How to Read Music - Episode 4: Counting and Clapping

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Counting and clapping will help you to keep track of both the rhythm and beat of a song. Learn to count notes out loud and with clapping to get started sight reading your music. This is episode 4 of Soundfly's free course "How to Read Music." Watch the next video in the series here: • How to Read Music - Ep... .
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I didnt pay attention in class now I'm watching this

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i started laughing when you did the 16th notes, it sounded like some tribe chanting at a fire

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[@zerosick]

I read this on a music book but since i can't hear the beat on a book I searched for it here on youtube and this is by far the only best video i found

[@lubel9750]

😭😍 Thank you finally some teacher who know how to explain it not just play it.

[@afowler424]

I’m self teaching myself electric guitar so this helps, thanks!

[@ackerman7490]

Oml my teacher is asking us to make rhythms right now in my online lesson and I have been muting him out while watching anime. So I turned to you immediately. XD. Thanks mate.

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[@camelione119]

My school have tried to taught students like me how to read music for almost 5 years. Still I didn't know how to read and my exams has lower scores. So I thought I'm musically dumb. But this taught me for just 3 minutes and I realized I'm good at it! Schools spoil children into noober individuals. Thank youuuuu! This saved me a lot!

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POV: you’ve been sent here for school

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I really like how you explained. Thank you so much 🙌🙌🙌

[@Self-taughtJay]

I love to use my feet for the beat and clap with my hands for the rhythm. Thanks for the video and tips.

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Omg thank you so much this help me alot for my perform tomorrow

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My Teacher Posted This Video And I Learned Thanks!

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[@elizabethsavina6958]

Thanks, that was great. just about to start sight reading with my adult community choir.

[@parsakondori]

This is gonna help so much on the music test I have tomorrow xD

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My teacher was going to give us an assignment and it was just like this and when i watched this video its way easier much thank you

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holy, this was a life saver. I have a music test tomorrow, and I had no clue how to do this. thanks lots! :D

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Thaank you for giving some example
We really want a more video like this ❤❤

[@rebeccaayres7330]

Really helpful to show my students. Thank you

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Excellent!

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this was helpful.thanks!

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Thanks a lot... There is a performance in our school that tackles this kind of topic... This video helps a lot❤️

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Reading music is hard :(

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[@grethanisk00l84]

Ive been in band for three years,second chair these years,and dont know how to count and i have a duet with someone tomorrow in front of people 😩(were being judged by judges)

[@seanearnest]

Very helpful, thanks!

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now I understand notes. Thanks

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[@hanelshane597]

I like this cause this really helped with my homework

[@yudisanchez8517]

I need to make it to region band and I can read that 3 notes that are together

[@muffinhaveyouhadamuffintod2850]

This helped me out alot but does this work with guitar?

[@emilyaldrich634]

My teacher couldnt teach us this in a year, amd I understood this in 2.53... Wow, thanks for this

[@bwlodarczyk5211]

I’m having trouble figuring out the rhythm it’s 2 eighth notes then a slur of a half note and 1 eighth note that goes to the next section I’m not sure how I would count it
_+_+ __ |+ looks like that _-one beat

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can you make a video (handy only with hands) with all the measures.
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Can we use semiquavers in simple time signature?

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My teacher always teaches our class for at least 1 an hour and we need to do stacks of these exercises but after listening to this video, I can sleep when I was in the music lesson!!!

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I never knew there was an imagenary metronome always playing. Now that I know that, this makes perfect sense

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I didn't pay attention in my 6th grade class, now I'm watching these kinds of videos😭

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Helpful

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a great way of explaining..as you used music in ur video..thnx rly so much thnx

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I like it. I'm a music teacher as well

[@avlagamer]

How does interlocking six sixteen count work? Can somebody help me out?

[@nezeankookies4563]

Aside from clapping the beat what other activities the person suggested to practice the rhythm in music?

[@MikeRotchburn5000]

nice way of explaining

[@Manusca1]

I´m very glad I came across your videos. I´m trying to learn to read and write music but find it very confusing. I can now learn in my free time. I do have a question. Can these videos be watched in other languages other than English? The place where I live, we use the DO, RE, MI rather than the A B C, etc. system. Please let me know. Thank you very much. I love your videos.

[@zoeyoung7585]

Hi Margaret, sadly, the audio for our videos is only available in English. But each video does have a transcript that goes along with it that you might be able to put into Google Translate. Below the video on the right hand side, you'll see three dots. If you click there, you should have the option to "Open Transcript" and it'll open a box to the right with the text of the audio. Hope that helps!

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[@BrooklynSkinnyPigs]

How do you count in 6/8?

[@PARIGHOL]

it goes so fast. I don't get the clapping on the knees part :(

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[@patriciasinclair262]

is this for sixteen note and eight note?

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Me missing class and having to watch the video to understand the homework: 😭

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I have homework due tomorrow;-;

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The test=

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Will i didn't understand

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Works better than how I reported in my class -w-,. Seriously I only now 1 & a but now I suddenly went supernova

[@HotCoca]

thank you i couldnt remember how to count music for some reason

[@williamzhang2739]

Thanks, I have learnt piano for 1 years, and these rhythm problems always confuse me, but this video actually taught me a lot things that my piano teacher would never teach me.

[@tswanson23]

Hi so would you hold a dotted quarter note all the way through one and two and or would you let go right before getting to two being it's one and a 1/2

[@soundfly]

Good question. There are two ways to do this. If you're just counting 1 2 3 4, then you hold the dotted quarter note for 1 and 2 and clap between 2 and 3. The other way is to count 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + which has a little more precision, and then clap on the second "+" (the "+" is usually said as "and"). Does that help?

[@ALovelyDisaster]

Do you count a rest?

[@Rahul-fq9kf]

Thank you for this video. I am learning the same these days from my tutor. This is a good revision.

[@rickymartinez5614]

I like how he counted it

[@princealbertz]

This really helps thank you!

[@kentpolcyn1670]

The only thing that I do not understand, so far, is for 16th notes is the e and a. Where they fall in the beat (clapping).

[@lilliampumpernickle4655]

how do I count dotted quarter notes??

[@soundfly]

a dotted quarter note lasts for one and a half beats, so if you count "one & two &", you'd clap on the "one" and on the second "&"

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Harambee do you play an instrument 🙃

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Pulse