Understanding Sheet Musick: Note Durations
Welcome to the first video in a series of videos that will be coming out on Grafted Branch Ministry. In these videos, I will be explaining and teaching how to read and understand sheet musick. Mainly, musick that is in a hymnal. When a person looks at sheet musick for the first time, it may seem overwhelming and confusing. I will be simplifying the key parts of sheet musick, so the viewer can learn how to read what he is looking at. Please takes notes, and rehearse what you have learned.
This first video I will be covering some key terminology and parts of sheet musick.
- Time signature
- Measure
- Beats
- Note Durations (whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth)
- Lyric Author
- Tune Author
These videos will help those who sing from a hymnal to be of one mind with the others who are singing with you. Singing unto the Lord is the main part of singing musick. Sing in spirit and in truth, not only to please the flesh.
Romans 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
Romans 15:6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
I use the spelling of "musick" because the King James Bible spells it that way. If you spell it "music" it does not take away from the truth.
(KJB) Amos 6:5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
Here is the website referenced in the video:
(Be warned that this website does show verses along the top of the screen that are not always from the King James Bible. I have written an e-mail to the website creator asking them to consider their double heart in using King James Bible and other bible versions.)
