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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Note Durations

Notes are made up of a durations, or beats.  The top note shown below is a whole note and gets 4 beats.  It is broke up into two half notes that both get 2 beats each.  The half note is broke into a quarter note which gets 1 beat.  So if you tap your foot, a quarter note counts for each time you tap.  Next is the 8th note and it takes two 8th notes to equal a quarter note.  Finally, it takes two 16th notes to equal an 8th note, or four 16th notes to equal a quarter note.  This chart below shows a great representation of these durations.



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