Up to this lesson, we have counted dotted notes, and notes as short as 32nd notes. This lesson will teach you how to count dotted whole notes, triple dotted notes, and notes shorter than 32nd notes. Double and Dotted Whole Notes The first note in this example is a double Read more…
In the last lesson we learned how to count double dotted and dotted notes. Now that we know how to count those notes, we can now count double dotted and more dotted rests. Dotted Rests Now we will look at 8th and 16th dotted rests. The dot adds half the Read more…
In this lesson we will learn how to count 16th notes, 32nd notes, and their rests.. Flags and Beams Flags first appear on eighth notes, cutting the quarter note in half. Each flag cuts the value in half. The more flags we add to a note, the shorter it gets: Read more…
We have learned how to count whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, and eighth notes thus far. But what if we want to use a note that’s one and half beats or what if we want to hold a note across a barline? This is where dotted notes and ties Read more…
Rests are used to indicate silence. In a previous lesson on note lengths, we saw how long each rest lasts. In this lesson, we will learn how to count rests in time signatures where a quarter note gets the beat. Here is the diagram from the previous lesson, showing how Read more…
In this lesson we will look at 4 types of notes and the rests for each one. The type of note tells us how long it is held. In the picture above, each note is twice as long as the next note. Notes get their name by how many it Read more…