Beats In A Measure: Basic Essentials of Music Theory

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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. Now we talked about quarter notes and their corresponding rest basically each one of them with one beat. We have talked about half notes and their corresponding rest, which hangs down now. Just to mention it when you write a half rest is just a rectangle not the line. I wrote the line just so that you know it goes on this third line, and I wrote the line here so you know that it hangs down from this fourth line, but all these are is really just a rectangle. So when you write it it’s just a rectangle. Last recap on this: quarter note, one beat in sound, one beat of silence, half note, two beats of sound, two beats of silence, whole note, four beats of sounds and four beats of silence, and then I wanted to point out down on these two rests it is really just the rectangle. You do not write the line, but since it sits on the staff usually the people display it, they write the line. But it is only you see I only wrote a rectangle here, rectangle, rectangle, rectangle. Okay, so that is the basic, one, two, three, four beats in a measure.

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