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JOEL SIEGEL: All right. So just real quickly, I want to show the musical notation. I showed
you quarter notes before and you may not be particularly interested in notation but this
is just an attempt to help you kind of conceptualize it and understand it. So here we have one
bar of 4-4. One bar of eight notes is exactly what these are, okay? And so you can--like
I said before, they call them eight notes because there's eight in a bar, okay? So you
have four beats in a bar, eight notes over the course of four beats that means you have
two notes per beat, okay? So this is a little bit of a math lesson, too. So we have one
and two and three and four, end. This is how we're counting, and then the downbeat of the
next bar, okay? Sixteenth notes, it's a similar thing. We have--this little second stem denotes
the fact that it's a sixteenth note. The one stem denotes the eight note, okay? So it's
just a kind of division, two to the whatever power, all right? That's not important. We'll
look at--we have--this is one beat right here and like what I was saying earlier, we have
four notes in that one beat, 16. So, four notes times four beats gives us 16, okay?
And like I said before, the way you want to count it and say it to yourself as you're
playing, as you're learning, is one-e-and-a, two-e-and-a, three-e-and-a, four-e-and-a and
then your next beat is the downbeat of the next bar, okay? This is a really common rhythm,
and so it shouldn't feel too foreign to you. It's very common in all different styles of
music, okay? But just kind of, you know--hopefully, this helps you conceptualize it a little better.
And like I said, if you need a little more help, go back to just two or three videos
before and just kind of listen to the sixteenth notes versus the eight notes versus the quarter
notes, okay? And it should start to become clear to you.