| You may see a
note pyramid on posters and in music books, this shows us the
break down of note values.
For example
the semibreve splits into 2 minims, each minim splits into 2
crotchets, each crotchet splits into 2 quavers and this
continues as the notes get shorter and shorter. |
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The notes
opposite are called quavers and you can see from the
note pyramid that there are 2 quavers in every crotchet –
which means they are ½ beat notes.
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When
quavers are written next door to each other they are beamed together, like the
ones marked opposite. |
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When
quavers are written alone they are not beamed, instead they have
a tail. |
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The symbol
marked opposite is a quaver rest.
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| You may notice in
some music you have the symbol marked below with numbers above
the bars. This is called bars rest, the
number changes depending on how many bars rest there are.
In the example we would count (in our heads)
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1234 - 2234 - 3234 - 4234 - 5234 - 6234
This so we don't forget where we are in the
piece. |
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