Angeline The Baker // Section 2

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   drdldr April 29, 2019

   Please explain how to count out the last 2 beats of this measure .The way it is written, It looks like the 3 rd beat starts on the tied 1/16 note but the rest of the measure makes no sense at all …..this is incredibly confusing.

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      ScottyMac September 1, 2019

      Lynn,
      It’s the way Tony’s software heard what he was playing, and replicated it. First, he’s starting this phrase on the pickup from the first measure. Remember there are 16 16th notes in a four beat measure in 4/4 time. So, start counting 16th notes. The first two beats are straightforward. There are 8 16th notes, hence two full beats. Here’s where the rythmic interest (confusion) can begin. The last 16th note of the second beat is tied to the first 16th note of the third beat, making it the duration of an 8th note. (It could have been better as three 16ths tied to an 8th.) The remaining 3 sixteenth notes making up the third beat are contained within the written quarter note. More room for confusion here, as that same quarter note contains the FIRST 16th of the last beat. On the rest of the planet, this would have been written as a dotted 8th tied to either two 16th’s or one 8th) leading you to the last two 16th’s of the second measure, which function as pickups to the third measure. I had to count 16th notes to make sure there were 16 of ’em in the measure.

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         drdldr October 23, 2019

         When I tackle this song again,I will give your explanation a try. At the time,I was so frustrated that I simply bailed out . A future challenge….