Posts Tagged ‘quavers’
Clapping rhythms is a good way of learning to keep time.
A solid beat will help develope your sense of timing.
This has the knock on effect of helping develope a consistent strum and will help lead playing.
Part 1:
Learning to count: 1 2 3 4
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The above picture indicates 4 beats to the bar, these beats are called ‘crotchets’.
Listen to the audio example again and try to do it yourself.
Remember to keep your clapping consistent and solid.
Try and do it more than once without stopping.
Try: 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
Part 2:
1 2 + 3 4
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The above rhythm introduces two ‘quavers’ – this gives us ’2+’ spoken as ’2 and’
1 2 and 3 4
Listen to the audio above and try it yourself.
Exercise 1: Try and count and clap at the same time.
Exercise 2: Try and count and clap at the same time but repeat as many times as possible without speeding up or stopping – 1 2 and 3 4 1 2 and 3 4 1 2 and 3 4 1 2 and 3 4 etc
Part 3:
More rhythms to clap,
1 2 + 3 4+
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1 2 + 3 + 4
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1 2 + 3 + 4 +
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Related Reading:
Best read before attempting to understand the midi drum lessons/articles on this site.
If you landed on this page and are looking for midi drum files only read this.
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I’m going to use the staff view in Sonar and the Piano Roll in Reaper.
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First let’s get a bit of knowledge -
A bar with 4 crotchets
This is a crotchet.
The first image above shows 4 ‘crotchet’ beats per bar.
This is called 4/4 time,
The bottom ’4′ tells us what type of beat(crotchet).
The top ’4′ tells us how many.
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Below we have 2 bars of 4 beats…
In Reapers piano roll it would look like this,
count added using photoshop
We would count this ’1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4′
Play and count along…
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o—> Kick and Snare
Look at the pictures below…
Kick Snare
In Reaper looks like this,
Kick on beats 1 and 3 - Snare on 2 and 4
Play and count along…1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
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—o–>>> Hi-Hats
Now let’s have a look at hi-hats…
In Reaper it looks like this,
Hi Hats Closed - Quaver Beats - Straight 8ths
Play and count along…
We would count this,
‘ 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2+ 3+ 4 +’
+ = ‘and’
so we say – ’1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and’
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The above pictures both show 8 beats per bar – these are called 8ths or Quaver Beats.
The Quaver
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1 Crotchet = 2 quaver beats
We had 4 crotchet beats per bar,
So now we have 8 quaver beats…
–o–>>> Open Hi Hats
Below we have changed closed hi-hats for open hi-hats
Again we would count,
‘ 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2+ 3+ 4 +’
Listen
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Let’s recap.
4/4 means 4 crotchet beats per bar counted 1 2 3 4
2 Quavers = 1 crotchet therefore a straight 8 would be 1+2+3+4+
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Learning to count this helps us understand a little better.
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Let’s look at the following simple straight 8 rock beat…
In Reaper it looks like this,
Listen
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The picture above shows us,
‘Kick’ on beats 1 and 3
‘Snare’ on 2 and 4
‘Closed Hi-Hat’ on beats 1+2+3+4+
more to come…