Writing Classical Music Scales in B Flat (Bb)

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So this is our actual B flat major scale written out. Notice that we have these two flats written in there. So you have your B flat and your E flat then again your B flat and E flat. So, those are your reference points. So you know this line's always one. And we start with our first note there. There's our one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. This is also a B flat. This is a middle C. And notice this is a treble cleff and a bass cleff. So this is your right hand and your left hand. So these are the high notes and these are the low notes. And on your bass staff, B flat starts right here on the second line, and you have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. So, each line and space on the staff just represents a note in the scale. And when you we go in between those notes we use either a sharp or a flat sign. Or, if it's already flatted or sharp then we want to make it natural we use a natural sign. So, sharp makes a note go up a half step and flat makes the note go down a half step. So now we're going to go over some basic beats or rhythms of notes so you can know what you're reading. First of all there's four beats in a measure. So this is a half note, it gets two beats. A quarter note gets one beat. Two eighth notes equals a beat and four sixteenth notes equals a beat. Likewise it goes on for thirty-second notes, sixty-fourth etcetera etcetera. It's just all subdivisions. And then when a note has a dot behind it, it gets it's value plus half its value. So, a dotted half note would get three beats whereas a dotted quarter note would get one and a half beats. So, these are some basic rhythms that we're going to go through and apply to our music as we read through Bach Prelude number one in B flat major.

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