1. This has an uptempo, hard-driving type of quarter note triplet feel.

2. Tap your thighs to each quarter note.

3. Think of the quarter you see the quarter note that's the beat.

4. That tells a performer that the quarter note is carrying the beat.

5. A quarter note or crotchet followed by a dot is equivalent in duration to three 8th notes or quavers.

6. Set your metronome at around 50 beats per minute, where each beat is a quarter note. This is a legato exercise, intended to develop sensitivity between the tip of the tongue and the tip of the reed.

7. So every gesture of the hand is going to be the equivalent of a quarter note.

8. 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.

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