Comment right here, you’ll see these little notes right here and what they are—let me just turn this down, there you go. Okay and so, what these notes do? These are called Grace notes.
So, what Grace notes are is that—instead of playing a piece of music that goes—let’s take this, copy that here, bring that down and let’s make this—let-s just raise this three, one, two and three.
Okay, these right here are just four quarter notes just normal and when play them, it sounds like this. [demonstration] But now, what if you want it go [demonstration] instead of [demonstration]. That’s what a grace note is, it literally acts as a hummer on or a pull off more so a hummer on where you want the note to kind of hit into the other note.
So, instead of going [demonstration] it’s going [demonstration]. So, this is the target note and this is the grace note. So here’s what we had before, [demonstration] and here’s what you have now [demonstration]. Okay, I’ll bring it down in this way [demonstration] as oppose to this [demonstration]. Okay can you hear that [demonstration] and so why would you want to use grace notes? Well, because they make your score sound so much more human.
Now, I’m not saying, you throw grace note every time that you write a piece of music, but that the idea is that when you’re writing something you want it to sound with a little bit more embellishment. So, by the way, this just saying no is probably like this grace notes just like [demonstration].
So, it’s called grace note like that. And when I say embellishment, it just embellishes the music that you’re writing. So, before—and there’s tons of embellishments. You can if you wanted to—have this be a trill, right? So, if you want this to go trill [demonstration] and now it’s going to sound like. And you know you don’t have a grace note, but you can actually trill and go after the grace notes.
So, when I trill those is that it’s a tremolo effect where instead of just going [demonstration] it goes [demonstration] where it creates a repeated attack over the note. So, this now what the trill sounds like [demonstration]. Let’s play it again [demonstration] Okay, so did you hear that tremolo or trill–it’s a tremolo, a trill is something different, don’t worry of that. But, these are all embellishment, the music sound a little bit more organic.
So, here’s what we have before [demonstration] as opposed to just a boring grace which would have sounded like [demonstration] or no grace which would sound like this. [Demonstration].
So, that’s the idea of grace notes and if you want to hear how they sounded on the guitar you could easily just play them like this [demonstration] and so that you’re hitting the notes [demonstration] and you’re just hammering on really quick. And it gets to the point where--that the note happens so fast that it actually doesn’t get a duration, that’s another thing.
So these look to be as eight notes, these little grace notes here, they look to be as eight notes, but in actuality they get no rhythmic duration because they happened so fast. You’re better off to sing quarter, quarter, quarter, grace, grace, grace. [Demonstration].
Okay, so that’s the idea and trying to fill it with some grace notes of your music and there you have it guys. Oh by the way, this is using Sibelius 6. So, big ups to them, this is an awesome program, definitely check it out and that’s it. We’ll see you all back here tomorrow, we do this everyday. Subscribe or any comments, any questions let me know because I’m going to help you. Alright guys, hope you’ll peace, love and harmony.
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