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If you can hear sounds and recognize symbols you can learn to read music.
It’s easier than abc’s, really.
Just follow me.
These are four sixteenth notes. You Say Du-ta-de-ta. Again, it’s the ooh sound for the DU letters.
In this chapter this combination is added to the ones you already know.
Which are Du, Du-De, Du-uh, and Du-uh-uh-uh.
Let’s try four beat patterns in a steady beat. Echo me. Wait for me to say it and then you repeat it.
Du-ta-de-ta Du Du Du
Du-ta-de-ta Du Du-ta-de-ta Du
Du-uh Du-ta-de-ta Du
Du-De Du-De Du-ta-de-ta Du
Let’s review, a quarter note get’s one beat or count.
Du Du Du Du
A half note get’s two beats or counts. Du-uh Du-uh
and you’re hearing my snaps represent one beat
Whole note get’s four counts. Du-uh-uh-uh.
An eighth note get’s a half a count. Notice there are two syllables per snap
Du-De Du-De Du-De Du
and now the sixteenth note get’s one quarter of a beat or four syllables per snap.
Du-ta-de-ta Du-ta-de-ta Du-ta-de-ta Du
Now let’s start the engines. I’ll provide a steady beat.
You’ll see different patterns of sixteenths, eighths, quarters and half notes. These patterns will be four beats long.
You echo me where you see the whole note rest. We trade four beats. First me then you. Ready?
Du-ta-de-ta Du Du Du
Du-ta-de-ta Du Du-ta-de-ta Du
Du-ta-de-ta Du-ta-de-ta Du-ta-de-ta Du
Du-ta-de-ta Du Du-De Du
Du- De Du-De Du-ta-de-ta Du
Du-uh Du-ta-de-ta Du
Du Du-De Du-ta-de-ta Du
Du-ta-de-ta Du-ta-de-ta Du-uh.
Now see if you can do the syllables from just the sound and the symbols.
Du-ta-de-ta Du Du-ta-de-ta Du
Du-ta-de-ta Du-ta-de-ta Du-ta-de-ta Du
Du-ta-de-ta Du Du-De Du
Du-De Du-De Du-ta-de-ta Du
Du-uh Du-ta-de-ta Du
Du Du-De Du-ta-de-ta Du
Du-ta-de-ta Du-ta-de-ta Du-uh
OK Keep it up. Go back and do this video a few times.
Master these few ideas. Steady beat, Sixteenth, Eighth, Quarter, Half and Whole notes. Du-ta-de-ta is our new one.
Master these few ideas. Steady beat, Sixteenth, Eighth, Quarter, Half and Whole notes. Du-ta-de-ta is our new one.
Master these few ideas. Steady beat, Sixteenth, Eighth, Quarter, Half and Whole notes. Du-ta-de-ta is our new one.
Master these few ideas. Steady beat, Sixteenth, Eighth, Quarter, Half and Whole notes. Du-ta-de-ta is our new one.
Four beat patterns. Whole note rest.
Four beat patterns. Whole note rest.
Four beat patterns. Whole note rest.
OK, Bye!