Using Eighth Notes to Play Bass Guitar Rhythm

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CASEY CORMIER: So far, the extent of our rhythmic vocabulary has really been quarter notes and half notes, basically quarter notes being one, two, three, four, and half notes being twice as long, one, two, three, four. We saw that in our simple melodies and everything, and everything else is pretty much just been about melodic playing, so we've been using quarter notes really. But now we're going to look at eighth notes, which are twice as fast as quarter notes, one-and, two-and, three-and, four-and, and sixteenth notes, one-e-and-a, two-e-and-a, three-e-and-a which as twice as fast as eighth notes. Let's look at them in written form. On the bass clef, instead of being as quarter notes when with their stems independent, eighth notes will be connected by a line across. And as you can see, this one be written underneath, but this is how you should think of counting, one-and, two-and, three-and, four-and. If you have four beats in the measure like this time signature indicates, one-and, two-and, three-and, four-and for eighth notes. This is what an eighth note would look like alone but have a little flag on it. Now, sixteenth notes would have two flags and it'll be connected by two lines. Now, 4 sixteenth notes really is the equivalent of a quarter note in time, one-e-and-a, so it'll be like one-e-and-a, two-and, three-and, four-and, one-e-and-a, two-and, three-and, four-and. In addition, we would have eighth note rests and sixteenth note rests when we're dealing with these. An eighth note rest has one flag like this, and then a backwards stem, and then sixteenth note rests would have 2 flags. So, if you're looking at a piece of music, it's important that you recognize where your eighth notes and sixteenth notes are and not to get them confused with your quarter notes.

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