Music Theory Academy week 20 Rhythm

This wee we are going to concentrate on reading rhythms only in simple time with a time signature of 4/4

That means rhythms with four crotchets to a bar

The note head and tail tell you the time value of the note in the bar. We use the English names for notes, unlike the Americans which call them by their numeric value

Rests, or silences in the bar, also have their own values

When reading rhythm, it is uesful to think about the smallest practical devision of the bar. This is most often semiquavers, depending on the tempo. A system many use is One-E-and-A

Look at the rhythm and see if you can work it out

Look at the rhythm and see if you can work it out

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Every bar has a complete number of divisions of the beat. In 4/4 there are:

1 Semibreve

2 Minims

4 Crotchets

8 Quavers

16 Semiquavers

32 Demisemiquavers

64 Hemidemisemiquavers

Every bar has a complete number of divisions of the beat. In 4/4 there are:

1 Semibreve

2 Minims

4 Crotchets

8 Quavers

16 Semiquavers

32 Demisemiquavers

64 Hemidemisemiquavers

Every bar has a complete number of divisions of the beat. In 4/4 there are:

1 Semibreve

2 Minims

4 Crotchets

8 Quavers

16 Semiquavers

32 Demisemiquavers

64 Hemidemisemiquavers

I have set a new bunch of practice tasks for you on Tonesavvy. Please check you emails and see how you get on with them. We will come back to intervals after half term

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