Author: Matt74
Date: 2016-09-20 22:14
You are right. Some of this will be obvious. You would normally count it like this... (The capital letters are the beginning of a note, and the commas separate notes.)
ONE-and, TWO-and-three, AND-four-and
or you could simplify it to exactly what you said:
ONE, TWO-three, AND-four
To make sure you don't have too many beats in a measure, add up the values.
In 4/4 time a "whole" note is four beats, so one beat is a "quarter" note, and a half a beat is an "eighth". BUT if you are counting beats, or quarter notes, a "quarter" note is 1 beat, an "eighth" is 1/2 a beat, etc. So, your example, of a quarter note, plus a dotted quarter, plus a dotted quarter, would be...
1+ 1 1/2 + 1 1/2 = 4
or the same thing in decimals,
1 + 1.5 + 1.5 = 4
You could also count your example in eighths like this:
ONE-two, THREE-four-five, SIX-seven-eight.
Counting eighths comes in handy when you have a bunch of 16ths and 32nd notes. But once you learn the music, it's usually best to focus on where the main "pulse" is. You can count a march in 2, even though it's written in 4, or count a waltz in 1, even though it's written in 3.
- Matthew Simington
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