The Values of Notes and Rests

The Value of Notes and Rests

Lesson 4.2

​In your previous lesson, you revisited the element of rhythm and created rhythms based on the symbols you learned.

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Record the following rhythm. Remember to use "Ta" and "Ti Ti" to vocalize your rhythms. You can also clap the rhythm as well

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To read a piece of music, a performer looks at the notes on the page. Musical notes tell the musician what notes to perform and for how long. The different notes tell the performer the duration of each note.

In this lesson, you will make a connection between the rhythm symbols you learned and how they relate to certain notes and their values. Note value means how many beats of sound that note represents.

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A quarter note is a note that receives one beat of sound.

"Ta"

​​Quarter Note

An eighth note is a note that gets half a beat of sound and is often paired with another eighth note to equal one beat.

"Ti-Ti"

​​Eighth Note

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A half note is a note that is equal to two beats of sound.

​​Half Note

A whole note is a note that is equal to four beats of sound.

Whole Note

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Why are a quarter note and a pair of eighth notes both equal to one beat? Respond in 1 or 2 sentences

​The half note looks very similar to the quarter note because they have the same shape.

But looking at the notehead attached to the stem, you can see that the notehead is open rather than closed.

A half note represents two beats of sound.

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The whole note looks completely different from all the other notes that you have explored in this lesson.

The whole has no stem on it at all and equals four beats of sound.

This means that in a four-beat rhythm, this note would be four beats of the same sound.

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Draw

Create a four-beat rhythm using only quater notes, quarter rest, half notes and eight notes.

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Record a four beat rhythm using the following notes

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Match

Match each note or rest symbol with its name

Quarter Note

Half Note

Quarter Rest

Whole Note

Eighth Note

• Quarter Note

• Half Note

• Quarter Rest

• Whole Note

• Eighth Note

Categorize

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Organize these options into the right categories

1 Beat

2 Beats

4 Beats