Writing Classical Music Scales in A Flat (Ab)

Video Transcript

"So here is the actual scale A flat major written out for both hands. We have treble clef which is our right hand and Bass clef for our left hand so bass notes are down here high notes are up here. We have for four flats, so we know we are in A flat, one, two, three, four. You see that in each staff, this is our A flat, so we start right here. This is our one, and each line is a different step in the scale. So we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Just like when we went over our pattern. So really get that down and that we are staying inside our A flat pattern. The same for the bass clef except for the one starts on the bottom space instead of the second space. We count up one, two, three, four, five, six ,seven. So we are going to use this as a basis to finding your notes when we play in a flat major. Now if we look over here we have a couple of simple of rhythms that we are going to be going over. First of all there are four beats in a measure, so this is a half note and it gets 2 beats. A quarter note gets one beat, two 8th notes gets one beat and four 16th notes get1 beat. Then you have 32nd notes and it keeps dividing, 64th notes. Right now we are going to concentrate on the basics right here, now if you have a note with a dot behind it, it gets it value plus half its value. So say a dotted half note would get three beats whereas a dotted quarter note would get one and a half beats. So now we are going to take this information and utilize it as we go through and read our tune in A flat major, Bach Prelude 1."