Lesson 2

Lesson 2: Simple and Compound Meters


Lecture Notes:

  • Musical meters work by ways in which the beats are grouped and divided.
  • Simple meters have beats that are divided into twos (2).
  • Compound meters have beats that are divided into threes (3).
 
Both images are from:
 https://www.musictheoryacademy.com/how-to-read-sheet-music/simple-and-compound-meter/



Here's a YouTube video from "MusicTheoryGuy". In this video, He talks about how simple and compound meter works and how you can identify them.



Here's another YouTube video from "Alethia 27". In this video, she helps you better understand how to identify the differences between simple and compound duple, triple, and quadruple meters. 



Here's a video of me playing, "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on the piano. The first time I broke down every note into 8th notes only so that you can see the individual counts of each beat. However, the second time I played it exactly as written in the excerpt. 
Excerpt from:
https://musescore.com/user/5254276/scores/4993562











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