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Music Notes - Guitar Lessons - Rhythms 1

After you learn music notes and rhythms, reading tab or standard music notation will be right around the corner!

Here are the four basic types of music notes:

 

Learn the 4 basic types of music notes

 

Examples of a rhythm used in 1 measure:

 

  How rhythms are written and counted within one measure of music. Standard and Tab notation are shown
 
 
 
 


Whole Note
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Half Notes
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Quarter Notes
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Eighth Notes
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Examples of mixed rhythms used in 1 measure

 

 

How mixed rhythms look and sound in a measure of music. Standard and Tab notation are shown
 
 
 


1/4 & 1/2 notes
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1/4, 1/8, & 1/2 notes
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1/4 & 1/8 notes
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  • Listen to each rhythm

  • Play each rhythm while counting out loud

  • Practice each rhythm with the metronome

  • Try to play each rhythm with the audio clip

Rhythm is an undeniable force not just in music, rhythm is our heartbeat....


Rhythm is Rock and Roll!!

 

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