This would be beat one and this should be beat two. To break it up to you so that you can count it, you would count this as (Demonstration). By the end, it indicates where the half the beat is going to be. So, you count like this. (Demonstration) You are going to play this note on one, that on two, and so forth. I will play it to you right now. (Demonstration)
When I am playing this, I am thinking of this note and this note, the C and the E. (Demonstration) The C and the E with the right hand are going to come in. (Demonstration) If you want it to change, you could add another bar there and you could write an E with a half note, a D on the left hand for another half note. (Demonstration)
To help you play this out, there is a nice little tool called the “metronome”. This is the old school version. It has a little weight to counter-balance it, and there are numbers. As the weight goes up and down, it changes the speed of how fast the pendulum is going to go back and forth.
It ranges between 40 and 208, and there is a whole bunch of different notches. Each notch has a different number. The number actually represents CPM—clicks per minute. It is just like RPM, but this is CPM. If it is 40, it is not going to be that fast. Here is the slowest that it will go. (Demonstration) See how it just moves back and forth.
If you are doing, you can add up a beat if you want it to be. (Demonstration) You can hear where the beat is going to be in. You could make it like this—whenever you click (Demonstration). Or it could be (Demonstration), so every click would be (Demonstration).
You can use that click to keep you going. (Demonstration) As you down up, it gets faster because it gets closer to the bottom. This is the fastest here. That is metronome.
I hope you had a good time. Happy practicing.
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