Trio - A Group Of Three Notes Of The Same Duration

Triplet quavers = 1/3 of a crotchet each. Triplets mean 3 notes played where two usually fit. 3 triplet quavers = 1 crotchet. Time Signatures you what type of beats they are. 2 on the bottom = minim beats 4 on the bottom = crotchet beats. 8 on the bottom = quaver beats or 3 quavers making up dotted crotchet beat. 6/8 dotted crotchet beats 9/8 = 3 dotted crotchet beats 12/8 = 4 dotted crotchet beats Simple time signatures have plain beats that divide evenly in two. Compound time signatures have dotted beats that divide into thirds. Make sure you space notes in a bar evenly.

Imagine the bar is divided into boxes, ne for each beat.

If you write a 2 beat note put it at the beginning of the first box and leave the second one empty, a pair of quavers should fit evenly into 1 box if you have crotchet beats, etc. Grouping Notes & Rests Grouping notes & rests is easy! Look at the time signature and see what type of beat it is. Beam together quavers & semiquavers, Join tied notes or rests if they are in the same beat.

Leave a gap between each beat. If you need to draw a box around each beat and write in the counting. There are a few places you can Join more than one beat. These are:

• In 2/4 & % you can Join a full bar of quavers.
• In % & 4/4 you can beam 4 quavers at the beginning or end of the bar.
• In ANY time signature use a semibreve rest for a whole bar of silence.
• If there are 3 beats in a bar (3/4, 3/2, 9/8, 3/8) use separate beat rests.
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• If there are 4 beats in a bar (4/4, 4/2, 12/8) you can use a 2 beat rest at the beginning of the bar or the end of the bar but not across the middle.
• In 3/8 Join all quavers & semiquavers.

For dotted crotchet beats only use a crotchet rest at the beginning of the beat (in place of the note, not the dot).  Beam or bracket groups of quaver triplets including rests to make crotchet beat.

Use nly quaver rests in these triplets. Anacrusis Music with an anacrusis (or up-beat) starts on a weak beat part way through a bar. The first strong beat (down beat) is on beat 1 after the bar line. The last bar won’t be a full bar, it will be missing the length of the anacrusis. Phrases and sections of songs can also start on an upbeat or anacrusis, starting and finishing part way through a bar.