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Old 05-27-2010, 09:19 PM   #23
Flint
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Originally Posted by squirell nutkin View Post
know = experience
Right. People say you have to "feel it" and that is literally true. Music involves theory which is absorbed via muscle memory.

Here is a good example of what note subdivisions are. The song starts with 8 quarter notes, two measures (bars) of 4/4. If they kept doing this for one full minute, you could count up all the quarter notes to get the beats-per-minute tempo.

INTRO (bar 1), quarter notes..|..INTRO (bar 2), quarter notes......
tick......tick......tick......tick...|...tick......tick......tick......tick.......
1..........2..........3..........4....|....1..........2..........3..........4.......

When the song kicks in (0:06), the hi-hat goes to 8th notes (the hi-hat is being struck twice as often, but the song hasn't increased in tempo). The quarter notes are now being played alternately between the bass drum and snare drum. Bass drum takes the 1 and 3, snare drum takes the 2 and 4.

Bass/Snare, quarter notes
boom....CRACK....boom....CRACK
1..........2..........3..........4........
Hi-Hat, eighth notes
1....2....3....4....5....6....7....8....
tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick



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Last edited by Flint; 05-27-2010 at 10:25 PM.
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