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How to Count Beats & Bars

August 26, 2015

Learn how to count beats and bars which will help you with your QnA sessions, rhythm and timing.

This full length tutorial is taken from inside the School of Scratch online classroom. More about that later, for now, let’s dive in!

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Video Notes:

  • 00:00 – Intro.
  • 00:20 – Counting Beats & Bars.
  • 03:58 – Counting Multiple bars.
  • 05:09 – Music Cues.
  • 06:58 – Phrasing.
  • 09:23 – Wrap Up.

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