Welcome back, and we're going to be moving on to song of the wind. There's some things that I want to talk about here, before we get started. And the first thing that we're going to look at is this time signature. It's the first time we've seen this time signature. It's generally written as a number on the top, followed by a line and a number on the bottom. And you can see here that I'm a for over four.

However, this key signature is a two over for a time signature tells us a couple things. And what it tells us is that on the bottom part of this four here, it tells us that a quarter note gets the beat. And what it means is if I take a whole note and divide it by four, I get one beat. Now, because the one or a quarter note gets the beat that A quarter note is equal to one. Now, the top part here just says that there's four beats in a measure. And remember that these measures are outlined by measure lines, we know what measures are.

In this particular case of this song is still a four on the bottom, where a quarter note gets the beat, but on the top it tells us to, and what that tells us is there's only two beats per measure. There's some other things in the song that we want to be aware of. This is the first time that we've ever seen a rest. And I've drawn out what a rest looks like. And there's all sorts of different types of rest. There's whole rest.

There's half breasts, and there's eighth rests. This happens to be quarter rest, a whole rest would get four beats, a half rest would get two beats, just like a half note, and a whole note, a quarter rest would equal to one beat, or a quarter note, and an eighth rest would equal one of these guys, these eighth notes, one half of a beat. And we can see that are a couple rests in our song. And when we come upon arrest, it just means we simply don't play in that in that space that we see the rest happen. Now, some other counting things that we're going to do, we're going to break it up into short notes and long notes to make it easier for us to count. But we're just going to go over basic example of how this works.

Since there's two beats in a measure, each one of these eighth notes counts as one half of a beat since they're one half of a beat. can count one and two and or think of the mathematically like half and half equals one half and half equals two, this equals my two beats that I'm looking for in the first measure. The same thing happens here in the second measure where I have two eighth notes, and two eighth notes. This equals one beat together, so a half and a half equals one and a half and a half equals one. Therefore, I get my two beats by adding them together. Okay, what we're going to think of However, when we look at these different notes, we're going to break up the two different types of notes in our mind, and we're going to think of the long notes that we see as quarter notes, and the short notes that we see as eighth notes.

And we're going to call the short notes short or eighth notes. so short, short, short, short, short, short, short, short, short, short, short, long and now this rescue also gets a long count to short short short, short, long rest, short short, short, short, short, short, short, short, short, short, short, short, short, short, long, short, short, short, short, short, short, short, short, short, short, short, short, long rest. Now we have a basic idea of the rhythm of the song, there's going to be some more difficult parts of the song in some small areas that we want to take a look at and practice more often. So that we can take care of those spots and get better at them so we can play the song all the way through without having to stop and muscle our way through a certain part. The parts that are in the song, so we have these parts of the song right here.

1331 Open rest happens again right here 1331 open rest. And the reason why they're difficult is because we're switching strings right away. And we're changing our fingers as we're switching strings. So this is a new skill that we're kind of learning and overcoming. So I'm going to play just these parts slow. And we're going to tackle these parts first before we start to learn something together.

So we're going to play one on the east string followed by three on the A string sounds like this. Okay, after I played those one and three on the string and a string, then these notes follow the three and the one on the east string. Now together, they seem simplistic in nature, why don't I put them together? I have to move my boat rather quickly to tie them in time. So what you do for an exercise before you get too far into the song is you simply play 13311331 but can never stop until you feel like you can do a pretty good example of how you practice this measure. And once you get comfortable with playing it at a certain speed and try to play it a little faster.

Once we have that, we're going to incorporate this long note followed by a rest. So we have short, short, short, short, long note rest notes. Looks like this sounds like this. So I'm gonna play it a few times. And if you'd like you can follow. Rest.

Rest, I'm resetting my rest. Right. Now I think we're ready to start the song. I'm gonna make sure that I write some of these notes in for you as we're moving along. So we'll start on the A string, then we get up to this E string Open. Now, notice that I'm only having one open or one zero for you here.

Because the consequent notes after that are zero. So since you see the first zero, we don't have to continually write zeros for us. Also, the further that we get in to reading music, the less fingers markings we're going to have. Because hopefully, we're learning with our eyeballs to look at these notes that we see. Rather than looking at these finger numbers. Eventually, we'll be able to look at these notes versus look at the fingers and know exactly what to play without having to rely on the finger numbers.

So we're at the second measure and we're playing opens on the first string. This is this hard part that we worked on the 13331 open. It happens again. repeats itself. And now we have open three on the second string. All of these notes here on the second string 332222111, open to open, Eastern again, open 333 a string 3222 a string 2111 open aim.

So I'm going to play the song for you all the way through. On the second time through I want you to join in as an exercise and we're going to play the song rather slow. It's very typical in music. After there be arrest To start with a down bow, although because this is a more of a beginning song, it's not necessary for us to do so. So you can use the bow that you feel most comfortable with when we go through the exercise. So here we go.

I want to play this first, you're going to play along with the second time. And I'm also going to play it a third time, so you have another chance to be able to play along with the song before I play the song, together with you, when we played this quickly, where we go 1331 open, here's a little trick that can help us have some success early. Watch my fingers. So I have one three. And I'm playing the three with my third finger. But now to be able to play the E string, this three that we see.

I'm simply going to rock my finger down so that It covers up the E string. That way, I don't have to pick it up off the string instead of down on the E string. So let's look at this the slow motion. One more time, so you can see the collapsing of the finger. Not everybody has joints that can collapse that way. But if you do, don't be afraid to use it.

And if you can't get your fingers to collapse, it's okay to set take that finger quickly move over to the other string and move move around like normal. Okay, so I'm going to play this song for you all the way through from beginning to end. And then on the second time through after you've had a chance to listen to it the first time, get ready, because as soon as this note comes by again, you're going to want to play with me, and then I'm going to play One more time. So I'm gonna play through, then you're gonna play it with me. We're gonna repeat and then you'll play with me again till the end of the song. So here we go.

Rest we go rest rest If you're not able to keep up with the speed that I played at, in this exercise, we can take our drum tracks that we have and play along to a speed that feels comfortable to you. Try to think of those first two beats as long B's tick, tick. And then our bone moves with as fast as the next tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. Alright, so now that we know how to play along with a drum track, go out there, practice the song, get good at these hard parts first, so when we get to them, we don't have to slow down so we can play in real time with that drum track. And that's your goal for yourself. And as soon As you're ready, we'll be ready for the next lesson and we'll see you there.