With your subscription you will also receive a free copy of the eBook 'How to Read Music' by Leon Harrell. If you liked this lesson don't forget to sign-up for the free One Minute Music Lesson newsletter. To help you remember and more easily see this information visually, you can download the free Eastman Counting System Simple Meter poster. In the video above there is also an example of a more complicated rhythm that combines all three levels and shows you the correct counting using this system. So a measure of 16th note will be counted as: 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a. The next level of counting will the subdivision of the beat, or the next level smaller than the division of the beat. If we have a measure full of eighth notes it will be counted as: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +, because we use the syllable 'and' (+) to show the division of the beat, which in this case will be the eighth note.

When counting simple meters as we learned in Lesson 15 the beat will divide into 2 equal parts. So 4 quarter notes will be counted as 1, 2, 3, 4. In an example of 4/4 there will 4 beats and each beat equals a quarter note. Say 'e' or 'a' on the subdivision of the beat. Say the number of the beat on the beat.Ģ.

A half note followed by four eighth notes followed by two quarter notes should be counted as One Two-ee-and-uh Three And. Count eighth notes as you would count sixteenth notes in 3/4. The 3 basic rules for counting any rhythm are:ġ. &0183 &32 A whole note followed by a half note should be counted as One (two) Three. We will begin learning this system with the simple meters. The Eastman Counting System is a method of counting rhythms using a mixture of numbers and syllables.

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