15: New Notes
rest falls on, the upbeat (when your foot is up), or the downbeat (when
your foot hits the floor).
Here are a few measures of eighth notes and eighth rests with the
counting. Be sure to count it rhythmically, and say the rests more
quietly than the notes.Example 15.4 A whole mess of eighth rests and eighth notes, with counting.
Sweet Sixteenth Notes
Why sweet? Because sixteenth notes are the last type of note you’ll learn
in this book. Yippee!
You’ve probably already figured out that, because of the name, there are
16 of these babies in each whole note. Okay, time for a little math. If you
divide up 4 beats (the whole note) sixteen ways, how long is each
sixteenth note?
The answer is...1/4 of a beat.
So there are 16 sixteenth notes in one whole note,
or 8 sixteenth notes in one half note,
or 4 sixteenth notes in one quarter note,
or 4 sixteenth notes in one beat of 4/4 time,
or 2 sixteenth notes in one eighth note.
So what do they look like? Coming up. Sixteenth notes also have flags,
with one added bonus: there are two of them.
When a flag is added to a note, it cuts the note length in half.