Thanks guys ... sorry for my cryptic message. I typed it out on an iPad.
Here is my dilemma ... I'm playing live ... not against a click ... as such I have a patch with dotted 1/8ths to give that U2 sound. But I need to adjust the timing ... live on the spot using tap tempo. Or worst case, the song tempo changes in the middle of the song enough where I need to adjust the tempo mid song.
Now, I can adjust the time via BPM/ms calculations ... which I would prefer and do in a studio environment. That makes sense to me.
But when I'm live ... and realize the drummer started the song just a little bit "faster" than rehearsed ... my delays are a bit too out of sink.
So, what I'm trying to do is drill into my head how a dotted eighth rhythm sounds so live I can first catch the down beat .... 1 2 3 4 ... then move over to the dotted eighth rhythm and then tap tempo it in.
Does that make better sense?
About 3/4 of the YouTube videos I pulled up are either showcasing a dotted 1/8 patch, or diving into the BPM/ms conversion.
For the others, that focus more on a tap tempo approach, I'm hearing different things:
Dotted 8th Delay (with David Blakeman) - YouTube
This is suggesting accenting (*) on the following: 1* & 2 &* 3 & 4*
That just seems uneven to me, and also doesn't seem to be dotted 1/8 (maybe dotted 1/4?).
Here is another video:
Tone Tips: The Dotted Eighth Delay - YouTube
He speaks of thinking of dotted eighth in terms of 16ths ... so dotted eighth = 3/16.
He actually sounds out the pattern around 1:30.
There is another video I can't find right now that suggests the following accent (*): 1* e & a*
And maybe that is right if extended out? 1* e & a* 2 e &* a 3 e* & a 4* e & a*
Could be I answered my own question.
Because if that first video was more dotted 1/4, then the last pattern seems to match up. Maybe I'm getting confused because I was thinking a dotted eighth should resolve on the 1 beat in the next measure. But it seems to take 3 measures for it to resolve on the 1 beat?
So, the actual accenting (music theory) is probably what I need. But I'm more hoping to hear this accenting against a down beat to get it engrained in my head so that live I can tap tempo it out.
Thanks for any suggestions guys!
Brandon