Understanding Beats, Bars, & Time Signatures | You Suck at Drums #1

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Starting that time signature playlist with hey ya is the meanest thing I've ever seen

[@foo162]

tried it....im scared im right hoping im wrong lmao but im guessing 11/8 ???

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[@LibertyRecordProductions]

The correct use of the word bar refers only to the vertical line itself, while the word measure refers to the beats contained between bars.

[@MrSimonKei]

Hi Bob. Most of the internet seems to have vast un-noticed assumptions /taken-for-granteds that they are completely unaware of, and therefore their answers to what is -time signature, beat, bar, tempo etc DO NOT actually answer WHAT the thing IS. You started SO clearly, and I followed you EVERY step. FIRST time I actually got told what the two sides of 4/4 actually ARE. Confession: I SUCK AT BEAT. (Hence why I am trying to learn to master it). Nearly everybody seems to know what beat is, but I just hear different sounds, including silences. As I mention below, when you teach something, you are forced to really pull it apart into small baby pieces you hardly even know you "just know". I am HOPING my case can help you take the last leap to ELIMINATE beat-ignorance at its worst! :-) (There must be more of me out there who form a large population in need!) In that light (note that I am notorious for NOT hearing beat/bar AT ALL) - I got lost at about 9:32. It would be GREAT if you changed your photo of the 'bar' to have blocks where the bottles repeat in a row of shelves, and different numbers of bottles on each block-shelf?.. - When you said "It seems like the emphasis is not on every beat, big X, its on the 1 and the 4, (cue piles of beetroot! in front of bar...ok, so what is repeating in that bar shelf where he has put the beetroots?... hmmm, nothing I can see relates at all), I was LOST... - looking at the beet, and the shelves and bottles, and replaying the sound... "ONE two three FOUR five six"....(I got 4 stuck in my head for a start "-but there are SIX beats... Not divisible for 4 or 8...Que?!... Then I got "oh, the FOUR is the first part of the next counting, so it is really 3 beats per 'segment' between emphases... so 3time? Jig?... Well, at least that is half of six, so THAT makes sense... Then you choose 8 - EIGHT? Not divisible by 3. So where did the 8 come from?... Suddenly, tutorial lets go of my hand and ends. Also - I do not get how if you do NOT want to nod your head (presumably the bits you want to emphasise?/catch your attention?) for every beat, then you INCREASE the number of beats. Why would you increase them if the current lot are as fast as you want to nod?... (irredeemable darkness is probably what you see, like HOW can someone be so dim...?! But another problem I get is not one part attracts my attention more than another. Different notes themselves are attractive, and Silences also are another kind of note. HOW do you pick???!! I know YOU must have beat SOOoooo embedded - so maybe some aspects are still part of you and as a teacher you haven't yet broken them out? Can you help on this? At the next level, the fact there are 6 beats per bar... I'm GUESSING that you subconsciously KNOW you need to take standard musical note-lengths and choose the length that will fit to make six beats happen before the end of the bar. But here again, the LENGTH of time between notes IS NOT fixed (as a standard... right?? -or wrong?). So for me, I still have no idea how to choose what size of note to use as the base. HELP! CAN you see where my darkness is and shed light? Might this light help those of us who are so deep in ignorance as I am? (Careful how you answer, lol!! - but seriously?) And for freedom of musical expression, I am assuming the composer sometimes wants to change the emphasis (my guess is your ONE and FOUR was based on a louder note, or a sudden deeper note that was repeating at a steady interval. But then THAT (the ones you chose) emphasis does Not tally with either 6 or 8... it is based on 3's...? Finally, when there are different length notes in a piece, and I am trying to "keep my time", I would reallly like to hear some click for the fastest notes for instance, then I can count between those to ones that only come every so often, though not necessarily regularly as to make a ONE..FOUR type emphasis, but just for me as a player to look out for in my speed of fingering (guitar as it happens). I have embarked on a tough mission for someone handicapped as I am: to learn to finger-pick Lindsey Buckingham's "Never going back again". Would you listen to it and tell me what you think the time signature is? I think it might make an excellent teaching vehicle (for your work?); I'm told MOST (even really good) guitarists find this piece very challenging to play. You see, there are a LOT of notes, very fast. You may say "Follow the base notes". But the tough interval is the faster high notes. I am sure I end up with slightly different length silences each side of a high note between base beat notes, and think if I could set the click on the metronome to THAT, the big/base notes would take care of themselves. But I cannot figure how to get the metronome set. (it is "soundbrenner"). NOT having the fastest beat as my guide, I have to GUESS in that silence between beats, WHEN I should sound my quick high notes. It is (at my stage) too hit and miss. I need to 'get in time' with something before my fingers can begin to habituate to the right speed for those 'in-betweeny short notes'. My goal at minimum is to know how I can set my Metronome (yes, I bought one of those things I KNEW I would NEVER want to use!...) so that I can at least get those fast high notes at the right intervals. That song surely does NOT sound right (in my rendering of it at present)- or even recognisable to my ear, despite having ALL the notes right, and beginning to approach the right speed. Fair to say I have always resisted beat as I find it monotonous. But Lindsey's piece is anything but, especially at the speed he plays it! NOW I NEED accurate beat! Would your answers to my questions ADD VALUE to your Number 1 tutorial?... and gather in us really handicapped types! Very BEST wishes to you, your tutorial is ALREADY a light year ahead of anything else I've found. 🙂 Here is a delightful version for your reference, especially with Mick Fleetwood's joy/delight in PLAYING DRUMS TO THIS!: -FLEETWOOD MAC. NEVER GOING BACK AGAIN. KZbin ·evie1942 ·21 Oct 2010

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Wonderbelly: What time signature would this be? Filename: 6/8.wav Me: No idea

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You could get away with calling it 12/8

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could be a 3/2

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