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Kids Guitar -- Rhythm 2 - The Half Note By Professor Bruno Noteworthy of profbruno.com Allrighty! I’ve talked about the “whole note”. To review, the whole note gets 4 counts (or beats). In four-four (4/4) time, a whole note fills up a measure. Do you remember what a measure is? It’s those itty bitty parts that music gets divided into. In four-four time, each measure MUST contain 4 and only 4 counts. Now there are many different kinds of notes, but the point is that no matter how many different kinds of notes there are in a measure, their count values MUST add up to 4 if you are in four-four time. Are we okay with this? Let’s mooooove on. The next note I’m gonna show you is called the “half note” (See the picture at the bottom.) This puppy gets 2 counts. If I’m in four-four time, and if that means that I MUST have 4 counts in each measure, then it would take 2 half notes to fill up a measure. Remember, once I put a half note in a measure, I can’t also put a whole note in the same measure. Right? Toooooo many counts. Let’s look at this thing. Do ya see the line going out of the hole? That’s called the “stem”. If the stem goes up from the hole, the stem will always be on the right hand side. If the stem goes down from the hole, it will always be on the left. Why? I dunno. That’s just the way it’s done, and it looks neater that way when you have a bunch of notes floatin’ around on a piece of music. Okay… So let’s do an exercise! Take a look at the picture below that says “Exercise”. First pick a chord. Strum down once for every whole note letting it ring for 4 EVEN counts. When you see half notes, strum down and hold the chord for 2 EVEN counts. Here’s another way to say this just in case you’re confused. Strum once for every note that you see. but HOLD it for 4 counts for each whole note, and 2 counts for each half note. Count it out just like you see on the exercise. This will help ya. Now, once you have done that a few times and you become okay with it, start switching chords. There are 8 measures in the exercise. There are 8 basic chords. Soooooo: Play A in the first measure, C in the 2nd D in the 3rd E in the 4th G in the 5th Am in the 6th Dm in the 7th Em in the 8th Then…… mix it up. Play a different chord for EACH NOTE. Then keep mixing it up. Remember… Play each chord ON TIME. Count slowly enough so that you can do this, then little by little increase your speed. Faster and faster and faster and faster and….. well you get the picture. Have fun! Professor Bruno Noteworthy Contributor's Note Professor Bruno Noteworthy is a toon music professor who loves teaching the guitar to kids.

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Professor Bruno Noteworthy's Blog | Articles on Music and the Guitar

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The Half Note

2 half notes = 1 whole note

The Whole Note

Exercise

A chord [ 0 0 2 2 2 0 ]

C Chord [ x 3 2 0 1 0 ]

D Chord [ x 0 0 2 3 2 ]

E Chord [ 0 2 2 1 0 0 ]

G Chord [ 3 2 0 0 0 3 ]

Am Chord [ x 0 2 2 1 0 ]

Dm Chord [ x 0 0 2 3 1 ]

Em Chord [ 0 2 2 0 0 0 ]

Contributed by James Emery Vigh on May 14, 2010, at 6:04 AM UTC.

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Professor Bruno Noteworthy - Toon Music Professor for Kids Musical instrument lessons for kids www.profbruno.com

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I bet kids love music the way you teach it.

June Campbell May 14, 2010 12:22

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You make it sound so easy, James. I just might have to go buy a guitar!
But, how can I find time to comment on all of these intels?
Oh well, back to the reading.
Keep up the good work.
Best wishes.
Frederick

frederick May 14, 2010 16:06

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Interesting story. Thanks for sharing.

Sandyspider May 15, 2010 01:27

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