And this whole note obviously can be subdivided into two half notes and each of the half notes into two quarter notes each of these quarter notes into two eighth notes, and so on.
Well, in music the most basic symbol for the beat is the quarter note.
A quarter note or crotchet followed by a dot is equivalent in duration to three 8th notes or quavers.
Set your metronome at around 50 beats per minute, where each beat is a quarter note. This is a legato exercise, intended to develop sensitivity between the tip of the tongue and the tip of the reed.
Thus a dotted half note or minim is equal in length to three quarter notes or crotchets.
So every gesture of the hand is going to be the equivalent of a quarter note.
How can we get a half note that actually equals now three quarter notes?
A double dotted half note or minim is equal in length to three quarter notes or crotchets and an 8th note or quaver.
For example, one four-beat measure could contain a single whole note held for all four beats, two half notes of two beats apiece, four quarter notes of a beat each, and so on.
Okay. So that's the music. Now having done this setup, if you think about it, and think about the fact that what note symbol gets the beat in our course - quarter note, okay.
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