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Beginner DJ Lesson on the Study of a Bar in Music

Lesson Beginner Stage 2: Counting Music November 2014

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Alright ladies and gentlemen, this video is all about helping you count. Helping you to work out timing. What counting is all about and what bars are all about. You can see that in front of you. Look at that. Just stop. There's a bit of a loop going on there. We've got 1, 2, 3, 4. We've got ands and we've got t's. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. But if we just, I don't know, halve it up, chop it up a little bit, we can count it like this. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and. If you want to chop it up again, we can count it like this. 1 t and t2, t and t3, t and t4, t and t1, t and t2, t and t3. t and t4, t and t2. So what's happening is we are slowly breaking that beat up completely. Noise in the background, I do apologize. So this is the practice. This is what I want you to do. First of all, get a loop. Doesn't matter what it is. So 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. Let's halve that now. Let's get the timing.

Here we go. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. Now let's do the and. 1, 1, 2, 3, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and. Back again. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. Let's do the and. And, and, and, and.

Them up and one two three four and two three four have fun practice and enjoy

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