How to Read Quarter Note Drum Beats

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Now we're going to go over our first two measures and our theme for these two measures are quarter notes. And these are what we have right here, quarter notes. Four quarter notes equal a measure and we're reading in 4-4, and if you're reading in 3-4, it'd be three quarter notes to a measure. But you have here, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. And you notice, I wrote down the analysis here. And again, this page, if you click on the link for this page, this whole thing will print out, so you can print it out and go over it with us at home as we're going through it. We wrote out here 3, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5 and that's referring to the scale again. So you start it on this line below the steps, we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5 and I'd like to introduce, this is a whole rest and it hangs down below the middle line, it's a little square below it and that is four measures of rest, or four beats rest, so you don't play anything there. And this is a whole note, and we have 3 and 5, I wrote that below, so these are held for a whole measure. So this sounds like this. If you look at the key board here, we have 3, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5. I'm going to play 3, 5 down here on the second measure, right? 1, 3, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5. So that's our first two measures and we have quarter notes and we learned a whole note and a whole rest as well.

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