Counting a Bar and Phrase in Music Video 6, Soul

Alright folks, Jonathan here. This is video number 6 in a selection I'm doing on counting bars and phrases in music. In video number 6 we're going to be counting bars and phrases in a music called soul music. Now first of all we're going to look at a bar. A bar you count as follows, in time, in beat with the music. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. Now this particular diagram is not to scale, it's just showing you in relation to counting. Now this guy here is known as a phrase. Again, this is only a diagram and it's not to scale. Now you'll count a phrase as follows. 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3. And again, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3. What I'll do now, I'll play the music and you'll see my fingers moving in relation to counting and to the beats regards while we're listening to the music. Off we go. Okay, I was showing you how you would count in time, in beat with the music, a bar. Now we'll do exactly the same but this time with a phrase. There you go, showing you how to count a phrase and a bar in soul music.

Now in future videos what I'm going to be doing is showing you how you can utilise this principle in counting, timing and also it will show you how it's a lot easier for you to be able to get a track into the mix and take a track out of the mix in time with vocals, melody and bassline. Thanks for watching. Practice and enjoy.

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