Sheet Music Digital One Minute Lesson #10 - Bar
Lines and Measures
To make it easier for us to do
our counting, we now introduce "bar lines".
As you will see below, bar lines divide the staff into equal
"measures" of time called measures!
Below is a picture of 4 bar lines on a staff.
Bar lines divide the musical staff into equal
"measures" of time.
Below is a song Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
with quarter notes, half notes and
the bar lines added. Did you recognize this song from the last
lesson?
Notice that each bar line comes after 4 counts. (beats)
In this song, we therefore have 4 beats per
measure.
If we count all the measures, we find we have a
total of 12.
All music is usually divided into equal "measures"
of time.
We also have a bar line at the beginning and end of
each staff.
Also notice that we have a different kind of bar line at
the end of the last measure of the song. This is called a double bar line.
When you see a double bar line, it means the song ends at
that point.
Click on
the play button again and play along with Twinkle, Twinkle
Little Star. This time the bar lines have been added.
If you can't see the music
below, not to worry. This means you need to download the
free scorch music plug-in.
