Today you will learn rhythms using dotted notes.
When dot is added to a note, the duration of the note is increased by half.
Today's key rhythms is
The combination of a dotted eighth note and a dotted sixteenth note.
You can easily understand it with the following figure.
A dotted eighth note equals to three sixteenth notes combined by a tie.
So there will be a total of three strokes (unstrokes for the second and the third).
For more information on notes, meters and rhythms,
03 Notes, rests, rhythms, meters, tempos, calypso rhythm
The chord progression of the song is as follows:
The song also consists of only 4 chords.
However, if you look into it more carefully, chords G and D are included in a bar.
In such cases, you can create the rhythm with 2 beats for each chord.
You can evenly divide the bar into two if the chords are located in each half.
If the latter chord is close to the former one, it will be as follows:
If the latter chord is close to the end of the bar, it will be as follows:
You can figure out the structure in this way.
So let's create the rhythm.
You can play the chords G and D with the first rhythm and the chords Am7 and C with the second rhythm.
You can hold the chord Am7 by removing the third finger for holding the chord Am.
One more rhythm to learn
So now we have learned three of the most popular rhythms in 16-beat.
You may think that most of the songs use the combination of these rhythms.
The third rhythm is more frequently used in the following beat rather than in the first beat.
When you become familiar with these rhythms, you will also feel interested in creating unique rhythms.
The important thing is that you need to understand that all these three rhythms are based on division of 1 beat (quater note).
It will be of great help for you to create your own rhythms according to the metronome whenever you can.
Today's practice
Set up your target so that you can play like this.
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