![]() ![]() Therefore, if the 32th note represented 1 second, a Whole note would represent 32 seconds. Note that 32 Thirty-second notes can fit within a Whole note. In this diagram, it is easy to see how the figures fit inside each other. For example, two eighth notes, one next to the other, Note: notice that the figures faster than the quarter note appear linked, forming blocks that correspond to one quarter note. This example was important to introduce the idea that a Quarter Note can fit 2 Eighth Notes or 4 Sixteenth Notes or 8 Thirty-second Notes, etc. Let’s say the value of a quarter note is US$ 1.00. Let’s make it more practical now by taking it to real life. We chose the value 1 for the quarter note here just to have a reference. Let’s give you an example: if we assigned any value to these figures, let’s say, for example, that the value of the Quarter note is 1, we would have the following: The Quarter note, lasts half the time of the Half note and so on. In other words, the Half note lasts half the time of the Whole note. First of all, know that we have just shown the figures, in order, using the following logic: each figure shown lasts half the time of the previous figure. Nice, but what is the time length of each one of these figures in practice? We’ll see that now. How can we know the time/duration of each note or chord in sheet music? By learning note values! See them below: The note values It may help to count to four while playing this.Now that we’ve learned the representation of notes in sheet music, the time has come to study the note values. The 5 th beat can be thought of as the first beat being played again. On the first beat, your foot and hand tap at the same time, but your hand waits until the 5 th beat to play again. Tapping quarter notes with your foot forces you to be aware of the tempo at all times. If you don’t, people will stop dancing, and they will be noticeably unimpressed. I ask you to do it this way because as you learn more and more complicated rhythms, you must keep the underlying tempo going at a steady speed. Use your foot to tap out the bottom note at a medium tempo, so your foot will act as a metronome. I wrote them out in piano notation, but you can do these exercises by tapping the floor with your foot and tapping a surface with your hand. This is a beginner exercise for understanding the different note lengths. Thinking must be balanced with playing, so get playing! Note Length Exercise 1: From Whole Notes to 16 th Notes It’s important not to get bogged down in thinking about music. Go ahead and listen to the examples and try playing them, then come back and read this again. If this is confusing, don’t think about it too much. ![]() This means that half notes last for two beats, whole notes for four beats, 8 th notes for half of a beat, and 16 th notes for one quarter of a beat. So, when you set your metronome to any tempo, you could think of it as tapping out quarter notes, no matter how fast or slow you set the tempo. Usually, we decide that the quarter note lasts one beat. The most important thing is to relate these note values to the tempo. You could think of quarter notes as lasting one quarter of a whole note, or half of a half note.Īn 8 th note lasts half as long as a quarter note, and a 16 th note lasts half as long as an 8 th note.Ĭontinuing this pattern of dividing by two, it’s possible to encounter 32 nd notes and 64 th notes as well, but these are less common. The half note is held for half the length of the whole note, so two half notes are equal in length to one whole note. ![]()
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