Ukejenny
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This short video does a great job of explaining how the pitch and rhythm works on a musical staff. Very well done.
As someone who's been reading music most of my life, I found it a bit simplistic, but pretty accurate and a decent introduction, although the comparison between Beethoven and (Justin) Bieber kinda made me roll my eyes.
The only qualm I have is when they talked about bar lines and how the space between the bar lines was called a bar. Sounds more like how a blues musician or rocker would refer to it. In classical training, it is generally referred to as a measure.
As someone who's been reading music most of my life, I found it a bit simplistic, but pretty accurate and a decent introduction, although the comparison between Beethoven and (Justin) Bieber kinda made me roll my eyes.
The only qualm I have is when they talked about bar lines and how the space between the bar lines was called a bar. Sounds more like how a blues musician or rocker would refer to it. In classical training, it is generally referred to as a measure.
As someone who's been reading music most of my life, I found it a bit simplistic, but pretty accurate and a decent introduction, although the comparison between Beethoven and (Justin) Bieber kinda made me roll my eyes.
The only qualm I have is when they talked about bar lines and how the space between the bar lines was called a bar. Sounds more like how a blues musician or rocker would refer to it. In classical training, it is generally referred to as a measure.
That is one of the things I felt was good about the video. The information isn't given from the perspective of someone classically trained. I have a degree in music education and find that, sometimes, my background actually makes it more confusing to people who want to know the facts, especially if I go off on a tangent.
... I wonder if this is a geographical thing rather than to do with a genre of music. The narrator in the video would seem to not be from the Americas. Sounds rather more English, with perhaps a hint of Australia or New Zealand in the accent. I'd always known this to be a bar until relatively recently. I actually had to use an on-line search to ensure I was understanding the use of the term measure correctlywhen they talked about bar lines and how the space between the bar lines was called a bar. Sounds more like how a blues musician or rocker would refer to it. In classical training, it is generally referred to as a measure.
As someone who's been reading music most of my life, I found it a bit simplistic, but pretty accurate and a decent introduction, although the comparison between Beethoven and (Justin) Bieber kinda made me roll my eyes.
The only qualm I have is when they talked about bar lines and how the space between the bar lines was called a bar. Sounds more like how a blues musician or rocker would refer to it. In classical training, it is generally referred to as a measure.
....just watched the fillum ...makes sense to me and I read stave as well...
@itsme ...well it would be simplistic it is aimed at those who do not read stave and are probably too embarrassed to ask how because they may run into an intellectual giant who could read it from the womb.
Sorry, to butt in on your very nice and polite thread in this manner UkeJenny but us Blues /Rockers have an opinion too ...we generally keep it on the down-low though........ however there is a limit rolleyes