4 , 1 4 1.5> cpu [8]/< 4 2 1.333 8> cpu" # note "<1 2 13 2 3>"/4

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So I'm not sure what went wrong, but there's a few things still missing from that code. I'm gonna try pasting this in again:

d1  $ iter 2 $ fast "{2*3 4*2}/4"   $ every 2 (jux (iter 2)) $ n "8 [2 [<2 3 10 6>] 2 3]/2 <5 2>  14"  +|  
    sound " bd*<1 2 4 , 1 4 1.5> cpu [<mouth >*8]/< 4 2 1.333 8> cpu "* "<1 2 13 2 3>" #
    note " <c g a f> <e b c a> <g d e c> <b f g e>  "/4

There we go! I was try to avoid the preformatted text for blockquote as I noticed the "s sometimes have a problem when cut an paste in preformatted mode, but blockquote removed a bunch of other stuff.

I also had a

setcps 0.3

to slow it down a little. Thanks for letting me know it was busted, let me know what you think!
Jesse

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very easy to create nice sounding off beat- like subsequences . love it

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