Repeat Signs
There are three symbols in common usage which are used to indicate that a portion of music is to be repeated.
1. Two dots placed before a double bar line indicate that the music is to be repeated, from the beginning of the piece of music or from a previous set of repeat signs.
2. The following indicates that the previous bar only is to be repeated.
3. Diagonal lines are used to indicate that a quarter note length of information per diagonal line be repeated from the same position in the previous bar.
These are used so that fills or accents of less than four quarter notes in length can be easily added to repeated rhythms, e.g.:
is equal to:
Class Sessions
1- INTRODUCTION
2- Swinging a Groove
3- Sixteenth Notes
4- The Sixteenth Note Triplet
5- The Quarter Note
6- Triplets
7- The Eighth Note
8- Explanation of Notation
9- Second Line
10- The Dot
11- The Eighth Note Triplet
12- Syncopation
13- The Drum Fill
14- Open and Closed Hi-Hats
15- Buzz Stroke
16- Rudiments of music
17- The Quarter Note Triplet
18- Triplet Subdivision
19- Time Signatures
20- The Twelve Eight Feel
21- The Flam
22- The Shuffle Rhythm
23- Repeat Signs
24- The Paradiddle
25- The Tie
26- Note Values
27- Anticipation
28- Understanding Note Values
29- The Paradiddle-diddle
30- The Metronome