From the course: Beginning Acoustic Guitar Music Lessons

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Eighth notes

Eighth notes

From the course: Beginning Acoustic Guitar Music Lessons

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Eighth notes

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- All right, let's move on to eighth notes. Now eighth notes look really cool. They either have a little flag sticking off of them or a beam and that signifies that you're now dividing the pulse of music in half. So when you're counting eighth notes, they get less than a beat. An eighth note gets half of a beat. So if you're counting a beat like one, two, three, four. If you have a steady stream of eighth notes, you're actually gonna double that by counting one and two and three and four and. So let's try this next example that does just that. Here we go. One, two, three, four. One. (guitar music) Okay, now as you're tapping your foot, your foot can come down and as it comes back up that's where the ands are. One and two and three and four and. Now also it really helps when you pick notes that you pick a down stroke on the down beats and then an upstroke on those ands. So this next example goes between that where you're always going one and two and three and four and. Even if you…

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