Lesson two - Note values

Hi everyone! In this lesson am I going to cover Note values, I think this will be a shorter lesson than lesson 1. We are going to cover the 5 most basic note values and their rests we are also going to cover dotted notes!

All notes has a “silence brother” a rest, simply a pause were you stop playing for the amount of note value that the rest represents.

This is a quarter note and its rest, which has the note value: 1 beat   worth:  1

Next we have the half note and its rest, which has the note value: 2 beats worth: 2

Next one is the Whole note and its rest, which has the note value: 4 beats  worth: 4

Next one is the eighth note and its rest, which has the note value: ½ beat worth: 0.5

The last one I take is the sixteenth note and its rest, which has the note value: ¼ beat worth: 0.25

•     The half note is half of the whole note

•     The quarter note is half of the half note and ¼ of the whole note

•   The eighth note is half of the quarter note, ¼ of the half and 1/8 of the Whole note

•     The sixteenth note is half of the eighth note, ¼ of the quarter , 1/8 of the half, and 1/16 of the     whole note

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Here I made it more clearly with the beats under the note values. Our piece is in 4/4 time signature, which means 4 quarter note values per bar.

DOTTED NOTES:

The length of a dotted note is the main notes value + half of its value.

·         A half note has the note value 2 if we take half of it = 2/2 = 1, means a dotted half note is as long as a half note + a quarter note     Worth: 1+2= 3

·         A quarter note has the note value 1 if we take half of it = 1/2 = 0.5 , which means a dotted quarter note is as long as a quarter note + a eighth note  Worth: 1+0.5= 1.5

·         A eight note has the note value 0.5 if we take half of it = 0.5 /2= 0.25, which means a dotted eighth note is as long as an eighth note + a sixteenth note Worth: 0.5+0.25=0.75

·         A sixteenth note has the note value 0.25 if we take half of it = 0.25/2 = 0.125, which means a dotted sixteenth note is as long as a sixteenth note + a thirty-second note Worth: 0.25 + 0.125 = 0.375

!Note: the thirty-second note is as long as half the sixteenth note!

I hope you understood everything in this lesson and that it helped you, if you have questions ask me on Olivia.Walter.Musictheory@gmail.com or just leave a comment!

Have a nice day! See you in the next lesson!

/ Olivia J