ABSTRACT
This chapter serves as a practical reference guide essential to understanding the basic fundamentals of music theory, which are pertinent to the performing, recording, and production processes. It explains how to read rhythms and will provide producers with an understanding of the distinction between beats per minute, or tempo, and time signatures. Music is displayed on a five-line staff that is divided into measures, with notes and rest signs of varying lengths. Understanding note values allows people to count musically and keep up with where they are in the song. A dotted note is note with a dot. The dot increases the note’s duration by half again its value. The time signature refers to numbers that look like fractions, which appear at the beginning of the measure. Syncopation is when the accent in a musical phrase or passage falls on the weak beat instead of the strong beat.
