Let's take a moment to learn our note lengths. Sometimes we have really long notes, and really short notes, some notes in between. and we need to be able to figure out what they look like and their definitions, so we can play them in the right order. long notes, short notes, and everything in between. So we have notes that look like this. And these notes are called whole notes.

Pretend that's a perfect circle, by the way, so it's a whole note. whole notes are worth four beats. So when we're playing our instrument, it would if your beat structure is one, two, Three for your bowling would be for all those four beats. So if you had just a single beat, that'd be if it was 123 fourths, but I'm going to drag my bow for the entire length of for every type of note that I present to you after this is going to be divided by two. So instead of four beats, that'll be two. So a half note looks very similar to a whole note, and notice it's not filled in, there's just a circle with a space in the middle.

Now, the only difference here is that it's two beats. And the difference of how it looks is that you'd have this stem on it So, half note with a stem, two beats half note. So when I play my violin, if I beat structure is 1234, my bowl is going to be dragging across the violin for those whole two beats. So now for the next one, it's going to look really similar to a half note. So a circle with a stem, except the difference is, instead of it being unfilled, it's going to be filled in. And remember that every set of different notes that we present is going to be divided by two.

So If I divide four by two, I get two, right? And if I do that, again, I split it in half essentially is what I'm doing. I'm going to have what's called a quarter note. And that equals one beat, one beat. And if we play our violin to it, and our beat structure is 1234. I'm going to play several of these individual one quarter note.

One beats, so 1234 All right. Now, if I divide that again, or I split it in half, if I get one half of a beat now, it's going to look like this. It's really similar to what we've had so far. And everything is almost exactly like like the whole note was almost like a half note except it had a stem quarter note as almost like a half note except it's filled in. Now we have this eighth note and it looks exactly like the quarter note except it has a little flag on it. And when we put two of them together, right side by side, they were going to have the flag that attaches both stems together.

Now if this is one half of a beat, one half of a beat ends up happening is you have one and two, and three, and four. And so it breaks it up into semi beats are happy. So if my counting structure again was 1234, how fast these notes would be as one and two, and three, and four, and so you can hear me set my foot and that is the beat structure and I'm gonna play several eighth notes in a row one and 10 and four. Now, there's other notes with dotted notes and stuff like that. We're only going to focus on the specific notes. So when we use an exercise to practice, we're going to use whole notes by themselves, half notes by themselves, quarter notes by themselves, eighth notes by themselves, and then eventually move into mixing up your beat structures.

So in the next lesson, we'll be doing exercises