Note Names
This type of note gets 2 beats.
What is a half note?
This is a symbol for certain amounts of silence in music.
What is a rest?
A quarter note or a quarter rest gets this many beats.
What is 1 beat?
Write the counts for rhythm 1 on the board:
Quarter note, quarter note, quarter rest, quarter note
1 2 3 crossed out 4
Write a note or rhythm on the board with two beats?
What is a half note? (Other answers may be accepted)?
This type of note gets 4 beats.
What is a whole note?
This type of rest looks like a hat and gets 2 beats.
What is a half rest?
A whole note or a whole rest gets this many beats.
What is 4 beats?
Write the counts for rhythm 2 on the board
A quarter note, half rest, two eighth notes.
1 2 crossed 3 crossed 4 +
Write a note or rhythm on the board with one beat.
What is a quarter note? (Other answers may be accepted)?
This type of note gets 1 beat.
What is a quarter note?
This type of rest looks like a hole in the ground and gets 4 beats
What is a whole rest?
A half note or a half rest gets this many beats.
What is 2 beats?
Write the counts for rhythm 3 on the board:
Half note, 2 eighth notes, Quarter note
1 2 3 + 4
Write a note or rhythm on the board with four beats.
What is a whole note? (Other answers may be accepted)
This type of note gets 1/2 a beat.
(Hint: 2 of these = 1 beat)
What is an eighth note?
This type of rest looks like a fancy number 7 and get's 1/2 a beat
What is an eighth rest?
An eighth note or an eighth rest gets this many beats.
What is 1/2 beat?
Write the counts for a whole note:
1 2 3 4
Write a rhythm on the board with seven beats.
What is a whole note, half note, and quarter note? (Other answers may be accepted)
This type of note gets 1/4 of a beat.
(Hint: 4 of these = 1 beat)
What is a sixteenth note?
This type of rest looks like a Z and a C (or like a lightning bolt) and gets one beat
What is a quarter rest?
2 eighth notes gets this many beats.
What is 1 beat?
Write the counts for a whole rest:
1 2 3 4 all crossed out
Write a rhythm on the board with 10 beats.
What is two whole notes and a half note? (Other answers may be accepted)