Aug 08
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I hope this mini piano tutorial has helped you with your piano lessons. We are up to our final lesson in this series called Note Values. So lets get started.
In this lesson we will look at three different types of notes with different beat values. In Notes on the staff you learned what a note was called when written on a line or space. In this section we will learn what type of note is being written and how many beats that note is worth.
First we will start with a note type that as been used throughout your lessons so far.
This is a Crotchet and is worth 1 beat
Now let us look at the shape. A black circle with a stick. The stick can go up or down. Notice that the stick is pointing down from the circle on the left hand side. If it were pointing up it would be on the right hand side.
There are no hard and fast rules as to when the stick should point up or down.
Look at this selection of notes
Here you can see from D to A the sticks are pointing up then from B onwards the sticks are pointing down.
This keeps the music neat and leaves room for chord symbols or lyrics to be written above or below the staff but the point to this is that if the sticks from B onwards had there sticks pointing upwards it would still be a Crotchet. So again think of a Crotchet as a black circle with a stick.
Next note is a Minim.
This is a Minim and is worth 2 beats
Think of this note as a clear circle with a stick.
Next note is a Semibreve
This is a a Semibreve and is worth 4 beats
Think of this note as a clear circle on its own (no sticks)
This lesson goes a lot further in my Beginners Piano Course and shows you how to count these notes in an example piece of music of music called “The New World Symphony”. There are also five more lessons to complete.
Here is a list of the five remaining lessons in my Beginners Piano Course.
06 Hand position
Here we look at the hand shape and position on the keyboard.
07 Five finger exercise
This is your first exercise to get those fingers working.
08 Read the notes you are playing
Here you will read the notes in the 5-finger exercise.
09 Finger numbers
Learn what each fingers number is.
10 Play your first piece of music
Here you will play your first piece of music with your right hand
If you feel you can complete this Beginners Piano Course you can download it now. Remember, you get all ten lessons in a PDF book. You can print out what you need and if you ever need help you can always email me or ask a question on my blog.
Download the complete Beginners Piano Course Here
Here’s to your piano playing success.
Mike Shaw
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