So if you’re playing a bunch of quarter notes, you’ll be able to fit two quarter notes inside of each half beat. This means the metronome should be set to 120 beats, and each of those ticks equals 1 half note. Cut timeįinally, another common tempo is the half note beat in cut time. With each tick of the metronome, I think “1-2-3, 1-2-3,” and count until I feel comfortable with the rhythm. 3 of these quarter notes fit inside each tick, like so.įor this example (and others like it), I like to get a three-count in my head before starting to play. In the example we were just looking at, we have left hand quarter notes. Here’s our 60 BPM metronome ticking away again. Each tick of the metronome represents one dotted half note. That means that, with each tick of the metronome, three quarter beats will pass by. How many beats does a dotted half note receive? We still have our number marking as 60 BPM, but this time we have a dotted half note in front of it. Make sense? Tempo markings in music: Dotted notesĭotted notes present us a different challenge. Here’s the sixteenth note pattern we were just looking at. Our metronome is set to 60 still, but this time, instead of ticking quarter notes, it’s ticking eighth notes. Let’s hop to the keyboard and try it out. Take a look at this left hand sixteenth note pattern – this means we would play two sixteenth notes per tick. When you set the metronome to 60 with this example, 1 eighth note equals 1 tick. This is telling us that there are 60 eighth beats per minute. Here we have the same tempo number – 60 beats per minute – except this time there’s an eighth note in front of the number. That’s pretty simple so far, right? Where it can get a little confusing is when the note in front of the number isn’t a quarter beat. If I were to play eighth notes along with this quarter note beat, there would be two notes for every tick – like this. So if I were to play quarter notes with this beat, the keys I press would match the ticking, like so. Each of these ticks represents a quarter note beat. The quarter note in front of it is simply saying that there are 60 quarter-note beats per minute in this particular piece. So if a piece is marked “60 BPM”, it means it’s as fast as a clock ticks (60 beats per minute). This number tells you how many beats per minute a piece is. This is really simple – Justin B correctly assumed it’s the metronome number. Let’s start by talking about what the number means. Here in North America, we use the words “quarter note” and “half note”, but in Britain and elsewhere, they use “crotchet” and “minim”. Just to clarify, a crotchet is a quarter note, and a minim is a half note – the words we use for these notes depend on region. If you’ve ever been confused by random Italian in your music like allegro, or aren’t sure what the quarter notes, half notes and so on before the number means, then keep watching! ? It’s a pretty straightforward answer so this won’t be a hugely long video, but it’s an important topic that I’ve yet to discuss on this channel. If a quaver goes before a semi-quaver, there is only a single beam.In today’s video, we’re going to answer a question about tempo markings in music. You will notice that when a semi-quaver goes before the quaver that the double beam only goes half way across. There are five different clusters of semi-quaver/quaver groups that you need to recognise. When semi-quavers are beside quavers, they can be joined together to show the underlying crotchet beat. It will depend on the other notes around them as to whether it will be a group of two or four. They can also be joined together as a group of 2: Semi-quavers are also joined into groups but with a double beam. However, the quavers on the second beat cannot be grouped to the quavers on the third beat: The quavers on the first beat can be grouped to the quavers on the second beat and the quavers on the third beat can be grouped to the quavers on the fourth. With 4 crotchet beats, the bar is divided into strong, weak, strong, weak beats. The groupings must clearly show the crotchet beats and the strong & weak parts of the bar. It will depend on the time signature and the other notes in the bar as to whether to group in lots of two or four. Quavers need to be grouped together to show the underlying crotchet beat. We join quavers together with a single beam. Notes that are smaller than a crotchet in duration (quavers & semi-quavers) need to be joined together if there are more than one of them side by side.
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