Same as the music alphabet, the idea of finger numbers should becoming more familiar. Keep practicing the music alphabet as needed. So a dotted half note is the note (worth two) plus half of two (one), which of course equals three.īy now, you should be getting more accustomed to the music alphabet. If you add a dot, you are taking half of the value of the half note (half of two is one) and adding it to the original value (which is two for the half note). So for example, the half note by itself gets two beats. The dot adds half of the notes value back to itself. You may have noticed that certain notes have a dot next to them (like the dotted half note). The dotted half note gets three beats and the duration with four beats is the whole note. The half note gets two beats so you will play the note and count to two. You are still counting to four, you are just changing the speed in which you are counting. So, you can count to four really fast with each count being much faster than a second, or you could count to four very slowly. The faster you count, the faster the tempo is in a song. A quarter note gets one beat, meaning you will play the piano and count to one. Rhythm is often made of beats (or counts) and divided by how many beats are in each measure. Examples of note durations are quarter notes, half notes, dotted half notes, and whole notes. A combination of note durations along with time signatures help construct the rhythm of a song. A note duration tells you how long to play a note.
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