How to Read Music (Basics) 5

Improve your mind and knowledge by learning more about how to read music.  Using the Khan Academy videos, it's easier and more fun than you might think.  Today's lesson is 4 minutes long. 

This lesson looks at families of time signatures: simple (like 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4), compound (like 6/8, 9/8, and 12/8), and complex (like 5/8 and 7/7).  I was fascinated as a boy with Lalo Schifrin's opening credits theme to the 1960s TV show Mission Impossible.  That music has been used over and over in films and TV shows ever since.  Its jazzy, dancey flavor is due to its complex meter of 5. 

https://youtu.be/w89mmoD0O4c

I encourage you to take the little quiz I wrote for this lesson.  Find it here. 

Next week: Three amazing young tenors on America's Got Talent