Rest notes
Lets take a look at the rest notes
When a musician plays a piece of music is it continuous music? Are there short or long rests where no note is played? There sure is! And the sheet music has a way to show you, the musician, where to take these rests and how long to take them. This is done with the rest notes.
Don't skip over this section. Rest notes are just as important as played notes. And you have to understand how to read them. But they are easy - after all they mean you don't have to play anything; you just rest.
The whole rest note is shown here.
This measure shows a rest. You would not play any notes for the duration of this measure. The rest is the little rectangular object hanging from one of the lines. This shows a whole note rest. It is the same duration as a whole note.
Every note duration has an equivalent rest duration. Here are the more common rests:
Lets look at these measures from left to right
The first measure shows a whole note rest so you rest for the whole four beats of the measure
The second measure shows a half note being played (thats two beats, or half the measure) then a rest for the other two beats of the measure. No note is played for the final two beats (half note measure rests on top of the line)
The third measure shows three quarter notes and one quarter note rest. So you would play the three quarter notes, each getting a beat then you would rest for one beat
The fourth measure shows eighth notes. And these notes are pretty quick so each one would only last a half of a beat. In this measure you would play seven eighth notes then rest for the last half beat.
Of course rests don't always occur at the end of the measure. They could be anywhere and for any duration. Here is an example:
Various rests shown here
In this example the first measure starts out with a note played then you rest a quarter and then rest a half.
Then in the second measure you play a quarter note, play a second quarter note, rest for a quarter note then play another quarter note.
Now
continue on to the dotted notes
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