hi I'm Svenya and welcome to rhythm too I hope you watched rhythm video one
where we learned about whole notes half notes quarter notes and eighth notes
remember that we practice these rhythms with words du two three four four the
whole notes du two four half notes du four quarter
notes and du de for two eighth notes you can see that I moved to the rhythm
and I encourage you to do the same it really helps you feel the rhythm in your
body now on to more rhythms wow these are some strange-looking ones let's
start with this group of four notes it looks like doubled up eighths notes
and that's what it is they are called sixteenth notes and are twice as fast as
its notes let's practice saying them du-ta-de-ta du-ta-de-ta two one two
three four one two three four so you can see that four of these sixteenth notes
fit into one of our beat notes our dew notes or quarter notes let's try a
rhythm together du du-de du-ta-de-ta du-de du-ta-de-ta du-de du du now let's move on to tied
notes these are notes that are on the same position on the staff linked by a
curved line called a tie this means that we say or play the first note
then continue to hold it for the length of the second note sounds kind of
complicated let me show you how it works with another example du du du du du de du de du...2 du ta de ta du d
it's kind of tricky but these kind of rhythms are
worth learning listen to the last rhythm again bah bah bah bah
really fun and remember you can always pause a video go back and try again
by the way often you will see a curved line over several notes that are on
different positions on the staff that is not a tie but a slur and I will explain
that in a later video here we have notes that have a dot behind them they're
called dotted notes the dot makes them one and a half times longer than the
note so here we have a dotted quarter note and we have to add half a quarter
note to its length that means we have to add an eighth note we
could think of it as tying an eighth note to the quarter note like this or
here we have a dotted half note here we have to add a quarter note because a
quarter note is half as long as a half note trying to do it together again with
an example
Du...2..3... Du du..De Du... Du..De Du De Du 2..3.. du
here is one more rhythm that I want you to learn these notes are called
triplets tree or tri is another word for three like in triangle so we squeeze
three notes into one quarter note instead of just two
with eighth notes we say Du da di one two three one two three du da di
ready for another rhythm example du du du da di du du da di du du da di du now look
at what we've already learned so one more important thing that we need to
learn our rests rests tell you when to sing or play nothing you might wonder
why that is important well just like with speaking if you don't add pauses it
sounds very strange if I would talk without deposit would sound very weird
and would be like a run-on sentences that would get you into trouble when
writing then that sounds bad so we need pauses in music and they're called rests
here they are the best way to understand them is by comparing them to the length
of notes the whole rest is a short bar hanging from the second line the half
rest is a short bar lying on the third line the quarter rest is kind of
complicated it's it's mostly in the two middle spaces of the staff the eighth
rests has one little dot just like the eighth note has one flag and it fills
the two middle spaces the sixteenth rest has two little dots like the two flags
of the sixteenth note and it fills the bottom three spaces whew
we covered a lot of ground time for our last two examples when you see the
rhythm words in parentheses under the rests you can just whisper them like I
just did with the tied notes or the dotted notes so let's go Du du du du de du
2..3..4. du ta de ta du du..2 alright are you ready for the grand finale do you know
what that means grand means great and finale means end
so the great end so we're gonna do one rhythm together and that's gonna be
quite tricky let's try it du dude du du du da di du du da di du du de du ta de ta du de du du..2 du..2 du..2..3..4
all right this is not easy but
remember you can always do it again watch the video again as often as you
like last but not least keep practicing rhythm with our fun online games and
quizzes and until next time always be musical