(By doing so, you automatically organize the melody into bars.) Your task is to add those missing bar lines.
In this exercise, you are given a melody with the time signature but without bar lines. As we’ll see they can be good hints at what the time signature actually is. They simply join 2 (or more) notes together. Remember that these are equivalent to note values and count just the same. Watch out especially for dotted notes (and in grade 4, watch out also for double dotted notes). This number tells us what kind of beats we have. This number tells us how many beats every bar must get. (Often, you won’t even need all of these steps.)
We’ll look at some examples (grade by grade) in a moment but first, here are the steps we’ll go through to make sure we add the bar lines at the right spots.
