Time Signatures
This time signature has the value of 4-quarter notes each measure.
4
4
This note value is worth 1 beat in 4/4 time.
What is a Quarter note.
This rest is written using the letters z + c and looks like a lightning bolt.
What is a Quarter rest
This dynamic tells you to play the music softly.
What is piano.
This time signature has the value of 2-quarter notes per measure of music.
2
4
This note value is worth half of a beat in 4/4 time.
This rest is written hanging down from the 4th line of the staff and looks like a rectangle.
What is a whole rest.
This dynamic tells you to play the music medium loud.
What is mezzo forte.
This time signature has the value of 3-eighth notes per measure of music.
3
8
This note is worth the value of a quarter of a beat in 3/4 time.
What is a sixteenth note
This rest is written sitting on the 3rd line of the staff and looks like a rectangle.
What is a half rest.
This dynamic tells you to play the music very loud!
What is Fortissimo
This time signature has the value of 2 half notes per measure.
2
2
This note is worth the value of a half of a beat in 2/2 time.
What is a Quarter note
This rest looks like a 7 with a little dot drawn at the top.
What is an eighth rest.
This symbol tells you to play the music very softly.
Pianissimo.
This time signature has the value of 3 half notes per measure
3
2
This note is worth the value of 1 beat in 3/8 time.
What is an eighth note.
What rest fills an entire measure of 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4?
What is a whole rest.
This dynamic tells you to play the music medium soft.
Mezzo piano