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I find it interesting they refer to notes as quarter values or eighths. I can quickly see myself getting confused by that (is that a quaver? Did I do it right?)
by socksy 16y ago
I find it interesting they refer to notes as quarter values or eighths. I can quickly see myself getting confused by that (is that a quaver? Did I do it right?) - does it change if you change the time signature from 4/4 to 3/4? (forgive the slashes)
- aaronkaplan 16y ago"Quarter note," "eighth note" etc. are the standard terms in US English. What you call a quaver, we call an eighth note, regardless of time signature. (4/4 time means there are 4 quarter notes in a measure; 3/4 means there are 3 quarter notes.)
- socksy 16y agoThanks, that explains it, though it does seem somewhat odd to my UK based musical training, where we regard a crotchet as a whole note...
- ajdecon 16y agoNope, the note names are consistent across time signatures. A quarter note is defined as the note which takes one quarter of a bar in 4/4 time.