If you want to learn about basic music theory, http://musictheory.net/ is supposed to be very good, at least according to my high school choir director. I feel like, if you are still at this stage, it would be better to use a more basic notation program like Noteworthy composer (which is free), or write things out by hand.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi Christian, > > Considering this pattern "g16 g g8". I do understand that the second g >> is inheriting the 16 from the previous g. I don't understand why I >> need to g8 to get the fourth 16th note? Is it maybe that the duration >> from the second note to the third note is of an eight note? >> > > No... the duration of an eighth note is equal to the total duration of two > sixteenth notes (i.e., 1/16 * 2 = 1/8). > > Put another way, the rhythm > > g16 g g8 > > sounds the same as the rhythm > > g16 g g ~ g > > [note that here the third and fourth 16th notes are tied, using the ~ > character]. > > I probably have a different way of thinking in my head than lilypond >> and for that matter most musicians. I'm trying to change that. >> > > You'll definitely need to brush up on your theory in order to quickly > advance in Lilypond. > > For the record, you might not want to use (i.e., learn from) the YouTube > video you linked to: it is rather confused/confusing on this matter. Above > the g16 g16 g8 pattern, the text says "two quarter beats and a half". [!!] > While I understand what the author meant — that a quarter note is considered > (in this context) a "beat", and thus a sixteenth note is a "quarter beat", > etc. — this is *not* a good way to learn the fundamentals of the Western > notation system. First of all we talk about quarter NOTES (which could be > confused with quarter BEATS), and secondly the duration which is considered > a "beat" changes depending on the time signature, tempo, and so on (so in > one piece, a dotted half note could be the "beat", so a "quarter beat" > becomes problematic). > > Good luck! > Kieren. > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > -- Carl Glick (847)542-0273 1011 Maple Ave. Evanston, IL 60202
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