In this lecture, we're all gonna put on our music hats for a little bit, and learn some basic music terminology that will help us understand the concepts of when to cut music, where to cut music, which are so useful when editing. So, I have, I have the instrumental track of what I showed you in the last lecture that song from audio socket. And let's zoom in. I'm going to full screen here, because we don't have any video, we can just look at the waveform. I'm going to play through a little bit so we get a sense of the song. But before even playing through, check out the waveform.

You can see distinct sections of the song from here to here, looks different than from here to here. And then this is Another section, another one, you can just tell by the difference of the visual waveform. So let's listen for that as it plays All right, pretty cool track. The first thing I want to go over is what is a beat a beat in music. If you're a writer, film writer, you might know the word beat by a pause, you might take a beat. And in music What a beat refers to everyone says, Listen to the beat, or you feel a b. a b is just one unit of time that keeps repeating.

And when when it keeps repeating. That's how you have your tempo. And people know tempo. Inherently, if you feel the kick drum and you listen to music, and you find yourself bobbing your head or tapping your foot, that's the tempo. And every time you tap your foot, that's a beat. So you already know this stuff.

We're just putting a name to it. So let's listen to this intro again. I just was saying be on each beat of the tempo. And don't worry if this is all a little confusing, because the reason we want to know B is to be able to tell a bar. And yes, we all want to go to the bar right now. But a bar is a series of beats before it repeats.

And this is really important because if you start recognizing where the bar finishes and starts, that is your blueprint to where you cut the music. So check this out. Okay, So we just counted through four bars. And you guessed it, those four bars create a measure. And you don't really have to remember all the names and the terms, but musically, we went through four bars. And now with different variations of instruments and all that those four bars are going to start repeating.

So let's say we wanted to get to this part faster. We had a vo over here something and we still wanted this part, but it took too long. Instead of just like randomly chopping it here, if we start cutting on the bar after every four beats, already, that's a good start to getting our music cuts to line up. In addition to bars and beats, it's also good to know the names of the different type parts of the song. So again, visually, we'll call this the intro. This could be called the verse or the chorus.

The chorus is normally the biggest. So just look at the waveform. That's where the most instruments are. That's our chorus. So if you're making a video where you want it big and loud right away, just go for the chorus. Let's hear what happens here.

So that would be called a bridge. And then here we're into either an interlude or a verse. And again, I'm telling you the names of it. So you could start referring to the sections for yourself. But the names themselves aren't really important. It's important to understand the structure of a song, if you start understanding, okay, most songs will have a structure of a softer intro, and then when the beat kicks in, that's taking us to a different place in the song.

Then halfway through, we're going to get some sort of interlude where some instruments drop out, maybe we shift chord progressions, some change and then We'll go back into a chorus and then maybe a solo or a bread and then an outro. With a final chorus, what I just described is like 99% of the songs you can find in stock footage. And knowing that structure will let you cut the perfect parts of your songs into your video without having to listen to the whole thing without having to go back and compare was like, Oh, do I want that part or that part? You can start by saying do I want soft or loud? Do I want fast or slow? Do I want impact or subtlety?

And just by that visually, you'd say okay, I'm gonna go intro first, then chorus or chorus, then intro, and then another chorus. Just knowing a little bit about song structure and timing will help you pick which parts of the songs should go in your video.