So here we come to our first node value, which is less than one beat at the eighth note, which as you know, has a value of half a beat. And the way you draw an eighth note is similar to the way you would draw a quarter note as a colored in here down the stem, but it also has a little tail call the flag goes off to the right. And notice that regardless of whether a note has its stem pointing up or down, the flag always goes off to the right like this. And you can join two eighth notes to make up a coordinate value. So for example, two notes, both eight notes joined by a common flag. The way you would count this is one end if it fell on the first beat, obviously, if it was on the second beat up to end, and the reason we canceled like that is just to effectively split each beat exactly in half, one and two, and three and four.

And now you can join for eight notes as well with a common flag. Now, you'd only do it this way, if the beats that you were looking at were one and two, or three and four, you wouldn't do it for beats two and three. And the reason is that you want to keep the bass split evenly in half. So, for example, if you had something like this quarter note followed by two eighth notes, another two eighth notes and another coordinate. What you wouldn't do is join beats two and three like that with a combination lag. It's just not it's just not best practice.

So we want to keep beats two and three apart. So you would, you would not have that you not have the flag joining or four, you would have just a flag joining these two, and these two, so it would look like this. quarter note, two eighth notes making up a second beat to eighth notes making up the third beat and one quarter note making up the final beat. That is a better way to write that. This example, even though the values perfectly legitimately add up to four, that's one, that's two, that's three, and that's full. You just wouldn't join them in that way.

This is a better way to join them. Okay, so next let's look at our first example. Put our four four time signature. And once again, the four bars. Notice how I've joined beats one and two, and beats three and four. So I'm just going to carry on throughout the rest of the state.

Okay, so now we have full bars, all made up of eight months 18 It's provided. And once again, the way we would count this would be one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and etc. So they're all just units. In the next example, we're just going to put a chord on the first eighth note of every bar. Okay, now notice in this example, the note values. I have identical to the one above, it's just that we have a chord making up the first eighth notes of every by instead of a single note.

That's the only difference. Now the next thing we want to tackle is just an eighth rest, which indicates silence for half a beat when you do an eighth rest is by doing almost something that looks like a seven, which starts on the space which would normally represent C, and comes down to the second line. So that would indicate a half a beats sons. It's quite easy to draw. So in our last example, we want to add the eighth wrist to some of the beats in the bar. So I'm gonna start by doing exactly Do the same as before.

Notice that when we get to the first half of the second beat, in both two, you're going to have science indicated by an eighth rest, and then the second half of the second beat will be an eighth note and E. The rest is the same. Once again, when we get to the fourth ball, we want to indicate silence again once again on the second first half of the second beat as an atheist And then we resume with the regular. Okay, so the way we would count that, of course is as before, it's just that you would emit sound where we see the wrists. So one and two and three and four, and one and two. And so maybe if I clapped it would be easier to hear. So to be one and two, and three and four, and one and two, and three and four.

Now the only thing left to add is what if you have two eighth notes joined by common flag? Which one Should you point this things if they are far apart so for example, we have a C, it's a middle C here, and C here. As you know, this C would normally have a stem pointing upwards and this C would have a stem pointing downwards. Well, what do you do is then point point this both stems in the direction of the first note. So it could be like this at the pointing stem, at one pointing stem, and a bit of a slanty flag to join them both. If it was the other way around and we had this C followed by middle C. And of course we do the opposite.

But what the flowerpot but you get the picture. So you always want to point the stem in the direction of the first eighth note of a group of eighth notes.