Time Signatures in Violin Playing

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Summary: Start playing the violin, the world's most classy musical instrument, today; learn time signatures for playing violin in this free video music lesson on playing beginner violin.

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Amy Oliver Amy Oliver began violin in early 1990 and has been playing ever since. She has taught lessons for small children and taken lessons from players and conductors... read more

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Time Signatures in Violin Playing

As a beginning violinist you're already well aware of the key signature, and what that means to your playing, but you should also be well aware of the time signature. For beginning violinists most time signatures are in the four-four time, which means four beats per measure. In quarter notes it would be played four notes per measure, like this. If you were to be playing in half notes there would be two notes per measure in four beats; each note taking up two beats, and a whole note; which takes up four beats; would be the only note in the measure. So you can see; time and the length of a note itself can change the sound that you're producing when playing the violin. Always make sure that you're aware of the time signature; since there are many other time signatures; such as two-four, three-four, twelve eighths, nine eighths, and the list goes on and on.