M means medium and W means game. So it is going to be like this, strong- weak, medium-weak, and then start all over again, strong-weak, medium-weak. Okay, great. Now, what does that even mean? Pretty much what that means is when you are listening to music, you will hear an emphasis on one note over the other. So, in this four beats, and it is going to sound like one, two, three, four. That is actually will be like one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four. So, if you are like tapping it out, it will sound like [tapping beat with hands], strong-weak, medium-weak, strong-weak, medium-weak, strong-weak, medium-weak, strong-weak, medium-weak, strong-weak, medium-weak. Okay, that is the four-four beat pattern. So, it gives you different feel.
Now, the different feel would be three-four. So three-four is going to be strong, weak-weak, strong, weak-weak. So, if you are going to listen for a while it will sound like [voice making the beat] stuff like that. That would give same feel, listen to that, it would be like, strong, weak-weak, strong, weak-weak, strong, weak-weak, strong, weak-weak, strong, weak-weak, strong, weak-weak like that.
And then two-four is strong-weak, strong-weak. So the two-four usually sounds like—it guess it is off the top of my head, all I really can think is like the native drum bands, like the native Americans and stuff like that. It will be like [tapping with hands], strong-weak, strong-weak, strong-weak, strong-weak, strong-weak, strong-weak like drums.
And then six-eight is pretty much the same, it is a strong-weak pattern except twice in one bar. So they break it up, they just multiple, so it is pretty much the faster of doing three-four because actually in three-four you could write each of these notes with eight notes and then there will be two-eight notes, two-eight notes, two-eight notes. But if it was in three-four and you write in the mouth like that, you would actually go differently. So hold on to different rules that go along with all those. So, yeah, I could probably talk for hours about all the different beat patterns because then I could draw into high breed times signatures like sub item. All that fun stuff like twelve-sixteen. The highest that goes up to is the sixteen. So the highest one you can go is sixteen-sixteen and the last you can get is one-one, and then all those numbers in between can be combined differently. But these are the basic ones, but there are probably about 20 or 30 different types of time signatures.
Anyway, so that should help you understand the beats a little bit better. I feel like I have not really talk enough about it, but maybe I guess I have. Okay, so this is the next thing. A lot of people have been saying, how can I play with my two hands together but different tempos but they really mean beats I guess. So pretty much, I have written out an exercise for you guys to practice so you can get better control of your independent hands. So it take a long hard to look at this.
So, first is to look, our claps are their, yeah, I wrote about it quickly as you can see it is not that accurate or whatever. Okay, now so you look at this, it is on two-four, so it is going to be two quarter notes for every bar and I have only written out one bar. And actually looking at these, they should have put another bar line but whatever.
In the right hand we have our two quarter notes, one, two. Now on the left, you can see there is a difference here. I have one, two, three, four. Oh my God. So, I have four-eight notes, I got eight the first time. Four-eight notes in the bottom, two quarters on the top. So, now you see these lines that I have drawn above and below. This is how I actually look at music when I just sit down and look at it. So these lines do not exist normally like up there going down. So what you need to do to get to figure out how it is supposedly to be play is break it down in your head. Everything can be divided evenly while every note can be divided evenly.
Okay, you have to think beat one. This is beat one, this note and this note will be played down together and this is the beat two. So we know that this twice as fast as this. So, half of this time, so if you put this in two, one of these should be equal to half of what it does because this is double. I do not know if it is a concept to grasp right now but this space of time, this note was to fill out the space of time. Now, this note will only fill out to hear and when it gets to this part in time this note right here, right there is going to take over, and on that note will bring that space of time to hear wherein these two notes will be played. Then this note right here will only fill out to this amount and then from there this note will carry on, but see this will keep going on till the end of the bar.
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