Like Basie,Lewis believed in making every note of music count.

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Well, in music the most basic symbol for the beat is the quarter note.

音乐中表示拍的最基本符号是四分音符

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They tend to be just triads whereas in classical music we can have a triad but we can also add a seventh note with one,three,five,seven,nine,eleven, that kind of thing.

流行乐一般只用三和弦，但是古典乐可以用三和弦,也可以在上面加上七音，一，三，五，七，九，十一，诸如此类的。

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You're going to hear the violins play a running scale, If our beat is this, what note values are in the music of the violinists at this particular moment?

大家待会要听段小提琴演奏连续音阶,如果我们这样打拍子,在这个特定的时间点,这段音乐中小提琴手演奏的时值是什么

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Okay. So that's the music. Now having done this setup, if you think about it, and think about the fact that what note symbol gets the beat in our course- quarter note, okay.

好,这就是音乐,做过这一套以后,如果你在思考,那么想一想,在我们课程中用来代表节拍的是什么音符,四分音符,好的

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