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

Basic Music Theory

CHAPTER

CHAPTER 10 WHERE’S THE BEAT?

In This Chapter

• The Beat


• Whole Note


• Half Note


• Quarter Note


• Note Anatomy 101


• Note Stems: Up or Down?

Days full of wanting.

Let them go by without

worrying that they do.

Stay where you are inside

such a pure, hollow note.

— Rumi