The 16th Note Theory in Bossa Nova

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Shaun Schaefer on behalf of Expert Village and today we are going to be learning how to play a bossa nova drum beat. So now that we know how to hold the drum sticks and there is one other thing we have to do before we get started like regarding the bossa nova. That is a little bit of music theory and notes if you will. We are going to be dealing with or counting with 16th notes today for the bossa nova drum beat. Now there is different types of notes that have different types of values. So if we take one bar of music or one measure you have 4 quarter notes. 1 quarter note equals 1 quarter of the bar that is why they are called that. Then you have 8th notes which are there is 8 notes in a bar or each quarter note gets 2 notes a 1 and a and. Then you also have a 16th notes and 16 notes there is 16 notes in one measure or in one bar. Each quarter note gets you guess it 4 notes. Now the way that we count that is 1, e and ah. So if we count one whole full bar of 16 notes it is 1, E, and, ah, 2, E, and, ah, 3, e, and, ah, 4, e, and, ah. So 1, e, and, ah that is how you count 16th notes. That is kind of the time that we are going to use to count our bossa nova drum beat. So let's go ahead and take a look at the next step. "