music lesson 3

Here is a graphic representation ( a longer term for the word picture ) concerning the previous lesson..

In this picture, you will see the quarter, half and whole notes I was talking about. Try singing this short exercise while making a 4/4 beat with your right hand.Do not use your left The left hand performs the opposite manner ( going right instead of left on the 2nd beat, then going left instead of right on the 3rd beat ). Both left and right hand goes the same direction on the first and 4th beat! In basic music reading, you beat only with one hand, specifically the right hand. If you are right handed.

In advanced music reading ( conducting a choral group e.g. ) then you beat with two hands. When two hands conduct at the same time, they go the opposite way on the 2nd and the 3rd beat.

This short lesson by the way concerns basic music conducting ....



The symbol at the left of the staff is a twirling thingy called a CLEFT. A new term! This cleft IS CALLED THE G cleft. Another term for this cleft is the treble cleft.
There are 2 kinds of cleft: the treble and the bass cleft..

the treble cleft is called the G cleft,
the bass cleft is called the F cleft..

Next time I will show you how a F cleft looks like..

In a score or music sheet written for a piano, there are two staves for each melody line. Each staff is marked by an F and a G cleft side by side. These two staves are joined by a music term called BRACKET. Reason for the 2 staves? One staff is for the right hand, the other staff is for the left.

The trebel staff is what the right hand performs, the bass staff is what the left hand performs..
Again you will see these terms next time: I do not want to cram in too much terms in one lesson..I do not want you to choke!

Anyway just take a look and try to sing the simple children song by looking at the notes, the words ( called lyrics ) and the other music terms like the bars, the cleft, the time signature the number of measures from the start to the end of the song. It is always the number 8!
til next time!

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Here is a feedback from my buddy, Ben Soloria from Virginia..

Now that you got my curiosity, Maestro, how do the notes relate to the syllables in the lyrics?Is one syllable equivalent to a quarter note? For example, these lyrics --- "My love for you isdeep and endless as the sea, strong and mighty as a tree, my love for you." In this particular example, if I would write the notes, which syllables or words would be a quarter note or a whole note?Hey, just kidding. You don't have to explain that one cause no matter what kind of explanationyou give I'll probably won't comprehend it anyway. I learned to drive, I learned to swim and I learnedto cook but just can't have a way with music. Ciao. I'll keep up with the serial lessons.

Will answer your e-mail extensively next time, buddy!