dylan asked:
I just started to learn how to read music and im learning guitar and my question is, with a whole beat would you hit the string four times or just play it for four beats. And the same thing with a half beat (2beats). Anything helps and thanks!
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Learning to Read Music
Whole note gets 4 beats.
Don’t hit the string four times.
The same goes for half notes and quarter notes.
Half notes=2
Quarter notes=1
etc.
Learn How to Read Music Notes
Just hit it once. If you were supposed to hit it four times then the music would have four one-beat notes.
Learn How to Read Music
Yeah what Will the Guitar Guy said is correct. Also another thing you want to know if you already dont is the way you count rhythm. Surprisingly I have met a lot of people that dont know this.
So for the common four beats in music its 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4…
those are quarter notes if a note is played on each number.
then for eight notes its counted as 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1….
then four sixteenths its 1 e & uh 2 e & uh 3 e & uh 4 e & uh 1…
I spelled the uh phonetically but its actually written as an “a”
Learn How to Read Music
You play a whole note one time for a length of four beats.
You play a half note one time for a length of two beats.