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Music Reading: the tie, dotted notes and other rhythmic figures (Part 8)

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Other rhythmic figures

In today’s lesson we will end this cycle of video lessons in which you have learned many new rhythmic figures.

Today we will improve even more our skills in music reading.

In fact you will find many new music reading exercises to practice with all the different figures.

But, maybe more important, we will introduce 2 new rhythmic figures. We will learn them from a theoretical point of view and understand how to read them.
Even in this case you will be able to immediately play them, thanks to some practical video exercises.

After all these video lessons you have reached a high level in music reading!

Learning material of this lesson

7 videos 21 mins
1. Introduction to the new lesson 2m 23s
2. First figure: eight note rest and a couple of semiquavers 3m 40s
3. Practice (first figure) 1m 57s
4. Exercise to learn to play (first figure) 2m 23s
5. Second figure: dotted crotchet and a couple of semiquavers 7m 05s
6. Practice (second figure) 1m 42s
7. Exercise to learn to play (second figure) 2m 52s
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Music Reading: the tie, dotted notes and other rhythmic figures (Part 7)

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Double dotted quavers

Today we will cover a very important rhythmic figure:

The double dotted quaver.

This is a very common figure but since it is quite complex to read, people often find some difficutlies with it.
For this reason today we will learn in depth how to read double dotted quavers.

In this lessons we will cover many other topics such as:

    • what are demisemiquavers
    • how to read demisemiquavers
    • how to read double dotted quaver plus a demisemiquaver
    • how to play double dotted quaver plus a demisemiquaver

To make the most of the material in this lesson, I suggest you to read the Introduction page of this cycle of lessons. (go to link).

The exercise to learn to play double dotted quavers

Learning material of this lesson

6 videos 27 mins
1. Introduction to the new lesson 4m 09s
2. What are demisemiquavers and how to read them 5m 36s
3. Double dotted quavers (theory) 6m 04s
4. Double dotted quavers (practice) 6m 34s
5. Music reading practice 1m 44s
6. The exercise to learn to play double dotted quavers 2m 33s
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Music Reading: the tie, dotted notes and other rhythmic figures (Part 6)

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Double dotted crotchets

What is a double dotted crotchet? It is an essential and very common rhytmic figure:

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Today we will focus on this new essential musical element: we will learn double dotted crotchets in depth and practice through many music reading exercises.

As usual you will also find a video to learn to play double dotted crotchets.

To make the most of  the material  in this lesson, I suggest you to read the Introduction page of this cycle of lessons. (go to link).

Have a good lesson!

Learning material of this lesson

4 videos 19 mins
1. Introduction to the new lesson 2m 12s
2. Double dotted crotchet (theory and practice) 12m 59s
3. Music reading practice 1m 59s
4. Exercise to learn to play double dotted crotchets 2m 24s
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Music Reading: the tie, dotted notes and other rhythmic figures (Part 5)

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Double dotted notes

Up to  now we have covered many different elements to prolong the sound, such as dotted notes, tie, etcetera

Today we will introduce some new essential tools in music reading, double dotted notes.

How do we read double dotted notes?

Toady we will focus on this very important topic.

As usual you will find several music reading exercises to put into practice everything you learn.

To make the most of  the material  in this lesson, I suggest you to read the Introduction page of this cycle of lessons. (go to link).

Learning material of this lesson

4 videos 14 mins
1. Introduction to the new lesson 2m 23s
2. Double dotted notes: how to read them 6m 40s
3. Music reading practice 1m 54s
4. Exercise to learn to play double dotted minime 2m 51s
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Music Reading: the tie, dotted notes and other rhythmic figures (Part 4)

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Dotted quavers

What are the dotted quavers?

How can we read them?

Today we will focus on this new musical element and we will also introduce a very common rhythmic figure made up of a dotted quaver and a semiquaver:

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We will learn in depth how to read and play this figure.

Moreover we will practice by mixing all the different musical elements that we already know with the new rhythmic figur

To make the most of the material in this lesson, I suggest you to read the Introduction page of this cycle of lessons. (go to link).

Have a good lesson!

Learning material of this lesson

5 videos 21 mins
1. Introduction to the new lesson 2m 33s
2. The dotted quaver (theory) 2m 41s
3. The dotted quaver (practice) 11m 22s
4. Music reading practice 2m 26s
5. Exercise to play the dotted quaver 2m 08s
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Music Reading: the tie, dotted notes and other rhythmic figures (Part 3)

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Dottes notes

Today we introduce something fundamental in music writing:

The dotted notes.

  • What are dotted notes?
  • What effect do they have on notes?
  • How can we read and write dotted notes?

These are only some of the questions we will answer.

Moreover as in all lessons, you will find lots of music reading exercises with audio podcast for practice.

Have a good lesson!

Learning material of this lesson

6 videos 23 mins
1. Introduction to the new lesson 2m 45s
2. Dotted notes 3m 43s
3. The dotted crotchet 5m 56s
4. A trick to read music as best as possible with dotted notes 5m 30s
5. The practical exercise of music reading 2m 58s
6. The exercise to learn to play dotted notes 2m 08s
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Music Reading: the tie, dotted notes and other rhythmic figures (Part 2)

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The group made up of a quaver and a couple of semiquavers

In the lesson today, we will introduce a new and very important rhythmic figure:

The group made up of a quaver and a couple of semiquavers:

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This figure is used very much in written music and therefore it is very important to learn to read it well.

Today will learn to read music correctly and learn to do practical exercises which allow you to play the music immediately on your instrument.

To make the most of the material in this lesson, I suggest you to read the Introduction page of this cycle of lessons. (go to link).

Have a good lesson!

Learning material of this lesson

6 videos 18 mins
1. Introduction to the new lesson 3m 31s
2. The difference between the tie and the slur 3m 15s
3. The quaver group plus semiquaver couple: theoretical explanation (part 1) 6m 59s
4. The quaver group plus semiquaver couple: theoretical explanation (part 2) 6m 53s
5. Practical exercise 2m 30s
6. Exercise to learn to play the quaver group plus the semiquaver couple 2m 04s
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Music Reading: the tie, dotted notes and other rhythmic figures (Part 1)

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New rhythmic figures: the tie

In the lesson today we get to know how to read some new rhythmic figures.

In particular we will concentrate on the tie.
This is one of the rhythmic figures which are most used in music to lengthen the duration of the sound.

Today we will learn the best way to read this in music, even in the most difficult cases.

To understand how to use the material found in this lesson, I suggest you to read the introduction to this cycle of lessons (see link).

Have a good lesson!

Learning material of this lesson

8 videos 34 mins
1. Introduction to the new cycle of lessons 3m 44s
2. What is the tie 6m 31s
3. How to read the tie 5m 26s
4. Another example of reading the tie 3m 13s
5. Practical exercise with the tie 2m 56s
6. Exercise to learn to play 1 8m 17s
7. Exercise to learn to play 2 2m 28s
8. How to make the most of the exercises in attachment 1m 52s
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Music Reading: the tie, dotted notes and other rhythmic figures (Introduction)

solfeggioThe tie, dotted notes and other rhythmic figures

I want to introduce a new cycle of video lessons in which we will learn many rhythmic figures.

In these lessons we will focus on many essential topics such as:

  • the tie
  • dotted notes
  • double dotted notes
  • other common figures

Every lesson is made up of videos, pdf files and audio files.
To make the most from the material of these lessons it is advisable to follow the videos first and then to practice with the pdf and audio files.

I suggest to skip to the next lesson only when every topic is clear and after some practice.

Every lesson is made up of:

1. Introduction to the lesson

2. Theoretical explanation of the new rhythmic figure

3. How to read the new rhythmic figure

4. Music reading practice

5. Pdf file with exercises and corresponding audio files

6. Video Exercise to learn to play the new rhythmic figure

It is advisable to use the last video exercise only after learning in depth the new rhythmic figure and practiced a lot with it.

Below you find the link to the corrisponding lessons:

Music Reading: the tie, dotted notes and other rhythmic figures (part 1)

Music Reading: the tie, dotted notes and other rhythmic figures (part 2)

Music Reading: the tie, dotted notes and other rhythmic figures (part 3)

Music Reading: the tie, dotted notes and other rhythmic figures (part 4)

Music Reading: the tie, dotted notes and other rhythmic figures (part 5)

Music Reading: the tie, dotted notes and other rhythmic figures (part 6)

Music Reading: the tie, dotted notes and other rhythmic figures (part 7)

Music Reading: the tie, dotted notes and other rhythmic figures (part 8)

The 52 essential music reading exercises (part 6)

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More complex exercises

Today we will conclude the lessons on the study of fundamental music reading exercises.

We will do this with some exercises which begin to be more complex. In fact we will put together everything that we have learned up to now:

  • Read notes of different pitch and duration
  • Carrry out disjunct motions to different extents
  • Mix different figures (minime, crotchet, quaver, semi quaver)
  • Read groups of semiquavers with disjunct motions

Without realizing you have progressively learned to read music using basic rhythmic figures.

You can immediately apply all this in order to read music and play it on your instrument

Now you are ready to take a new step: to learn new and more complex rhythmic figures.

Learning material of this lesson

Video Introduction to exercises
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+ 7 audio files
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