What is four beats? What the heck is four beats? What the heck is two beats? Well, let us take this metronome again and that every time that you get a sound, that is your beat and that is what your drummer would be doing, it would be cuing the beat. So, that is one beat every click. So if your drummer would have play faster, let us go from a 100 to like 150.
Okay, that is your drummer. So every time when that click happens, that was one beat. So, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one two, one two, one two, one two, one, one, one, one, one and then your eight note will actually be two beats, two clicks for every beat. So this is where your beat, let me do whole notes first, two, three, four, one, whole notes, two three, four, one two, three, four.
Okay, let me do half notes really quick, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two. Let me do quarters, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four and let me do eight notes finally. That will be, tap, up, tap, up, tap, up, tap, tap, tap. Now I already get two into it. I get too confused about it. When the other and everyone is caught off to what all these notes mean, what I do with that, I analyze these notes. So, let us take these half notes and those what you have them 4/4. Okay, when a piece of music is in 4/4, all is saying. So, that is saying that there is four beats in that measure. So, if for example, what I said earlier was that they were a chord up here. That would be incorrect, because look at this, your two half notes and chords so saying, 2+2+1. 2 beats plus 2 beats plus one beat is five. Well, I am going to measure of 4/4 not 5/4. So this is wrong. So, something is going to change, either change this to 5/4, instead this measure is correct or I have to erase these chords in there. So, this time signature is correct and I am going to do the latter. So I am going to erase this and then you have it a correct measure. 2+2 is 4. This is a whole note, whole note get four beats. So, here is your 4 beats right there. This next measure also has to get four beats as well as this one too. So here is the four chord notes, one, two, three, four. 1+1+1+1 chord notes get one beat and eight notes wherever there are eight notes yet but here is one 1+1+2, whole note plus whole note plus a half note is 4 beats.
So, now that it all makes sense, let us go back through this example. So here is your beat, one, two, ready, go. Half, half, whole, two, three, four, quarter, quarter, quarter, quarter, half. Let me do it again. Here is a one, two, one two, ready go. Half, half, whole, two, three, four, quarter, quarter, quarter, quarter, half. So now you guys just trying understand that these two pieces, two parts to a piece of music. That is the duration and there are the notes.
Now, that is it for the duration. Let speak here of the notes and I will speak really quick is that if I were to go and take this note and maybe go up to an E or down to a B up to a C and let us say this will one goes up there. Well, there is your piece of music, that is where you always do it, I mean, prepare the answers to a lot of questions for you guys but now you can see what a piece of music looks like and that is all that it will have that means there will only be things like pi’s or formatted or things but these are all little life embellishments.
So, you only have four quarter notes. I know that a quarter note so that I play them on every beat and on top of that, I have been looking where it is or the actual step. So, what I have said earlier, and once you have done this, then I start filling more questions is that if I will take this down. This E right here, is this E right here. All right, so this next note down here is a B, it is right here. Next there is a C, others in here is F. So, if I were to do this with the drummer, it will give me a D or C with B. And here is your beat, one, two, one, two, ready go.
Okay, E B, C, F. On every beat, E, B, C, F. And then if I will make it faster or chase notes, let us say how do you want this go up to that. Let us say I wanted it to go down to G. So now, I
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