EDS Lesson Six Developing rock grooves
EDS Lesson Six Developing rock grooves
As each of these exercises has been written as if you are to repeat them around and around, we thought we would just formally introduce the repeat sign.
The purpose of repeat signs is to save the composer writing out repetitive patterns unnecessarily.
A repeat section is denoted by a beginning repeat mark and an end repeat mark. The music in between is simply repeated as many times as is noted. Below is an example of a single bar of music that needs to be played twice.
A repeat mark is made up of two lines and two dots. One set of lines and dots marks the beginning of where to repeat and another set of lines and dots where the repeat ends. In the example below you are asked to repeat the bar of groove between the signs.
Figure 1. Use of repeat signs (Enlarge)
From here you go to the end of the section, and then return to here and play through the repeat section again. The number of times you repeat is normally clearly marked. In our exercises there are no limits to the repeats, so you keep repeating until you are comfortable.
Go from the end repeat mark back to the beginning of the section and play again all the bars from the beginning repeat mark, back to here.
From now on repeat signs will be used in all exercises where repeats are required. This is intended to get you used to seeing these markings.
