That way you will be doubling the speed of your claps. Then play two notes at a time, that is, clap each time the metronome plays and also clap in the interval between one beat and another beat from the metronome. Start by playing one note at a time, that is, play your instrument, clap your hands, snap your fingers, tap your foot, whatever suits you, every time the metronome plays a beat. So it is important to train the following (with a metronome): Set a slow tempo, for example, 30 bpm (a beat lasts two seconds in this case). If any notes appeared with the figure of an eighth note, you would leave that note sounding half the time of a quarter note. That is, while the metronome plays, the interval between one beat and another on the metronome represents the length of a quarter note (it is the length that the note should sound). In the example we just gave, you would set the metronome to 120 bpm and use this time (listening to the metronome) for each quarter note of the song on that sheet music. The best way to play a song from sheet music is having a metronome beside you where you can set the length of the beats. Okay, but why don’t we say that a Quarter note is worth half a second instead of saying that it is worth “120 bpm”? This is because metronomes work in bpm. Going further, we can conclude that a beat/note lasts half a second in this case. Since one minute has 60 seconds, this is the same as saying “2 beats per second”. To say “120 beats per minute” means to say that the length of each beat or note is such that 120 of these can fit within a minute. This means that a Quarter note is worth 120 beats per minute. This length is given in bpm (beats per minute), that is, if it is written: Somewhere on the sheet music there will be how long a certain figure is worth (usually the value of a quarter note is informed) and the length of the other figures you will know by deduction. This reference will be provided by the song itself.įor example, let’s say you downloaded sheet music from the internet. Obviously, we need a time reference for these figures to make sense. Great, this example served for teaching purposes, but how do we know the real time (in seconds) that each figure represents? How do you know if the Thirty-second note is worth 1 second, for example? Is there any definition in this regard? Therefore, if the 32th note represented 1 second, a Whole note would represent 32 seconds. Note that 32 Thirty-second notes can fit within a Whole note. In this diagram, it is easy to see how the figures fit inside each other. For example, two eighth notes, one next to the other, Note: notice that the figures faster than the quarter note appear linked, forming blocks that correspond to one quarter note.
This example was important to introduce the idea that a Quarter Note can fit 2 Eighth Notes or 4 Sixteenth Notes or 8 Thirty-second Notes, etc. Let’s say the value of a quarter note is US$ 1.00. Let’s make it more practical now by taking it to real life. We chose the value 1 for the quarter note here just to have a reference. Let’s give you an example: if we assigned any value to these figures, let’s say, for example, that the value of the Quarter note is 1, we would have the following: The Quarter note, lasts half the time of the Half note and so on. In other words, the Half note lasts half the time of the Whole note. First of all, know that we have just shown the figures, in order, using the following logic: each figure shown lasts half the time of the previous figure.
Nice, but what is the time length of each one of these figures in practice? We’ll see that now. How can we know the time/duration of each note or chord in sheet music? By learning note values! See them below: The note values
Now that we’ve learned the representation of notes in sheet music, the time has come to study the note values.
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