Introduction to Playing Quarter Notes on Drums

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Summary: Get an introduction on how to play quarter notes on drums; get professional tips and instruction from an expert drummer on playing percussion instruments in this free music lesson video.

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Introduction to Playing Quarter Notes on Drums

JOEL SIEGEL: All right. So you heard me mention quarter notes earlier. Maybe you're wondering what those are. The quarter note is basically just the beat. When you hear a song, it's that natural pulse that you feel, whatever the tempo of the song is. So the quarter note, you're going to have different tempos and that's what the quarter note is going to respond to. So--correspond to, excuse me. So you can imagine the song to this tempo, and these are quarter notes right here. If the song is faster, the quarter notes are going to be here. This is also what the metronome keeps. These are quarter notes. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. That's how we hear and that's how we count when you're in 4-4 time. The last thing I want to just tell you about quarter notes before we play...this is some musical notation. You may be interested in this, you may be--you may not be interested in this. Not everybody wants to read music but this is just good for reference. This top line--these are quarter notes right here. This is one, two, three, four. This is what the individual quarter note looks like. This is what a quarter rest looks like, which just means you're not playing for that beat. This is play, this is not play. Alright? So let's take a listen and let's play some quarter notes.