What to write?

In my previous blogs I have talked about what you need now its time to answer that question “what do I write in those lines?” The next step is to figure what key you want to use. Now then you got your treble clef on standby in your staff paper the second thought is “how do I measure the rhythm in this?”

 The answer to that question is with number but with one on top of the other. This picture will show you what I mean…..

These are called Time Signatures and those number go next to your treble or bass clef.

There are nine time signature that I know of but I want to focus on this because it is the most common one in music.

Now the way how this works it to pay attention to the song you are listening and count to four then count again. GO 1-2-3-4 and see if you can catch the rhythm of the song you are listening to.

The reason why that is once you count to 1-4 and each one is called a beat and after once you count to four that is what we call a “measure” depending on what time signature you use but in this case it’s on the 4^th beat.

 For people who get paid counting this must be easy but remember they have to count back and forth for the whole song which could be time consuming but that depends how fast/long they sing it and what part gets the 4^th beat.

Not everyone can get it one go. I for one am one of those people where I had to constantly go back and forth counting on which took me a while. This is an example of what I did in my Music Theory class in college where I had to count the chorus and figure out how high/low/slow/fast the rhythm goes.