For our first free music lesson, we'll look at one of the very basic fundamentals, counting, which can really help players who aren't familiar with this system already. For many types of musician, It helps a whole lot if you learn to count basic rhythm notation - there's not many to cover. Basically be familiar with counting whole notes, half, quarter, eighths, sixteenths 32's, and 64's, (the ones you use), and that will serve you well for the moment.

Here are the basic counts used in music - try clapping your hands on the underlined notes while keeping your foot tapping a constant 1 2 3 4. The foot goes on the (-)'s as well as the underlined numbers and comes up on the + signs... slowly at first if your new to it.

This vital and basic counting skill/tool can improve anyone's (genius' aside ;) musical ability. A thorough grounding in the counting basics to the uninitiated can shave years off the learning process. I do recommend investing in a good music primer to speed up an instrument's learning process.

All the best, hope you enjoyed this small music lesson with the big essential info ;-).

Regards

David