EDS Lesson Three Introducing sixteenth notes
EDS Lesson Three Introducing sixteenth notes
Understand and be able to count sixteenth notes.
Develop control of time using single stroke rolls to play quarter notes, eighth notes and sixteenth notes.
Develop simple drum fills using quarter notes, eighth notes and sixteenth notes.
In Lesson 1 we divided the bar into four (4) notes giving us quarter notes. In Lesson 2 we divided the bar into eight (8) notes giving us eighth notes.
Now we are going to divide each of those eighth notes in half again producing sixteenth notes. They are called sixteenth notes, because they divide a bar of common time into sixteen (16) notes.
You will recall that a quarter note is worth one (1) beat, and an eighth note is worth half (½) of a beat. Now that we have cut the eighth note in half, we have four notes per beat and therefore, each sixteenth note is worth quarter (¼) of a beat.
You will see from the example below a bar of quarter notes, a bar of eighth notes and a bar of sixteenth notes.
Example 1 (Enlarge)
Next: Understanding sixteenth notes (using a single stroke roll)
