Counting a Bar and Phrase in Music Video 5, Rare Groove.

Alright folks, Jonathan here. Now this is video number five in a selection I'm doing on counting bars and phrases in different kinds of music. In video number five we're going to be counting bars and phrases in a type of music called rare groove. Now rare groove again has timing, it has a beat. The difference with rare groove as opposed to modern day music is Regrave wasn't necessarily made with a drum machine. In other words, the timing, the actual BPM, beats per minute, could differ during the course of the music, but we can still count phrases and we can still count bars. Now what I'll do, I'll play the particular track, I will let it play and then we will be counting the bars in the music and we'll also be counting the phrases as well. So let's start the track off.

If you want to know the name of the track, look to the side of the video. Quite a long introduction to this one. I'll hold that up there because first off we'll be counting a bar and that is a bar in music. One, two, three, four. That's a phrase which is basically four bars. I was counting bars, now we're going to look at counting phrases.

Very quickly, the difference between counting a bar and counting a phrase is when you count a bar, you'll count as follows. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. When you count an actual phrase, you're doing near enough exactly the same thing, but the difference is this. One, one, two, three. Two, one, two, three. Three, one, two, three. Four, one, two, three. In future videos I'll show you how by counting a phrase will make it actually easier for you to choose where to bring the next track in, in relation to mixing one track into the other. Thanks for watching and as usual, practice and enjoy!

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