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

Basic Music Theory

CHAPTER

CHAPTER 13 DOWN WITH THE COUNT

In This Chapter

• Tap Your Foot


• Counting Quarter Notes


• Counting Half Notes


• Counting Whole Notes


• Counting Rests

Music is nothing else but wild sounds

civilized into time and tune.

— Thomas Fuller, History of the

Worthies of England.