Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-02-10 20:06
That's because you're still wedded to that diagram. What you should do is forget you ever saw it and concentrate on the music, which (for traditional Western/European musical styles) is organized, like metered verse, into units of stressed beats and unstressed beats. You're overthinking, encouraged by a graphic that few other beginning students (of whatever age) question. But the problem isn't with the concept of accented and unaccented beats, which you can hear with no graphic help, but with the visual image itself, which in your case is confusing more than helping.
Good teachers, when they find that a technique or explanation isn't working to help a student, find another way to teach the concept. Every student is different. Self-taught students, lacking the input from someone with more experience, need somehow to know when this is happening and find their own alternative approach. Forget about up and down arrows. They may or may not work for a specific 10-year-old (at whom they're aimed), but they aren't working to build your understanding. Listen to music, try to hear the metric organization and the way the faster notes relate to the slower ones.
Karl
Post Edited (2018-02-10 20:06)
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