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The dotted note.

Beats help count rhythms.  (Receive same amount of rhymic space.)  Whole note:  attack on beat 1, held out during duration of measure.

Half notes:  Attack on 1 and 3 value ½ of a whole note.  2 half notes =a whole note in value.

½  value of half notes is quarter notes.  Attack on beat 1, 2, 3, 4,.  Very simple metronome beat of quarter notes.

Eighth notes ½ value of quarter notes.  Accent 1^st group of 8^th note patterns.  Beats fall on 1,3, 5, 7 of Attack notes.

16^th notes Accent 1^st group of 16^th notes.  ½ value of 8^th notes.  Attack notes 1^st, 5^th, 9^th  and 13^th notes.

Mathematic sense helps sight reading made into easy stuff.

*Even divisions= Keep 8^th notes even.  1, 3, 5, 7 line up with beat.

Accent help reinforce.  Indicated with little arrow pointing right over beat, (Orchestra and Marching percussion use the accents of 8^th and 16^th notes.)

How do you know how fast to play 16^th notes?

Span of one quarter note (sing 4 quarter notes.)  Each one must line up.  (8ths and 16ths.)  Make sure they are even.

Get a metronome and you must hear 4 beats.  (Not 3 beats, because that would make it ¾ time.)

Use the metronome you can’t speed up or slow down for 16^th notes in front of people of audience members.

Use the metronome of different speeds to put in with hesitations and perfect time.

Technical terms of music (Division of notes and rests.)

*Performers to play insert after.

Pallaralls what notes are doing.  Same related to beats.

Beam:  Connects two or more notes together.  You can have a beam or a flag.  If it has 1 flag= 8^th note.  A stem no flag, a quarter note. 2 flags a 16^th note.

(This lesson only up to 16^th notes.  32^nd and 64^th notes can be played at very slow tempo’s.)

It’s a base of numbers and mathematics.  Do you see the patterns?  A system for performers to play.

One count:

Now a whole rest hangs from the 2^nd line.  Rest for entire measure. 

Two counts:

Half rest.  Sits on top of third line gets 2 beats for entire measure.

4 counts:

1 quarter rest gets 1 beat. ( They sort of look like backwards 3’s with the top part of the 3 at an 45 degree angle.)

8^th rests:  8 notes of rest to fill up entire measure of music.  (Look like 7’s with a ball or dot on tip of top of the 7.  Must make big enough to see.)

16^th rests line up with beat patterns.  Beats and rests change of music.  They look like 8^th notes with an added top going across.  (Like 7 sevens stack on top of each other, but, sharing the same downward stem.)

Every time you hit a rest, you will say the word rest.  Do you understand that?

Identify the whole notes and whole rests.  The half notes and half rests.  The quarter notes and the quarter rests.  The 8^th notes and the 8^th rests.  And the 16^th notes and the `16^th rests.

Know what they are.

Count them out in rhythmic situations:

A half note and a half rest in one measure.  The next measure 2 quarter notes and a half rest.  The next measure 2 quarter notes and quarter note rest and a quarter note.  Next measure a whole note.  (hold out whole note at full value.  (4 beats.)  Carry over to beat of next measure.

Remember you can’t be a music student without a metronome.

 All of the above is to prepare for the following …the concept of the dotted note:  changes that note: increases it’s valve of note by one half.  The dot is slightly above the note to the right making it readable.

In 4/4 time.

A half note with a dot would be a half note with the value of 2 beats plus 1 beat to equal a value of 3 notes.

A dotted whole note receives the value of 6 notes.  (A whole note lasts 4 beats, plus half-2 beats equals 6 beats.)

 A dotted quarter note 1 and ½ beat.  Subdivide a quarter note plus an 8^th note indicate a tie.  If the note stems are down the tie is above where the note heads are.  If the note stems are up the tie is down by the note heads.  The second note in a tie you don’t accent it.

Q: Why do we need to do this?

A: Dealing with something not equal, subdivides the beat.

Example a dotted quarter note equals the more common quarter note tied to an 8^th note.  Also three 8^th notes tied to each other. ( 3 8^th notes are also one and ½ beats.) Dotted ½ note with the added value of a quarter note.  It sounds the same but not written the same.  As in a half note tied to a quarter note.  Hence a dotted half note has the value of 3 tied quarter notes.  Or A dotted half note has the value of a half note tied to a quarter note.  It’s always the next smaller note value.