How to read music ——— ONTHE CD In this month's double dose of reading and rhythm, we look at TRACK 16 recognising sharps and flats and much more WELODY omer five strings of th rar ~ for a quick fie CRATING ers: cee eae ee aeee eee tn (see EXAMPLE 2). You should trill by now: flat signs is in key signatures right at the nines of a usual, the answers are on this month's CD and so, on a ie i a litle like learning the WUnderstanding of igh-note triplets you think youve cracked it,takealisien tothe CD to rules of ‘dame in many respects. It all seems vers ‘An eighth- Hiathctelth beiucet le notes sig at note trpet | cvitmsciapicrmy pce its replaces a Sari eeane od Gee Vas anc single beat” cine eee ee cerca ee | Inthe key signature onthe let all the YOUR (TUTOR behind thistle misadventure are shrosced inthe mis nhs eens Fela soworen. musical le complicated to expla a Ihe tay senches or es fer Kcal Seat ears ele present so let's just run with it and see how "Bs" and "Ex" wou be payed a on allthe Gr tutors R sharps and ats are w the flat sign is before which is normally a ‘open string, Here, the f had Lot ushing the B down a string so that it re Ne ti oa nr fret on the G string peaeereny Theres one wore si Jor too: EXAMPLE 5 is ‘natural’ sign and this little number has the effect of 60 Guitar Techniques MARCH 2003,UL Renter Sharp sign Natural sign Natural 1 —| ex7e “ “ ‘1 « 4 ex7a ‘emi 2003 Guia Telugu 61How to read music OVER THE PAST PEW beats can be cut in bal seen ihat happens when a beat —or part of a peat ~ doesn't have a note attached to it at al and a rest has to be put in place to let us know where not to play But so far, we've only been working in groups of two with two halves, then we did the same agai up with four quarters. All ell and good, ana se Wo Could go on dividing by two unt we eam up with some very stall fact Tut what happens if we want to split a beat into thr qual parts? This is where the triplet comes in an here's a special way of going about counting th ‘THREE NOTES ARE BETTER THAN ONE EXAMPLE 9 is wits nas an eighth-note triplet ancl it does the job of dividing a heat into three. Its wee eighth notes that have been ‘beamed just to be re that i Ee etre ean witha ngs in the ace just above it Counting triplets can be done a number of ways. usually encourage pupils to think of a three-svl: sword ~ evenly’, for example ~ to begin with and then ay it outloud over the heat as you play. In this w: you would count EXAMPLE 11 ‘One Evenly Thre« Four’ and you get an instant verbal representation he rhyth Once you've got the hang ¢ sever is better t nin EXAMPLE 12, bo caus already 1s 4 little bit lke the sway we count sixteent ‘Asan eighth note triplet replaces a single quarter note beat See Eco ‘An elghin nae mpiet replaces @ single beat EXAMPLE 9 fey) Sen ale ‘an easy way to count tilt fo replace the boat wath a thee sylabie word es, but ifit doesnt sound too obvious, check out the (EP —Te inchuded an exaraple on there so you can be ure everything's going right you were wondering what sort of rest a trpl Ihe have, fear not — you don't have to learn another mmbol, If'You think about it, an eighth-note triplet replaces a single beat, and therefore the normal symbol EXAMPLE 13, a CTT OURASSIGNMENT this month Poteet ene eee Paces at eet ere eral cedure in the pera creo Count: One and uh uh Four and uh (62 Ghitar Techniques apni. 2003ext eet exis ex tte