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  • FINALLY, i found a video explaining this, thx so much, i was stuck on dot notes and tied notes. now i can go on.

  • Does anyone know if a dotted quarter note is the same as an eighth note triplet like having three eighth notes tied together? please reply.

  • thank man. even though i knew about it, i forgot it easily. thanks for the vid.

  • great but can u show it with a guitar.please

  • oops.. sorry :(

  • thanks man you helped me so much i had no idea what i was doing when i learning music!

  • you cant have a dotted whole note if its 4/4 time? right?

  • correct - because that would be 6 beats in a measure of 4

  • @waltribeiro @OneChance99 ...Wrong, because the dotted whole note would just play straight into the next measure in 4/4 time, and if you wanted to play that same note again you would wait till the 3rd beat next measure. So in measure 1 a dotted G# sharp whole note would last for 6 beats as requested, until the next measures 3rd beat in 4/4 time.

    It almost the same as a Tie-note situation, the note must sustain as written in the music piece, unless you're improvising. Cheers from LA! ;)

  • continued.

    Why couldn't a String section play a dotted hole note in 4/4 time? Music doesn't stop at each measure does it? So the dotted whole note can in fact be played and written for 4/4 time, especially for Strings!

    Hold down a synthesizer string patch for six beats in 4/4 time and the Answer is Yes. You will stop at the 3rd beat of the next measure. 1-2-3-4. 2-2-STOP. Hope that helps :)

  • @DICACIO1 well if you're throwing in ties, then yes. but that seems a bit technical. whatever works.

  • @waltribeiro. a dotted whole note can be the equivalent to a 6-beat TIE, which is fairly easy to teach the student(s). so the dotted whole note is just another way to tie-in extra time on a note or chord in 4/4 or 3/4, etc.

    yes, it's a matter of whatever works for the musician/composer. I was trying to prove that you can have a dotted whole note in 4/4 common time, is all I'm saying. in a 4/4 ENDING measure you cannot have a dotted whole note, but before that you can :)

  • Thanks! You make great vids, but just one question. What if i want a note that lasts 5 beats? What does that look like?

  • go to my website and do a search for 'ties' and 'slurs'. Basically, for that you would tie a whole note to a quarter note.

  • Thank you very much! Great help. Keep up the good work!

  • hey this might be offf subject but how many years did you study too know all this about the guitar

  • 5 years or so.. but take it a little at a time

  • Thanks for replying to my comment!

  • I have a question: How would you write 1 1/4 beats? Is there a way to write that without having to use ties? Is there a symbol that stands for half a dot?

  • nope - you would have to use a tie :)

  • But one question:

    When you have a whole note and two quarter notes, that does not mean that you hold on the hole note in 6 beats, but in 4beats, and then you press two more notes each in one quarter note, which equals 6. But when you have the whole note and a dot, it simply means that you hold on to the hole note in 4+0.5times(4) which equals 6 beats..

    Did I understand this, or am I completly wrong ? Thank you so much Walt.

  • Kind of, yea. The dot adds half the notes' duration to itself. So a dotted whole note is 4+2=6 beats. A dotted quarter note is 1+.5 = 1.5 beats.

  • Great video as usual Walt.

    Tony

  • great....thanks for the vid really appreciate it.

  • I see!

    This is something I had been wondering a long time now, but always forgot to ask about :]

    thanks!

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