You should know how to write complete silence in strumming patterns! We call them rests. Learn all about it here.
View the full lesson at Understanding Rests | JustinGuitar
Still thoroughly enjoying your courses Justinā¦ At age 66 after 55 years of violin I took up the guitar a year ago and I am now preparing my retirement ceremony from the university I am )president of with a concert with a group of my students (Harvest by Neil Young, Heart of gold, Donāt cry for me Argentina Hank Marvinās version, where I play lead, Tunnel of love where Iām the rythm guitar, when a man loves a woman Boltonās version where finding what 2 guitars, one bass a piano and drums can play is rather challenging,Still loving you by the Scorpionsā¦ Quite a program which means a lot of work and listening to your courses and many excellent pieces of advice. I masteres the beginnerās modules except grade 3 that you are currently finalizing and I am in Intermediate grade 4 which is my current level I think for many things. (I didnāt start from scratch having played classical guitar betwen age 7 and 11). I donāt know why I saying this.
In fact my message was on the quarter note silence : you can think opf it as 2 stacked 7 which is consistent with two eight note silences. Just a suggestion to memorize it more easilyā¦
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Hi Justin,this course has opened up the mystery of sheet music.I am trying to get back into guitar after suffering a stroke about 5 years ago.I now realise after doing the ABRSM grade 4,that music notation has 2 parts,the rhythm and the actual pitch of the notes.My previous guitar teacher who had a degree in music could not explain the subject as well as you m8.Cheers,i also have your rhythm book too,as i dont believe in taking and not givingā¦
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should there be a rest for the āandā after a quarter note? or do we just let it ring out? i notice there isnt a rest for any "and"s.
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My understanding would be that the note lasts how you let it ring. A quarter note rings for 1/4 of a whole note duration.
What you mention would be an 8th note followed by an 8th rest. Which together would take up the space of 1/4 with the note ringing half the time (1/8) and silent the other half (1/8) for the āandā. I am sure there are other notations for shorter staccato notes and so on.
There are different rest symbols for the length of the rest. Just like for notes.
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Just redoing RM and I noticed something in the second lesson, but this confirmed I am not crazy.
In the second lesson when you download the worksheets, it is super unclear what the answers are for the questions he gives us before we dive into the the real world stuff he wants us to do.
However in lesson 3, they are just plain not there. As you can see in my pictures, I have a screenshot of the āE quater note restsā from the RM3 worksheet, and my second pictures is from the video which has the same āE quater note restsā line, but there is no rhythm that is the same.
I guess my question is how do I follow along outside of just watching the video if they are not there?
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Thanks for your comments / questions Brett.
I have edited the webpage for lesson 2 on Ties and it now has this short paragraph which I hope clears up the confusion.
There are no answers on the worksheet as there is no ātestā in the lesson.
You are correct. I have rewatched all three video lessons again to check all of the issues you raise in your valuable post.
That said - it doesnāt matter. Iām not sure if Justin made an edit to the resources after filming so the bars named [E] on the downloadable worksheet no longer match that he inserted to the video lesson. But it doesnāt matter. These are exercises for you to practice in their own right. You can practice using the downloadable resource having learned what to do from the lesson itself. It just happens that Justin has taught something a little different to any of those you will then practice independently.
I hope that is okay.
Cheers
Richard
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Thanks for that, of course I should have just kept going, but was a little thrown off.
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