In this section we're going to look at how to create rhythm by using what are called note values. The term note value refers to the duration that any given note or chord should be held for your note values that are equal to one beat, longer than one beat, and shorter than one beat. Remember, when I say beat, I'm referring to the pulse. Let's start with our first note value, which is one of those that is longer than one beat. The whole note, also known as the semi brief, is indicated by a circle called ahead on any given line or space of the stave. A whole note is held for a whole bar.

In other words for beats. If you see a whole note in a bar of music, it will be the only note or chord in that bar. Since by its very nature, it takes up the whole bar. So if you were to see a whole note on the fourth space of the state, for argument's sake, you play the note E, which as you know can be heard by playing your high E open string and hold For four beats, of course, the rate that those beats are moving at depends on the tempo of the music. Let's look at a real example and analyze it step by step, we'd start all the way on the left hand side and check for any key signatures. In this instance, there isn't one, so we know that all the notes on the stave are natural.

Next, look at the time signature. There's a common time symbol, which as you know, means that we're dealing with a meter of four beats to a bar. Next up, we check out the tempo, we can see that the pulse is moving at a rate of 70 beats per minute. So we will play it at that tempo by using a metronome to keep us in time. Now we can look at the actual notes on the stave. We want to understand two things about the notes.

One, their pitch, ie, what is the actual note you're playing and to the note value. In other words, how long does it last for them In Baldwin is an E note. That's the notes pitch. The second thing we noticed is that the note is a whole note, and that is its note value. So we know to play the high E string and hold it for four counts or one bar. There are only four bars in the short piece of music and as you can see, they're all identical.

Now that we have all the information we need, it's time to play through the example. We're going to start by setting the metronome to 70 beats per minute. It's common practice to leave a bar empty before the music starts where we just count along with the metronome and get in sync with the tempo before starting to play like this. 1234 Now obviously chords can and do have no values to. Here's an example which is almost identical to the one before. The only difference is that we now have a chord made of whole notes in bars one and three.

As I'm sure you've already worked out to play this chord, we would simply play the GP and E open strings. Once again, we just have an E note making up bars two and four. So here's how you play through this example. Remember the counting bar before we start to play 1234 music isn't all just continuous sound. Silence is just as important if you want to indicate silence for the duration Have a whole note, you would use what is called a hole wrist, otherwise known as the semibreve wrist, the whole wrist looks like a colored and rectangle hanging from the fourth line of the stave. This indicates that there should be silence for one whole bar.

This example is almost exactly the same as the one before, except that now we have a whole wrist in ball three, which indicates that they should be sons for this whole ball. This is how you play it 1234 in the next lesson, we're going to write all these examples that are manuscript books. But before getting there, you may want to just go through this video one more time, just to make sure you can play all the examples we covered