Playing 8th Notes on Classical Guitar

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Hi my name is John Armstrong with expertvillage.com I'm a professional guitar instructor and today we are going to be discussing beginning classical guitar. Next I will like to discuss 8th notes and counting 8th notes. A 8th note is either written with a single note with a flag or if 2 or more are in session they could be connected by a bar. I have the corresponding equivalent rest listed there to and a 8th note gets half of a beat. Now how be commonly divide a beat in a half is the number and the word and. So for example if I was in 4,4 time and had a string of E notes all that were 8th notes I will count it something like this here it would be in quarter notes 1,2,3,4. Here it would be as in 8th notes 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and. We use the number and the word and in order to divide the beat in half. Here I have some exercises that deal with the use of 8th notes. Also in this first exercise you notice that it is in 3,4 time you see a note at the beginning a single quarter note a open G. This is refer to a pick up note 1 or more notes in a beginning of a string of music before we start the 1st full measure are refer to as pick up notes. The rhythm for the pick up notes could be seen on the last measure of the selection. Basically how you determine what beats you come in, in pick up notes is count backwards starting with the pick up note for whatever the time signature is. So here we have one quarter note 3 so we would be coming in on beat 3. Or first measure that we typically count blank would no longer be fully blank there would be some notes played in it. For example here is the next exercise uses the exercise we have learned or some of the notes that we have learn so far. 1,2,3,1,2,3, 2,3,1,2 and 3 and 1,2,3,1,2 and 3 and 1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2.

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