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So now we've gone through and shown you the visual of the scales; now we're gonna go apply
it to the music. So first of all, you see we have five flats just like I explained (and
you can see visually) so that's how you know you're in the key of D flat - five flats.
And you have your treble clef here which is your right hand, and your bass clef which
is your left hand, and they're both read a little bit differently. But so you know, the
space below on this the treble clef is your D flat or your one. Also the second line down
is the D flat so that's a good reference point. Then you go up the scale you got: one, two
three, four, five, six, seven. So you're playing all the black notes, but we don't have to
notate it because they're already notated over here. And now, the D flat on the bass
clef starts right here on the middle line, so we have: one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven. So, this is a quick overview of how it's read. And now, we're going to go over
some basic scales, or some basic rhythm for notes. Now there's four beats in a measure,
so this is a half note - it takes up two beats, quarter note takes up one beat, eighth note
- two eighth notes make up one beat four sixteenth note equal a beat, and it goes on
- you got thirty second notes, sixty fourth notes, et cetera, et cetera. We're just going
to concentrate on the basics right now. If you see a note with a dot after it, it gets
it's value, plus half of it's value. So a dotted half would get three beats, and a dotted
quarter would get one and a half beats, and et cetera, et cetera. So now we're gonna take
this basic information and ride it through as we play through "Bach Prelude Number 1"
in D flat major.