Eighth Notes, Triplets, & Sixteenths: Everything You Need to Know

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Everything is based on the beat. Simple rhythms are one beat or longer but subdivisions break the beat down into 2, 3, or 4+ equal parts. Quarter notes turn into eighth notes, which turn into sixteenth notes, and even more.
Chapters
0:00 - Introduction
0:28 - Subdivision: Into the Quantum Realm
0:55 - Eighth Notes
2:20 - Syncopation
3:07 - Dotted Quarter Notes
4:16 - Sixteenth Notes
5:46 - Combining Sixteenth Notes & Eighths
7:30 - Smaller Subdivisons(32nd, 64th, 128th, 256th)
8:25 - Tuplets
9:18 - Pickups and Subdivisions
9:59 - Ties and Subdivisions
10:46 - Conclusion
Other instalments of this series:
Part 1: Rhythm Basics - • Rhythms: The Fundamentals
Coming soon!
Part 3: Compound, Complex, & Multi Meter(6/8, 2/2, cut time, etc)
Part 4: Swing: When Eighths Go Rogue
Part 5: Metric Madess (clave, hemiola, and all kinds of odds and sods)
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[@Crown1923DC]

I didn't expect to get rickrolled when I'm learning about rhythm :v

[@BradHarrison]

;-)

[@dovydas4483]

Best video on rhythm and subdivision I've watched

[@mayanmoon999]

You make learning so easy,thank you,your circle of 5ths is my favorite!

[@BradHarrison]

Thanks so much!!

[@jayromemerrera1118]

This lessons will definitely enhance my reading skills of a piece. Thankyou So much keep it up❤

[@janicecramp5704]

This by far the best presentation I have found on rhythm. Thank you

[@starfighter2952]

I really wish i had these videos years ago. I would have progressed so much feaster. I had to figure out all this on my own. When i finally took guitar lessons from a teacher he was amazed that i could read sheet music. So important to learn to read music.

[@Matt_Johnson_Music]

Nicely Explained. Thanks, Brad!

[@anniemccary5814]

Great lesson. Thank you

[@DesertRat332]

Good lesson! I could have used this video when I was taking snare drum lessons many decades ago. Just break everything down to the smallest beat. I really like your examples. Pieces I recognize but I had never seen written out. Wow.

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Was waiting for this 😅😀

[@BradHarrison]

Hope you enjoy it!

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[@BradHarrison]

Ha! Love it.

[@johanarias9988]

Your videos are awesome! thanks.

[@gunterishii4231]

I am addicted to your videos!

[@bikibird]

Thank you for your rhythm videos. Really getting a lot out of them. Please make more and finish the series.

[@BradHarrison]

Great! Part 3 just got released. I’m hoping to do a couple more later this year, but those three cover the majority of concepts I see on a daily basis.

[@kartheesh6913]

This is quality content 🔥

[@Jose_diazlife]

thank u so much! sooo helpful thank u!

[@positiveharmony7230]

Nice explanation short and touching. Hope that other parts will upload soon

[@BradHarrison]

Glad you enjoyed! Part 3 just uploaded last week!

[@positiveharmony7230]

Thank you. Keep doing it

[@els1f]

Masterfully Rick rolled lol

[@wyllamysdasilva1843]

Sensacional 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@paulsiwy6097]

I'm loving this tutorial series on Rythms. Even spelling the word seems odd. I would love a book or booklet on rhythms to have something to refer back to from time to time. Any chance you might market something like that, even in an ebook? Your videos provide an extremely easy way to understand rhythms. I look forward to the next installment.

[@BradHarrison]

So glad you’re enjoying! I do have some resources available to members of the channel. I’m planning to continue to build those up over time and if there are requests for specific resources, I’ll try to fulfil them if I can. kzbin.info/door/5EEcOixvGwVFVsHXWYehHgjoin

[@patfiddles]

Excellent video- dealing with Rhythms and Beats was like walking and chewing gum for me- teachers always wanted me to learn this by ear, but your visual representations really help bring this home- the pizzas are great, but the way you shade in the beats (red and blue) over the notes (and underneath the pizzas) addresses a lot of my confusion. The beat isn't the "tick" itself as much as the time interval between the ticks.

[@anjalikhushlani]

Your videos are very helpful .... plz post other parts as well. and plz tell us more about tuplets and it's types

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[@pseudonymeantipersonnelle2190]

Super cool as always. I would not complain on non western music theory like Indian konnakol or Japanese scales

[@Zzsillykitty_Vi]

9:57 frozen

[@ryuaoyama2580]

9:48 bro just rickrolled haha!

[@user-vq7mm6yt4x]

Syncopation!

[@asianmonkey8798]

Nice video man ....also, Can someone send over the link for part 3?

[@BradHarrison]

It’ll be coming soon! Got a few more videos in production ahead of it though.

[@youranwu8594]

Really gud

[@TheBrightSide101]

10:45 the licc

[@lijajedega]

THE RICK ROLL

[@BradHarrison]

There are many Rick rolls! I’m never gonna give them up.

[@wyllamysdasilva1843]

Boa tarde maestro aula maravilhosa 👍 Seria possível acrescentar uma legenda em português nos vídeos? É que entendo pouco inglês 👍👍🎼🎹🎶

[@BradHarrison]

KZbin will auto-translate captions to Portuguese. Hope that helps!

[@wyllamysdasilva1843]

Ok 👍

[@hinatwinz917]

When will part 3 come?!

[@BradHarrison]

Next month!

[@hinatwinz917]

Next month has passed and it’s still not here?

[@BradHarrison]

March isn’t quite over yet….

[@BradHarrison]

I was planning to finish for this weekend but I’m gonna need a few more days. Soon though!!

[@BradHarrison]

Finally got it done! Took a while but I think I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. Time Signatures in Music Explained kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3TKlYKNhKuVi7c

[@SithlLordMayuri]

Anacrusis and the modification of time sounds like a book I'd read

[@BradHarrison]

Right? I was pretty proud of that one.

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@@BradHarrison that'd be a pretty cool name for a book with a music based magic system

[@habadababa31415]

There's a little mistake at 9:16 :)

[@BradHarrison]

Ugh, tragic. At least it’s pretty minor. I’m a one person operation, so errors do slip in.

[@habadababa31415]

@@BradHarrison It's ok, great video as always tho

[@BradHarrison]

@habadababa31415 thanks!!

[@sudathjayaweera4593]

Thank you very much for your lessons except the Rick roll

[@BradHarrison]

Never gonna give up the rick roll.

[@lilyofluck371]

Orly

[@kimsannmao5147]

It's fast tepo

[@nombregenerico2206]

What do I do if I need the 17 tuplets on four beats? I'm kidding really, it's 25 tuplets

[@BradHarrison]

Honestly, it’s going to be nearly impossible to feel it properly so I’d get used to playing it like 16ths(16 in 4 beats) and then just rush a tiny bit to get 17 in and land on 1 of the next bar. 25 is the same idea except it’s 4 sextuplets plus one extra note. I know you’re just kidding but that’s probably how I’d handle it.

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