The 8 represents Eighth notes… in other words, each counted beat of the bar is equal in duration to one Eighth note… and as this bar has 6 counted beats… it means it can hold up to a maximum of 6. The next common number used at the bottom of Time Signatures is 8, as shown here with this bar of 6/8…(7) then a bar of 4/4 can also hold up to 8 Eighth notes…(4) or 16 Sixteenth notes…(5) or any number of notes with a combined duration equal to four Quarter notes…(6)ĭon’t worry if this is not making complete sense yet, I’m just getting started 🙂
So if a bar of 4/4 is four Quarter notes long. So a bar with the Time Signature 4/4 tells us that there are four counted beats per bar… and each counted beat is equal to a Quarter note… The top number of the Time Signature tells you the number of counted beats in the bar… The first is 4, telling us that each counted beat of the bar is equal to a Quarter note… the Second is 8 representing Eighth notes, and the third is 16 representing Sixteenth notes, but we’re look at these other two in a bit. It’s worth pointing that there are only 3 numbers commonly used at the bottom of Time Signatures. The bottom number of the Time Signature represents the duration of each counted beat… so, a 4 written at the bottom represents Quarter notes… Or, put another way, the Quarter note is going to be equal in duration to each counted beat of the bar…īecause of this, the bar is given a Time Signature of 4/4… (3), commonly known as “common time”, because a lot of music is commonly written with four counted beats per bar. So for example, lets say that this bar is four counted beats long…(1) and I want each counted beat to be represented by these Quarter notes…(2) I told you that, for most written music, a Quarter note is used to represent each counted beat of the bar.
The duration of a note is simply how long it lasts, or how much space it takes up within the bar. which in turn is equal in duration to four Sixteenth notes. We now know that a Quarter note is equal in duration to two Eighth notes. In the first video I introduced you to Time Signatures, Quarter notes, Eighth notes and Sixteenth notes.
#Drum tab notes full#
In this Second part of this video lesson, I want to introduce to you the full family of notes commonly used in written music, including triplets, rests and dotted notes.Ĭombined with the previous lesson, this will give you all of the tools necessary to read, understand and even write your own music notation for the drums. This is the script I used to record the 2nd and 3rd parts of this series… Spanish Translation – Download Spanish transcripts of the video lessons – CLICK HERE
#Drum tab notes how to#
View the video on YouTube HERE – Learn How To Read Drum Music Notation Charts & Scores – Free Video Drum Lessonįree Video Drum Lesson ( Part 2) – “How To Read Drum Music Notation”įree Video Drum Lesson ( Part 3) – “How To Read Drum Music Notation” These lessons are designed to take you from the very beginning of learning to read drum music, to the more advanced side of music notation.įree Video Drum Lesson ( Part 1) – “How To Read Drum Music Notation” I teach you everything, from notes to rests, as well as everything in between.
#Drum tab notes series#
Learn how to read music notation for the drums with this series of free video drum lessons.
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