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Counting a Bar and Phrasein Music Video 3, House Music

Lesson Intermediate Stage 2: Counting Music November 2007

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Alright folks, Jonathan here. This is video number three in a selection I'm doing on something called counting bars and also counting phrases. Very quickly, once again, that is an actual bar in music, 1-2-3-4. Now that is known as a phrase, we have four bars and we count it as follows, 1-1-2-3, 2-1-2-3, 3-1-2-3, 4-1-2-3. In video number three, we're going to be looking at counting bars and phrases. In what's known as house music. Let's have a listen to the track first. We'll get it right back to the beginning and what I'll do, I'll move my finger in relation to the actual numbers, in relation to the actual beat and the timing of the music. Here we go. Get that right back to the beginning. Now I'll do exactly the same thing using this phrase here. Off we go. Hope it gives you the general idea. In this video, video number three, we're looking at counting bars and phrases with regards...

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