Crash Course in Cockney-style music?

[Flack]

Hokai, for college, I've been asked to do "Girlfriend" by Avril Lavigne in a cockney-type style.

And all the Bill Bailey jokes I can listen to don't help!

So basically, I'm asking you guys for any piano-related advice you can give me for fills, intros, etc that may be able to help me out with said Cockney version.

Thanks a million, guys.

[rlainhart]

Stereotypical "Cockney" music to me means a triplet-based 12/8 feel, and lots of "rippling triplets" in the accompaniment. Rippling triplets are triadic arpeggios (no blues notes or extended chord tones, but chromatic passing tones are OK as long as you land on a triad tone) that you articulate up and down the keyboard.

But I think the 12/8 feel is the most important thing.