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Half beat bounce rhythm.
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This rhythm is mostly used for
slow songs, but covers so many songs.
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It's a very useful rhythm.
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Right hand plays a steady
four beats per bar.
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One, two, three, four 1, 2, 3, 4.
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The left hand is going to play the root
note of the chord one octave left,
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on the first bit of H bar, or
chord change, as you'll see later,
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and on a half beat which is played
after every second and fourth beats.
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This drives the music forward.
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Try it first with just a C chord and keep
repeating it until you get the rhythm.
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One, two, and three, four.
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One, two, and three, four.
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And one, two, and three, four.
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And one, two, and three, four and.
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It can help if you emphasize the one,
and the middle and, and the last and.
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One and two and three and four, and
one and two and three and four and.
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Cuz that's where the left
hand notes come in.
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One and two and three and four.
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And one and two and three and four and.
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As you can see that
drives the music forward.
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If you were just playing
straight four beats.
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One, two, three, four,
one, two, three four.
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It's very different when
you add in this half beat.
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And especially when you get faster.
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Okay, now let's try it with
the chord changes for blue moon.
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The chord changes are C,
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A minor, F, G.
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And you're playing two chords per bar,
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so you're playing two beats for
each chord.
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One, two, three, four.
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One, two, three, four.
And remember what I said before was
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the left hand plays the first
beat of each chord change and
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then a half beat after the second beat.
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So watch it very carefully the first
bit goes with the first chord, C.
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[SOUND] And then comes in the half beat,
[SOUND] and
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then you're playing them both together
because the chord has changed.
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A minor, [SOUND] and
a half beat afterwards.
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[SOUND] Then together again.
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[SOUND] Then a half beat,
[SOUND] together again.
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[SOUND] One, two and three, four.
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And one, two and three, four.
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And one, two, and three, four.
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And one, two, and three, four.
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And
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