Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Learn the saying - Every Good Boy Deserves Fun and remember that the
spaces spell FACE and you will always know the names of the lines and
spaces.
"Below is the picture of how Middle C looks on the treble staff. Play
these notes on your keyboard and say the letter name of the notes out
loud as you play!"
"Below is the picture of how "leger lines" look on the treble staff. Play
these notes on your keyboard and say the letter name of the notes out
loud as you play!"
"Below is the picture of how "quarter notes" look on the treble staff. Play
these notes on your keyboard and count out loud as you play!"
The whole note rest is a little black rectangle that hangs from the line.
The half note rest is a little black rectangle that sits on the line.
The quarter note rest is a little squiggly symbol that usually intersects the middle line.
Now let's play "O When The Saints" and watch how this song uses all 3 of the rests!
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My Sheet Music Free Music Lessons - Lesson 16
Pick-up Notes
Quite often, the beginning of the song will start with what is called an incomplete measure.
An incomplete measure where there are not enough notes or rests in the measure to equal the
top number in the time signature.
Whatever number of beats are missing in the first measure will be "picked-up" usually at the end
of the song in the last measure - which will also be an incomplete measure.
Therefore, the number of beats in the first measure plus
the number of beats in the last measure will equal 1 complete measure.
Did you notice that in the last song we played, "O When The Saints", we
had an incomplete measure at the beginning of the song?
It actually had only 3 beats in the first measure and it should have had
4!
Now let's play "O When The Saints" and look how we changed the last measure to count correctly!
The first measure has 3 beats and the last measure has 1 beat, therefore the two measures
added together equals 4 beats which is a complete measure!
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"Below is the picture of how a "sharp" sign looks on the treble staff.
Notice how they only affect the notes in the measure where they occur."
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"Below is the picture of how a "flat" sign look on the treble staff. Notice
how they only affect the notes in the measure where they occur."
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