Which is why a lot of beginner books start with Middle C - it's easy to recognise. and to adequately help them count it properly - it helps to define how long or how many 'beats' to hold it for. The reason I believe this, is because when people learn music - beginning music is often filled with semibreves and minims. Once they understand the relationship between the note lengths and come across more complex music, it's easy enough to explain that in ?/8 time signature, the quaver becomes the beat and that the semiquaver is still half the length of a quaver - but not just like fractions, it is half of the beat. By letting them know that commonly a crotchet is a single beat, a quaver is half that, and a semiquaver half again, then they understand the relationship between the length of notes. Given that almost all beginning music is in ?/4 time signature, then it seems easy enough to give them a 'standard'. Quote from: perfect_pitch on November 01, 2015, 01:20:08 AM I don't necessarily agree. If the same thing were written in 3/8 time, we'd be counting in eighth note values: 1(eighth) 2(eighth) 3(eighth). In a 3/4 waltz we're going 1-2-3-1-2-3 and we know that from one number to the next we're counting in quarter note values. Or you could beat out your quarters 1-1-1-1 or 1-2-3-4 or 1-2-3, and stick in an eighth in the middle which is also our classical 1-and-2-and (the "and" is in the middle).Ī "beat" gives us the meter, a kind of underlying rhythm. You could decide to compare an eighth to a quarter, beat out your eighths 1-2-1-2 and tap out your quarters on every second eighth note. Any one of these note values can become a "pulse" (rather than beat) for the other. You can play with this by beating out the relative time, and by doing rhythm exercises. This is math: fractions, multiplication and division. This also means that you can play four quarter notes in the time you can play one whole note. There are two quarter notes in a half note so you can play two of them while sustain the half note. That means you can play two half notes while sustaining a whole note. There are two half notes in a whole note. The image on the bottom is a good way of looking at it. The concepts of note value and beats should be kept separately. It leads to confusion later on when you run into things like 3/8 or 2/2 time. It is unfortunate that some books still introduce note value by talking about beats, and having the first music all by in 4/4 and 3/4 time (where the quarter notes gets the beat). None of these note values should be considered any kind of fraction of a beat.
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