Pitch & The Quarter Note: Basic Essentials of Music Theory
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Pitch & The Quarter Note: Basic Essentials of Music Theory
Hey! I am Mark Black and I am here on expertvillage.com. I am here to talk to you about music theory and learning how to read music. Okay, now we want to talk about rhythm. So far we had talked about pitch and the position of the notes on the staff, high and low tell us the pitch, A, B, C, F, G, but the shape of the note tells us how long that note lasts. Okay, so this is a quarter note and all you need to look at this as is a shape. A shape that has got a circle, it is filled in and it has a stem, it is a quarter note. It lasts one beat in four-four time. Now just to mention it, 500 years ago, all music was in four-four time or, fast four-four, and they said “Hey! That’s just a half of a measure - it’s two beats, it’s a quarter measure – it’s one beat.” Those terms don’t work anymore, but quarter note in four, four time is one beat. Now we are going to come back to that and explain that fully but this is a one-beat note. So, we typically have four beats in a measure, four quarter notes in a measure and basically you just need to look at it like a gallon jug takes four quarts, and so if we are going along our song, this is the beat we will be going, baa… ba… ba… ba… ba… ba… ba… ba… obviously that is the same note. That’s four quarter note C’s, can change or not change totally independent of the pitch or different pitches but the same rhythm. So, this is exactly the same rhythm, and this would be, again here is the quarter note, the time has not changed, da… da… da… da… da… da… da… da… steady quarter note, that’s called a quarter note.
Hey! I am Mark Black and I am here on expertvillage.com. I am here to talk to you about music theory and learning how to read music. Okay, now we want to talk about rhythm. So far we had talked about pitch and the position of the notes on the staff, high and low tell us the pitch, A, B, C, F, G, but the shape of the note tells us how long that note lasts. Okay, so this is a quarter note and all you need to look at this as is a shape. A shape that has got a circle, it is filled in and it has a stem, it is a quarter note. It lasts one beat in four-four time. Now just to mention it, 500 years ago, all music was in four-four time or, fast four-four, and they said “Hey! That’s just a half of a measure - it’s two beats, it’s a quarter measure – it’s one beat.” Those terms don’t work anymore, but quarter note in four, four time is one beat. Now we are going to come back to that and explain that fully but this is a one-beat note. So, we typically have four beats in a measure, four quarter notes in a measure and basically you just need to look at it like a gallon jug takes four quarts, and so if we are going along our song, this is the beat we will be going, baa… ba… ba… ba… ba… ba… ba… ba… obviously that is the same note. That’s four quarter note C’s, can change or not change totally independent of the pitch or different pitches but the same rhythm. So, this is exactly the same rhythm, and this would be, again here is the quarter note, the time has not changed, da… da… da… da… da… da… da… da… steady quarter note, that’s called a quarter note.
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Expert: With a Master's Degree in Music, Mark W. Black, owner & founder of "Promethean Studios" Dallas, has taught hundreds of beginner and advanced students how to increase their music skills. Read More
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