Okay, so now we are the notes and on top you have four, two, one half and a quarter and what those refer to is how long you hold it out for. And these notes up on the top here are the notes that you play. And these notes are not on the bottom or the notes that you want complete silence on. So, what does that mean, well this is a whole note as you all know this is a whole note rest. So if you are holding out a beat for one beat, if you go up a note for one beat, you will write down this note. If you want to have a note of silence, you are going to write this down, so that should help you all out a little bit more and if you need this diagram, I am going to have a link to it in the video description so you can check it out there.
Hey what is up guys, Walt here again and today we are going to be working on symbols that you see in music, so here is a piece of music as you would read it. As if you were playing piano or guitar and I want to explain what these symbols are. I have a question from someone that said that they did not know what some of these notes were. Like this symbol, this one and this one and plus I said things like this dot, this dot up here, we will get that in a minute. So let me just get through this and explain it and you will be so much better. So here we have the treble clef T R E B L E, treble clef and here we have what we refer to as the time signature.
In this example, it is 4/4 okay, now that we are past that, here we have our quarter note and the part that the question really refers to is this guy right here. It looks like this and in a piece of music to understand is that it is not always going to be music playing, there is silence too, so how do you dictate the silent parts to a person who is trying to read music. Whether you are playing guitar and you are trying to read it and whether you do that is through these little symbols here, so in a way that you might have a piece of music, now I have four quarter notes which tells the musician to play the note four times. How do you the musician to not play the note four times, well here you have that.
Now, I am going to get to what all this mean, I am going through this piece of music really quick, so here is a half note rest. By the way when you are not playing music that is referred to as a rest and here is a quarter notes rests, so in the same way that the quarter note gets one beat of music, the quarter note rest gets one beat of no music or just complete silence. So this part right here, this part is referred to as you tie.
And finally this note, that is referred to as a dotted note. By the way last part, this right here is a half note rest, so you would play this note for one beat, you would not play a note for one beat because this chord at rest, you would play a note for B right here then you would let go and not let it ring out for half a note.
This is in 3/4, the way that I know that is it is in 3/2 but I just put in three fours, the way that I know that is in ¾ is because here is one beat chord note, here is the second beat, a chord note rest and here is a beat note. An eighth note plus an eighth note is one beat, so just think an eighth note gets half a beat, so a half plus a half equals one. Half a beat plus half a beat is one beat, so here is one beat, two beats, three beats and here is just saying that it is two plus one is three. So there is quick little eye thing for it and I hope that helps and if you need to know what the notes are literally, I have other videos for those in my tutorial in my channel, so check it out guys and I hope it helps.
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