How to Read Rhythm In Music

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Athena Reich and I'm a song-writer and music host here in New York City. In this clip I'm going to talk about how to read rhythm in music. There are different symbols to represent rhythm. So first of all here we have a quarter note, that gets one beat. Here are quarter notes... one, one, one, one. Half note gets two beat beat. One two, One two. Here's quarter note. One, one, one two. One, one, one two. Three beats. You guessed it. One two three, one two three. Four beats. One, two, three, four. That's called a whole note. So, quarter note, half note, dotted half note, hole note. Eighth note. These get fast. One and, one and, one and, one and. Just like that, so you can basically create rhythm by doing all sorts of combinations of these values of notes. This has been Athena Reich in New York City. One, one, one, one, one two."