Counting a Bar and Phrase in Music Video 2 Drum & bass.

0:00 Very quickly again, that is a musical bar

Alright folks, Jonathan here. This is video number two in a selection I'm doing on something called counting bars and also counting phrases. Now very quickly again, that is a musical bar. You can just about see it there. Now that is a musical phrase. Now in the next selection of videos what we're going to be doing is actually utilising the bar and the phrase and incorporating it into counting in different types of music. In this video we're going to be counting a bar and a phrase. In a type of music that's known as drum and bass. Let's have a listen first to the particular track. And by the way, if you want the track name, it'll be to the side of the video. Here we go. That right back to the beginning. First of all, we'll count using the actual musical bar. And then after that, we'll count using the phrase. So what I'm not going to do, you're not going to actually hear me. You'll just see my hand moving or my finger moving over the actual numbers. Here we go.

1:35 What we'll do, we'll do exactly the same thing but we'll use the phras

Now what we'll do, we'll do exactly the same thing but we'll use the phrase. Now bearing in mind this is quite fast but it will give you a general idea of how we're going to count using this phrase method. Now here you can see blocks. Now that is one bar, that's another bar, that's another one and that's another one so we have 1 2 3 4 bars in this particular phrase and we count this as follows 1 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 3 1 2 3 4, 1, 2, 3. But we count it in time and in beat with the music. So here we go. That gives you a general idea. Now I'm going to be doing a selection of videos almost identical in relation to the type of music that you like. And in the future, very soon hopefully, I'll be doing another video showing you the bar principle with regards counting and timing in music and also how you can utilise this guy here, a phrase.

To make sure that you can actually count and the timing is better with regards your mixing capabilities and bringing tracks in and tracks out of the mix. Thanks for watching, practice and enjoy!

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