Notes Rests and Their
Notes Rests and Their
Notes Rests and Their
3 Notes, Rests
and their
CORRESPONDING
VALUES
In music, we use musical symbols to help us read, understand and play
music correctly.
on their instrument.
Music rests abound throughout all styles of music,
contributing to memorable melodies and rhythms. If you consider the rhythm
or groove of a piece of music, that groove does not consist merely of the
notes that a musician plays; it is also built on the moments when the
musician is not playing anything at all. The back-and-forth pattern of notes
and rests enables rhythmic phrasing, and out of these musical phrases,
entire pieces of music emerge.
In sheet music notation, note values represent the length of music notes
while rest values represent the length of pauses.
There are eight basic musical rests that working musicians should
recognize:
1. Whole note rest - Also known as
a whole rest or a semibreve rest, this
symbol represents a musical pause
that is the length of a whole note. In a
4/4 time signature, a whole rest tells the player to pause for the whole bar.
On a five-line musical staff, a whole rest hovers just below the fourth
line.
2. Half note rest - Also called a half rest or minim rest, this rest
covers half of an entire bar of 4/4. It is one half the length of a whole
rest. On a five-line musical staff, a half rest hovers just above the
middle line. It is equal to two beats of silence or pause.
3. Quarter note rest - A quarter note rest, also called a crotchet rest,
covers the duration of a quarter note.It is equal to one beat of silence or
pause.
4. Eighth note rest - An eighth rest corresponds to an eighth note in
length. It is the first of several rests that look quite similar to one
another in their musical notation. It is equal to 1/2 of a beat of silence
or pause.
8. Rests with a fermata - If you see a rest with a fermata symbol over it,
this means the exact length of the rest is up to your discretion. You can play at exactly as
notated, or you can extend the rest for effect. Fermatas almost always come at the end of
measures, right before a double barline.
CORRESPONDING
Values
RESTS NOTES
Dotted, Double-Dotted, and Triple-Dotted
Notes and Rests
Therefore, dotting a note or a rest changes the
regular pattern, by
adding half of the value of
the note or rest to itself. For example, a half
note normally gets two beats, but when it is
dotted, it gets 3 beats. To illustrate, the value
of a half note is 2, half of 2 is 1 so 2 + 1 = 3.
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