][=][.][.][\/][ Poison Girl asked:
I need a quick and easy and free site i can go to, to learn how to read simple Music, like eighth notes whole notes and such, and how meny beats they get.
i would appreciate ur answer so much
Tags: How To Read Music, Learn Music, Music Notes
Learning to Read Music
I don’t think there is but….
A quarter note gets one beat
An 8th note gets one half of a beat
A half note gets 2 beats
A whole note gets 4 beats
If a dot follows a note, you take half the beat and add it onto itself.
Example: A half note with a dot following it gets 3 beats.
Half of a half note is 1 beat, plus 2 beats for the
original half note, = 3 beats
There are also more divisions of notes.
If you divide an 8th note in half, you get a 16th note.
A 16th note gets 1 fourth of a beat.
One of the most common time signatures you will find is 4/4 time.
A time signature tells how many beats are in a measure, and which note gets the beat.
So in 4/4 time, there will be 4 notes in a measure and the quarter note gets the beat.
I hope you understand a little better now, this took me a long time to write!!!!!!