pauly? derek? chuck? anyone who knows music stuff..

this is going to sound dumb, but seeing how i dont want to try and drive an hour away to ask my friend whom i dont know where he is anyway... I'm asking you all my BASIC as all hell music question.

my book says "rhythmic notation is relative to the time signature. 6/8 time means that an eighth note gets one beat and there are six beats per measure. therefore, the value of a note can change, but the relationship of one note to another remains the same. a quarter note can be worth one beat in one tune and two beats in another. BUT it always takes two quarter notes to equal the value of a half not, two eighth notes to equal the value of a quarter note and so forth"

can someone translate this into some other form of english for me? i know its the most basic thing ever, and I feel dumb not getting it, but ... well I never was a musician.

 

It's just basic fraction stuff.


1/4... is a quarter? Four beats in one measure a whole note, etc. Beat can change, but they still remain the same... as in one measure could be 1/8 and one could be 6/8, only that it still has whatever out of eight. It's like pizza... eight slices is always going to make the pizza... though some of them might be smaller or larger than the other, it always has to break even in one way or another, even if the person who cooked it went a little too wild with the pizza cutter.

I can't see how I can really break it down anymore... it's very simple, only worded really difficult for people who don't have basic theory or don't get math.

 

i get fractions. i just dont understand how to play it.

would i play 2 half notes more speedily, in order to be equivlent to a whole?

 

6/8

6 quater notes in a bar

 

if you just play 2 normal half notes ts equivilent to a whole


why are you learning this?

 

to play music.. why else?

 

.......if its just guitar you really dont need to know this stuff

but yeh if your trying to play harp.......good idea

 

It's like whining about not having a tachometer...

I just use my ear and gut feeling.

 

appalachain dulcimer.


though I do wish it was something else now, just so they would be more people around to help me. I dont know why music has never been a subject I can handle.

 

Oh, my dad, my neighbor, and I all play dulcimer... (as we live in Virginia and everyone automatically seems to know how to play dulcimer around here).

Is yours hammered?

 

no. the other kind. that you strum.

 

Never heard of a tachometre

although i left my tuner at my friends house last weekend and my guitar is getting worse and worse because i cant tune by ear/ to a piano for shiite

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachometer

 

Oh right the RPM's

hahaha my car doesnt have one, so when it starts screamin, i know i have to change gear....haha

 

yeh yeh i was at that exact site 5 minutes ago

 

Ahah... I just took a 2006 Toyota Tacoma home, but the thing is so sensitive that it stalls out if you don't floor it and half-clutch it when you take off.

Fuck it, rather get the crew cab chevrolet I was looking at for a grand more...

 

That was retarded.

 

Ahaha, don't ask me music questions. I honestly know nothing about music. I just fuck around until I find something that sounds good to me.

 

thats concerning, seeing how you're spending money on a music school.

my friend is going to major in music and cant read it. he can only do tabs. he's really good. but its .. odd to me. idk.

 

its not difficult to learn to read it...

Its just practise really, im trying to learn bass cleff at the moment, cuz it takes me too long to figure out what notes are what...