Q: What does it mean if you have an 8th note and a quarter note and there's the bracket above the two notes with the little 3 on top (like the triplet bracket thing)? How would you play/count that out?
A: divide the beat into 3 and play the first 2. like instead of counting '1e&a2e&a', count '1triplet2triplet' except in your situation just play '1trip _'