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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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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.

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Video Introduction to exercises
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Here is the key to learn to read musical notes

solfeggioHow to read musical notes

Today we start our path into the world of reading musical notes.
If you will follow the path where I will lead you, musical writing will not appear as obscure as it probably was for you up to now.

To try to progressively under stand these concepts, we will try to put ourselves into the shoes of those who listen to music and want to find a musical aplhabet to represent it graphically.

With the videos that follow you will learn some fundamental concepts that will allow you to learn to read musical notes.

Learning material of this lesson

2 videos 11 mins
1. How to graphically represent music 4m 13s
2. The properties of sound 7m 04s
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