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[Music] [Applause] [Music] hello friends welcome to the last lesson in mastering rhythm in this class you will learn everything about time signatures and meter in music the best part is that we will use fragments of popular music if you haven't completed the previous lesson about note values I recommend that you go watch them carefully because you might not understand the content of this class the idea of this music theory course is that you follow all the lessons in order as we have seen before the foundation of rhythm are the beats the natural accents in music let us divide bits into strong or weak beats strong beats are useful for organizing music in measures so far we have counted to four before beginning each exercise and each measure was formed by four bits the first bit in every measure is always the strongest but music is complex and not all music is arranged in measures of four bits at the beginning of the stuff after the cliff we see two big numbers one below the other these numbers represent the time signature or meter the two numbers are separated by a line or slash these two numbers are what we call a fraction in mathematics but don't worry this is in an advanced mathematics class if you know how to add and subtract it's enough the number above the line in a fraction is called the numerator while the number below the line is called the denominator each one of these numbers means something different in music the time signature tells us the size of a measure the number below the line or denominator indicates a note value whereas the number above the line or numerator indicates how many of these note values are needed to complete a measure let me explain more about each number the numerator tells us the number of note values needed to fill a measure so far all the examples have had the number 4 in the numerator of the time signature this means that we need four node values to fill a measure can you guess which note value is it when we say that four note values are needed to complete a measure we are not talking about any note value it is a specific note value given by the denominator of the time signature to understand which note value represents the denominator we can use the name of the note values you have learned the whole note would be number one because it represents the entire e and the length of the other note values are being compared with the whole note a half note is equal to number two because you need two of these to complete a whole note a quarter note is number four because you need four of these notes to complete a whole note thus an eighth note is number eight a sixteen note is number sixteen a thirty-second note is number 32 and finally a 64th note is number 64 these numbers are the ones that have to be used in the denominator of the time signature to represent a note value only these numbers can be used in the denominator of the time signature all the exercises so far had the number 4 in the denominator which means that the quarter note is the basis for the measure we can conclude that 4/4 means that we need four quarter notes to complete a measure sometimes you can also see an uppercase C instead of a fraction in the time signature this is known as common time and it is identical to 4 4 to practice different time signatures and meters let's hear some examples using popular music we'll begin with the song in 4/4 [Music] [Applause] in jingle bells' each measure has a length of four quarter notes and each beat has the same duration as a quarter note let's say the rhythm with her voice Tata Tata Tata Tata Tata now you with the metronome hey three four time signature means that we need three quarter notes to complete a measure it also means that there are three beats per measure we can set the online metronome available at session town calm to produce accents every three beats by changing the number in the accent each column then set the tempo at the desired speed and click on the play button to start the metronome before we begin a song in three four we count to three for the following example we will count to two because the melody begins on the third beat if you remember from our previous lesson this is what we call an anacrusis let's hear the song [Music] happy birthday is in 3/4 and has anacrusis let's do the rhythm with the voice now you try it with the metronome remember to count to 2 and begin on the third beat the song is in 5/4 which means we need five quarter notes to complete a measure and there are five beats per measure I'm sure you will recognize the song it's the Mission Impossible theme let's do it with the voice Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam tantum now you try it with the metronome keep in mind that we have to count up to five before continuing with more examples I want to teach you something first it's a little variation to the eighth note that we call swing or shuffle notes to understand this subject we need to review eighth notes as we have seen them so far as you already know each eighth note has exactly the same duration [Music] do you remember triplets these are three eighth notes per beat let's hear how they sound [Music] [Applause] each eighth-note in a triplet has the same duration and we need three of them to complete one bit we can join notes in a triplet two eighth notes together have the same duration as a quarter note so in the following example we are replacing the first two eighth notes inside the triplet with a quarter note the result is the following [Music] [Applause] this rhythm is known as swing or shuffle eighth notes some experts say there is a slight difference between shuffle and swing notes they also say it is impossible to write this rhythm on a staff because different musicians can play the second eighth note a little different depending on how they feel the rhythm all that might be true but right now I just want you to think of swing or shuffle notes as you see them on the screen many compositions and styles always play eighth notes like this and not in a straight way as we have seen them before where each eighth note is evenly divided but writing the notes as you see them on the screen during a whole song would seem complicated call it style manners or simply laziness but every time a song uses swing or shuffle eighth notes we simply write them as a straight eighth notes and then we add an indication at the beginning of the score the indication you see on the screen means that eighth notes should be played like the ones from the previous example the following example sounds the same as the last example it uses swing or shuffle eighth notes the first eighth note in each beat takes a little longer than the second one [Music] [Applause] continuing with meters the following example uses a seven four time signature this means that we need seven quarter notes to complete one measure and the note value that represents the beat is the quarter note you Pink Floyd's money uses a seven four time signature and has shuffle eight notes remember that the staccato notes should be played for a certain time the rhythm with voice would be like this now the metronome will sound alone for you to practice count up to seven bits before you begin with the rhythm remember that in shuffle notes the first eighth note should take a little longer than the second one on the same beat so far the denominator has always been four let's try with the time signature to to the denominator means that the note value is the half note the numerator means that we need to have notes to complete a measure when using the time signature to to the duration of one bit is represented with a half note so each measure has two beats if half notes have a duration of one bit it means that all the note values should last half the duration compared to how we have used them before therefore the whole note will last two beats the quarter note will last half a bit and so on this time signature is known as alla breve and it can be indicated on the staff using a capital C with a vertical line through it let's hear an example [Music] [Applause] this time signature can be read as 4/4 because the total size of each measure is the same but it is important to interpret and perform the music as it is written the 2-2 signature means two beats per measure which means a strong beat is followed by a weak bit while 4/4 means a strong beat is followed by three weak beats an opinion is that music in - - could be rewritten using - for that way it would be easier to read and the intention of the beats would be the same but a lot of old music especially marches was written using this time signature so it's important for you to learn about it let's read the rhythm of this song with the voice tan tan tan tan tan tan tan tan TACA TACA tan try with the metronome all the time signatures we have seen so far unknown a simple mirror because each beat is naturally divided into two equal parts for example four four uses the quarter note to represent one bit and each quarter note is divided into two eighth notes although you learn before that we can use triplets to represent three notes per beat triplets are an exception what is common for 4/4 is to divide each beat into two eighth notes the two four three four four four five four seven four and two two signatures are simple time signatures because each bit can be broken naturally into two equal parts and the unnatural thing would be to break each bit into three equal parts but music is complex in many musical pieces each bit naturally splits into three equal parts and in those cases the exception is to break a bit into two equal notes the time signatures that naturally divide each beat into three equal parts are known as compound mirror let's try with an example to make it easier we'll use the time signatures six eight the denominator indicates eight nodes the numerator indicates that we need six eight nodes to complete a measure the difference with this type of time signature is that each bit is not represented by an eighth note in 6/8 each bit is represented by a dotted quarter note you might be thinking that I'm crazy but hang in there with the examples you will notice that it makes sense a dotted quarter note has the same duration of three eighth notes together so in 6/8 we have two beats per measure let's hear the example these are the first two measures of Metallica's nothing else matters in the example we counted to two because there are two beats per measure so you can see on the staff eighth notes are grouped using beams per bit you can see that three eighth notes are needed to complete each bit if we were to use a simple meter to write this song we would have to use two four because there are two beats per measure but the problem is that we would have to use triplets for all eighth notes thus 6/8 which will always be a compound meter is perfect for this song because it shows two beats per measure each dividing naturally in three eighth notes let's say the rhythm with the voice in this case we have two melodies or voices occurring at the same time that is why there is a rest before the eighth notes that dotted half note would be one voice or Mallory and the eighth note and the rest would be the second voice or melody we can say the rhythm with her voice by combining both rhythms which would be singing the Durrett half note as another eighth note it would be like this tan tan-tan tan tan-tan tan tan-tan tan tan-tan try it with the metronome another compound meter is 9 8 it means that we need 9 8 notes to complete a measure but remember in all compound meters the beat is the dotted quarter note therefore in 98 there are 3 beats per measure box bwv 147 is a composition using 9 8 this rhythm with the voice would be like this that bad now you try with the metronome remember to count from 1 2 3 another example of a compound meter is 12 8 where 12 eighth notes are needed to complete a measure again the beat is the dotted quarter note so there are four beats per measure let's hear an example [Music] this is Japan's Nocturne in e-flat let's try it with a voice and try with the metronome take into account Deana Cruces recognizing compound mirrors by looking at the time signature is easy numerators that use six nine or twelve are compound mirrors usually you will find that compound mirrors use the number eight in the denominator all the other time signatures that don't have six nine or 12 in the numerator are simple mirrors the most common time signatures has those with two three or four bits per measure those with two bits are known as double mirrors those with three beats per measure are known as triple mirrors and those with four beats per measure are known as quadruple mirrors those that do not have two three or four beats per measure are known as ad meters in regular mirrors or asymmetrical mirrors you already heard examples of irregular meters five four and seven four admirers can have any number in the numerator for example 13 16 would be a time signature with 13 sixteenth notes per measure to know the number of bits of this type of mirror we would have to hear the composition or look at the score to find how the beams organized the note values for example the time signature 7/8 means that we need seven eighth notes per measure but we can arrange the eighth note in different ways one way could be the following look at how the beams group the eighth note to determine the number of beats in this case we have three beats per measure the first two beats in each measure behave a simple beats because they break into two eighth notes the last bit in each measure behaves as a compound bit because it is divided into three eighth notes this type of time signature creates irregular beats in this case the metronome should make a sound with each eighth note and not with each bit to make it easier when counting it is better to count the eighth note because they are constant at the beats aren't this example organizes the eighth note as two plus two plus three because this is how the beats are arranged depending on the music you could organize a 7/8 meter as three plus two plus 2 or two plus three plus two in most cases a composition uses the same time signature for the entire piece of music but any composition can have multiple time signatures in different moments progressive rock uses many changes in time signature / composition I recommend that you search sheet music for your favorite music each song you read will teach you something new you can also try to write your own rhythms the software using these lessons is called music score and you can download it free from music org there you can also find videos to learn how to use the software I hope you have learned a lot through these lessons about reading and writing rhythm please share this music course with your friends family and fellow musicians and thanks for clicking the thumbs up button subscribe to our 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