Presented at the Newton church of Christ2008

Lesson Three

*** NOTE ***1. This song has dotted notes.2. Ties3. Fermata4. Quarter, Eighth and

Sixteenth notes5. And a natural.

The Musical Dotted Note Values:

• QUESTION – HOW MANY BEATS DOES A DOTTED WHOLE NOTE GET? • A dot placed after a note increases the duration by 50%• The dot means we add half of the original value. = Add a half note to the length.• The original value is four beats.• Half of four is two.• Add four plus two and we have six.

• Therefore a dotted whole note is six beats long.

• QUESTION – HOW MANY BEATS DOES A DOTTED HALF NOTE GET?• A dot placed after a note increases the duration by 50%• The dot means we add half of the original value. = Add a quarter note to the length• The original value is two beats. • Half of two is one. • Add two plus one and we have three.

• Therefore a dotted half note is three beats long.

The Musical Dotted Note Values:

• QUESTION – HOW MANY BEATS DOES A DOTTED QUARTER NOTE GET? • A dot placed after a note increases the duration by 50%• The dot means we add half of the original value = Add an eighth note to the length

The Musical Dotted Note Values:

• QUESTION – HOW MANY BEATS DOES A DOTTED EIGHTH NOTE GET? • A dot placed after a note increases the duration by 50%• The dot means we add half of the original value. = Add an sixteenth note to the length

The Musical Dotted Note Values:

• QUESTION – HOW MANY BEATS DOES A DOTTED SIXTEENTH NOTE GET? • A dot placed after a note increases the duration by 50%• The dot means we add half of the original value. = Add an thirty second note to the length.

The Musical Dotted Note Values:

The Musical Rest Values:

• The Rest in Music is also a good time for you to breath before going on.

The curved lines, called ties, add the note values together

TIME and beats1.There is an easier method to describe the or contents of measures. Describing measures in whole units of time (in relationship to a whole note or whole rest) requires adding numerous decimals or fractions, which becomes tedious. In order to simplify the process, measures are more often described by beats. 2. Describing by beats means changing the value "1" from one whole unit of musical time to the bottom number of the time signature.

1. For example: Using the 4/4 time signature, there are four beats to the measure (top number of the time signature) and a quarter value is the beat (bottom number of the time signature).

Here's another look at the example:

Describing by the beat, the second measure contains two half notes which, in 4/4 time each have a 'beat value' of 2; together 2 + 2 = 4 beats. The second measure contains notes and rests whose beat values, when added together = 4. There are four beats to the measure. The third measure contains two quarter notes and one half note. Described using beats: 1 + 1 + 2 = 4 again, four beats to the measure. The fourth measure: a quarter rest, half note and quarter note. 1 + 2 + 1 = 4 Fifth measure: a whole rest. 4 = 4