Dr. B Music Theory Lesson 6 (Time Signatures, Beaming)

TOPICS
0:00 - How to determine number of a shorter duration makes up a longer one
5:42 - Relationship of Meter to Beat, Division of the Beat, and Time Signature
13:07 - Renotating from one time signature to another
17:00 - How to fill in an incomplete measure with rests
23:07 - Identifying the best time signature for an example

MISTAKE
15:45 - I meant to say and write 2/2 time on the top. I was talking about S(trong) w(eak) in cut time but said and wrote 2/4 by mistake. This is another one caught by Choral Tenor who gets my award of MVT (Most Valuable Theorist). Thanks Choral Tenor!

[EdokLock]

As a Mechanical Engineer, I find this math so simple, good thing I invested a lot of time in math before, now music makes more sense to me and is somehow easier to grasp. Thanks for the lectures doc.

[Skizze]

My appreciation for this series cannot be accurately expressed- I'm an ear musician, and while I think I've reached great heights just on my natural talents alone, I recognize that there are deficits in my abilities. Having all of these concepts explained plainly, and from an approachable individual is immensely valuable.

Not to mention, for free! Good lord, you even had the decency to timestamp each section! Thank you for your time and effort, sir!

[E_c_S_t_A_s_Y]

Million dollar tutorials 👌👌

Love from India.

[publicola]

Love this series. I'm on 'vacation' right now during COVID-19, and find your music theory classes very informative and easy to understand.

[robinjennings]

Thank you for posting this series, this is so much better than screens of carefully produced PowerPoint. The rate of delivery on the board and the classroom review is by far the best way to learn as you take your own notes. The ability to repeat and review is also of great value. As a retired University lecturer I find these invaluable as I study for my own pleasure on a remote farm in Portugal !

[salazin]

As someone coming back into music theory after not having seen it for almost 15 years, this has been a wonderful refresher. Thank you Dr. B!!

[Supersmileyluv]

Thank you so much for uploading all these! I've always been interested in music theory, and I'm learning a lot by watching you. Thank you!

[themidireporter]

I will never be a concert pianist but knowing basic theory is really a good thing. I mean how can you say you are a music lover when you can't appreciate the fundamentals right. This is an awesome series.

[warpatato]

The most interesting topic for me so far. Thank you for this series :)

[awbs]

i have to say, dr b. i luckily knew quite a lot of the first lectures before this one. i luckily learnt, when i first started playing guitar, how to use the c major scale to learn other scales by learning to have a semitone between the 3rd and 4 and 7th and octave and how chords are built/spelt. sadly. there are gaps in my knowledge you are covering and making what i didn't know accessible. i decided while eating my dinner to watch everything again and make notes. i WILL be watching your whole course. i'm going to try to get twin son no. 2 to watch as he's a very talented guitarist. sadly he doesn't care for music theory and learns everything by ear. anyway. thank you for sharing your knowledge and your excellent presentation skills of it.

[pixelatedparcel]

I'd wager this is where the rubber meets the road, after the first few /days weeks of class... bet you this is the first one in the series of this lecture series that gives most people the most trouble and where the most points are systematically (year in and year out) lost during your first or early evaluations...Very reminiscent of how many students have trouble with even relatively simple math as they move through school (notice, I didn't use "progress" here), simply because they "winged-it" with those first foundational courses in algebra and can't keep up when stuff builds on that essential knowledge.

[tz]

These recordings are the best ever! You are an awesome teacher! Thank you so much :)

[lilienespanol]

Oh wow, I never before understood why rests where written the way they were! For example, why use two eighth rests, when they could just use a quarter rest. And it makes sense now!

[tenprinthello]

I'm gonna echo my last comment again - having a textbook/workbook with exercises and answers would be fantastic - if such a textbook existed I would seek it out. I do know how the textbook racket works though. But I have to say that you going over these quiz questions does make me wish I had more of them to do on my own. I pause the video and take a guess before you answer but still.

[davidruks]

the very last part was really cool! or Extra cool as even though parts of this made my head hurt...it's still cool...I think I am starting to understand what it means by gets the beat! yet even if I am...more and more questions pop in my head...

[bsko_turbo]

Wow, so far this one is the hardest for me to grasp... But at least now I understand how hard it is (as of now) to write a properly laid out score, even a small one....wow....

[lisasexammusicoriginalcomp]

Love this im in uk and have a theory exam next week only just found these videos but explained clearly will be watching as many as I can !! I have problems with beaming the notes correctly so going to look for that too

[manresaelectric]

More videos on time signatures please! Wish i was a better student 10 years ago when i attended your classes 😆

[Choral-Tenor]

15:45 Oops! You were talking about S(trong) w(eak) in cut time but said and wrote 2 [over] 4.

[alinajafi]

plz explain this to me Doctor Brellochs, why can't we have a half rest at the end of the 12-4 bar instead of two quarter rests?
If we can use half notes which are 2/3rd of the beat, why can't we have the same value rest?