Time Signatures
At the beginning of each piece of music, after the bass clef, is the time signature.
The time signature indicates the number of beats per bar (the top number) and the type of note receiving one beat (the bottom number). For example:
Thus in * time there must be the equivalent of 4 quarter notes per bar, e.g.:
* is the most common time signature and is sometimes represented by the symbol called common time.
Another popular time signature is ^ time, indicating 3 quarter note beats per bar, e.g.:
The ) time signature is indicated by six eighth notes per bar. The eighth notes are usually compound into groups of three, e.g.:
Class Sessions
1- INTRODUCTION
2- Notes on Bass Fretboard
3- Glossary of Musical Terms
4- Play Position
5- The Basic of Music
6- Tuning
7- The 12 Bar Blues Progression
8- The Metronome
9- Interval Chart
10- Music Staff
11- Tuning The Bass to Itself
12- Riffs
13- The Right Hand
14- Notation
15- Notes
16- The Left Hand
17- Electronic Tuners
18- Eighth Note Feel(<span class="symbolA">5</span>)
19- Walking Bass
20- Fretboard Diagram
21- Note Values
22- Basic Quarter Note Feel(<span class="symbolA">3</span>)
23- Tuning with Harmonics
24- The Tie
25- Dotted Quarter Note
26- Combinations of Open Strings and Fretted Notes
27- Open Strings Note
28- Quarter Note Rests(<span class="symbolA">h</span>)
29- The Tie
30- Time Signatures
31- Three Four Time
32- Half Time Feel
33- Half Notes(<span class="symbolA">1</span>) and Half Rests(<span class="symbolA">g</span>)
34- Six Eight Time
35- Eighth Note Triplets
36- The Major Scale
37- Shuffle Rhythm
38- The Octave
39- Whole Note(<span class="symbolA">`</span>)
40- Chords and Arpeggios
41- Lead-in