From the course: Learning Music Notation

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Measure repeats

Measure repeats

From the course: Learning Music Notation

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Measure repeats

- [Narrator] Repetition in music is an essential part of creating memorable song or composition. When used carefully, repeat markings can be a useful tool in simplifying the layout and reducing the number of pages in scores and related parts. Let's begin our discussion of repeats by taking a look at some measure repeat markings. So, before we do that, I wanna talk briefly about how we can indicate to repeat a single beat or a musical idea that lasts for a single beat. So, we can use slash marks to do this. And, I'll also mention that this is not really appropriate for concert music or classical music; that you primarily see this in popular music and in theater music, where there might be something that repeats for a very long time and it's just easier to indicate that by using the slash. So, you simply notate the figure and then you add the slashes after that to indicate that they're supposed to repeat. So, here, I've indicated this one-beat figure twice, and then just started adding…

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