Over the past two days, you've gotten used to listening for eight-counts, counting them out loud, and splitting them out of "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey.  Now, I challenge you to split the following examples out of "Don't Stop Believin'":

Two separate splits that meet the following counts:

1. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 --> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8


2. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 --> 8, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8


3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 --> 7, 8, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8


4. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 --> 6, 7, 8, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8


5. 1, 2, 3, 4 --> 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

You can do all your work in your current Garageband project.  You do not have to had in your project, just save it to your computer.  If you have any questions, feel free to email me or send me a message.

Using 8 beats, how can you tell when it's at one? I dont know much about music but  I'm guessing it's when there's a big note, and then there are seven more beats and then another big note which is the next one.

Being on the dance team, its really easy for me to count in 8's. It's really natural for me to just start counting 8's. But now I have to think, how do I know when to start? I think it's a beat that goes one and then seven beats follow, then another bigger beat with 7 following. It's just something I feel with the beats.

Jaymee.

I think the 'one' of an eight count is when the repeated material starts over again.

i think an 8 count strarts on the bigger beats u hear and than the 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 is the big beats u can hear...

you know where the 8 beats are, cause for example the paino has a 16 counts of repeated material during the verse, just cut that in 2 and feel the groove

I think you start counting eight counts as soon as you can hear a steady beat.

When I listen to a song, I always try to find the 8 counts.  When looking for the first beat, I listen for some of the bass beat and see when the music starts.  The 1st beat is  lil stronger sometimes.  You know it is one when it feels ackward to count the numbers.  You just have to have a fell for the music and then find the first beat.  I don't know how to describe it.

When you listen to the music you might be able to know where the first beat starts. I think that you can just feel when it is the first beat and the first beat is kind of harder or louder than the others. Some people might have difficulties or think that the first beat is like the 2nd beat of the song. It all depends on your ears and your ability to listen and read music.

We have recently been introduced to midi and garageband. They are really cool to learn things in and they way you can do changes are amazing. We have been placing new notes in a recording and also lengthening a note. We have also learned to play with a metronome which is kind of hard until you listen to it for a while. We are also going to be starting to do a hymn in class that we will be using different instruments on. I can't wait for you to hear it.

When I listen to the music, A strong beaet coming up or a new sentence of the verse so I start with the first count. It is extremely hard to explain how I know when to start counting though.. I really have no other way to tell you.. It's too confusing!