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What does a quarter note look like?
A filled-in notehead with a stem.
What does a quarter rest look like?
A squiggly line.
What does an eighth note look like?
A filled-in notehead with a stem and a flag.
What does an eighth rest look like?
A slanted line with a dot.
What does a sixteenth note look like?
A filled-in notehead with a stem and two flags.
What does a sixteenth rest look like?
A slanted line with two dots.
What does a half note look like?
An open notehead with a stem.
What does a half rest look like?
A filled-in rectangle sitting on top of a line.
What does a whole note look like?
An open notehead without a stem.
What does a whole rest look like?
A filled-in rectangle hanging down from a line.
What does a dot after a note do?
Increases the note's duration by half of its original value.
What does a tie look like?
A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch.
How do you indicate triplets?
A bracket with a '3' above or below the notes.
When does a stem go up?
When the note is below the middle line of the staff.
When does a stem go down?
When the note is on or above the middle line of the staff.
Where do dots go if the note is on a space?
In the space.
Where do dots go if the note is on a line?
Above the line.
What is a general rule for beaming notes?
Beam notes together to make a full beat.
Should you beam notes across the middle of a measure?
No, unless it's an odd-numbered time signature.
What does this symbol ♩ represent?
A quarter note, which gets one beat.
What does this symbol ♪ represent?
An eighth note, which gets half a beat.
What does this symbol ♫ represent?
Two eighth notes beamed together.
What does this symbol ♬ represent?
Two sixteenth notes beamed together.
What does this symbol sixteenth note represent?
A sixteenth note, which gets a quarter of a beat.
What does this symbol ◯ represent?
A whole note, which gets four beats.
What does this symbol ⚪ represent?
A half note, which gets two beats.
What does this symbol represent?
A quarter rest, which lasts for one beat of silence.
What does this symbol represent?
An eighth rest, which lasts for half a beat of silence.
What does this symbol represent?
A sixteenth rest, which lasts for a quarter of a beat of silence.
What does this symbol represent?
A half rest, which lasts for two beats of silence.
What does this symbol represent?
A whole rest, which lasts for four beats of silence.
What does a dot after a note mean?
The dot adds half of the original note's value to itself.
What does a curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch indicate?
A tie, which combines the duration of the two notes.