Quarter, Eighth & Sixteenth Notes on the Djembe

Video Transcript

" Welcome back for Expert Village. I am Scott Swearingen at rythmpig.com where you can find my newest CD, which is actually my older CD because I am working on a new one now. By the time you see it I may have the new one up too. Let us talk about quarter notes, eighth notes and sixteenth note because that is the essence of drumming, these three, you are subdividing one beat into one or two before, so one it is a quarter note and two is the eighth note and four is sixteenth note and that is all you are doing with that. So if I play a beat one, two, three, four that is quarter note every four times it is called four, four time. One, two, three, four I just think in four, I count to four… one, two, three, four… one, two, three, four… one, two, three, four… one, two, three, four… it’s a quarter note… and that’s a good way to do it. Now, if I double that, it is called doubling or you can think of this way if I subdivide that one beat into two, I am playing eighth note… One and two and three and four, one and two and three and four, and one and two and three and four. One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four. One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four and you can just go back and forth doing this. Now, if I subdivide that into four that is called sixteenth note and you think of this one eighth and hand. So one, one hand, one, two and three and four, one, two and three and four, one, two and three and four, one, two, three, and four now what rhythm goes along with that, one, two, three, four and one, two, three, four and one, two, three, four… one, two, three, four and one, two, three, four and one, two, three, four and one, two, three, four… one, two, three, four,one, two, three, four and one, two, three, four and one, two, three, four"