Introduction to Music for those wanting to become musicians, or improve their musicianship Music symbols, part 2 As we look into more symbols a reminder of how we will talk about symbols in this series. I divide symbols into a few categories: 1) Articulations; 2) Accidentals; 3) Dynamics; 4) Tempo or rhythm; 5) Ornamentations and […]
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Introduction to Music for those wanting to become musicans, or improve their musicianship Music symbols, part 1 First of all, notice the time signature is “C”. That is known as Common Time which is the same as 4/4 time. Let’s take a break from rhythm and counting and look at various symbols that can affect […]
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Native Instruments Driver Plugin
Driver Plugin Native Instruments came out with a free (through 12/31/2012) plugin called Driver. I did a first-look video of it on YouTube [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd2VZsK6btM] Hope you enjoy it. Please check out my website for free sheet music and links to all 6 of my currently available albums.
Introduction to Music for those wanting to become musicans, or improve their musicianship Time Signatures and Counting Up until now we’ve talked about each measure having 4 beats and the quarter note equaling one beat. Can we have 20 beats in a measure? Can the 8th note equal one beat? Yes, to both questions. But […]
Introduction to Music for those wanting to become musicans, or improve their musicianship Measures and rhythm Rhythm is the relationship of note values to one another and their placement in a measure. A measure is the space between the two bar lines. We are measuring beats. If we say that a 1/4 note is one […]