Counting Beats Part Two: Basic Essentials of Music Theory

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Counting Beats Part Two: 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. Another way to look at this is you start this on one, on the first beat, and you hold it until you get to the third beat, you start a new note, you start a new note, then you start a note here on the first beat, you hold it until you start this new measure, and then these are all one. So, this is another way to count rhythms and in both of these rhythmic counting methods there are advantages. So you do not have to do just once you understand how this works, another way looking at it is I am thinking in my head, the whole time one, two, three, four, one. So, I am going to hold this I am going to go one, three, four, one…, one, one, three, four, one…, three, four. So, two ways to look at a rhythm, what we wanted to get mostly here was to say quarter notes last one beat, half notes with a hollow head and the stem lasts two beat and whole notes, empty ellipse last four beats.

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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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