Basic Music Theory: How to Read, Write, and Understand Written Music

Basic Music Theory Pete and Repeat Almost all music has repetition. A single measure may be repeated, a small section, or a larg ...

Interlude: Musical Terms First and Second Endings Sometimes a section is repeated, but has a different ending the second time ar ...

Basic Music Theory Moving On As you can tell, there are many, many terms to know. If you look in the glossary in the back of thi ...

Interlude: Musical Terms ...

PA RT T H R E E Yo u G o t R h y t h m In This Section You Will Learn: The Beat Whole Notes Half Notes Quarter Notes Eighth Not ...

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Basic Music Theory CHAPTER CHAPTER 10 WHERE’S THE BEAT? In This Chapter The Beat Whole Note Half Note Quarter Note Note Anatomy ...

11: Where’s the Beat? The Beat Goes On The beat of nearly any piece of music is easy to feel. It’s what sets your toe tapping, i ...

Basic Music Theory Note Anatomy 101 Let’s dissect a note. You’ll need to know the parts so that later in the book, when I say, “ ...

11: Where’s the Beat? The Stem Whole notes don’t have stems. Half notes and quarter notes do have stems. So do eighth notes, but ...

Basic Music Theory Third Line Notes Are Conformists The stem will be up for a note on the third line if it’s with other notes wh ...

11: Where’s the Beat? Which notes have stems? The stems of notes above the third line go ____. The stems of notes below the thi ...

Basic Music Theory CHAPTER CHAPTER 11 THE SOUND OF SILENCE In This Chapter Rests in General Whole rest Half rest Quarter rest ...

12: The Sound of Silence Take a Rest Ovid said that silence is strength. If that’s true, you’ll be much stronger after this chap ...

Basic Music Theory Making a Quarter Rest This is probably one of the trickiest symbols to make in written music, but it certainl ...

12: The Sound of Silence How many beats does a quarter rest get? How many beats does a half rest get? How many beats does a who ...

Basic Music Theory CHAPTER CHAPTER 12 METER In This Chapter Meter/Time Signature 4/4 Time 2/4 Time 3/4 Time All times are not ...

13: Meter Not the Metric System At the beginning of every piece of music is what is called the time signature or meter which giv ...

Basic Music Theory Why One Meter and Not Another? Why have different meters? When you look at the following examples you’ll see ...

13: Meter 2/4 Time Another fairly common time signature, though not as common as 4/4. Again, notice how easily this example fall ...