Note Values
Add them up
Meter Matters
Take a Rest
Fancy Ties/slurs
100
The rhythm value that is held for one Beat
What is a quarter note?
100
The sum of two quarter (tas) notes added together:
What is two.
100
This time signature tells you that there are to be 4 heart beats in a song.
What is 4/4?
100
This symbol which hangs down from line four, tells us to rest for four beats.
What is a whole note rest?
100
This curved line connecting these two same notes(B) tells the performer to hold this note for the length of both notes together.
What is a tie?
200
The note value that is two beats long.
What is a half note?
200
The sum of one quarter note plus one half note added together:
What is 3?
200
This time signature indicates that there are 3 heartbeats in every measure.
What is 3/4?
200
This symbol sits on the third line of the staff and tell us to rest for 2 beats.
What is a half note rest?
200
These length of these two notes together.
What are 2 beats?
300
This note value is 4 beats long.
What is a whole note?
300
The sum of two half notes added together:
What is 4?
300
When the number 4 is on the bottom of the time signature fraction, it tells us that this note value gets the beat.
What is a quarter note?
300
This symbol, which looks like a backwards Z, tells us to rest for one beat.
What is a quarter note rest?
300
The length of these two notes tied together.
What is 5 beats?
400
This note, with a dot, is held for three beats.
What is a dotted half note?
400
The sum of a dotted half note plus a quarter note added together:
What is 4?
400
When the number 2 is on the bottom of the time signature fraction, it tells us that this note value gets the beat.
What is a half note?
400
If I add a quarter note rest, a half note rest, and whole note rest, I will rest this for this total number of beats:
What are 7 beats?
400
A curved line that connects two notes of DIFFERENT pitches.
What is a slur?
500
Two of these note values together equal one beat.
What are two eighth notes?
500
The sum of a whole note, a half note, a quarter note, and a quarter note rest all added together:
What is 8?
500
The meter with four quarter-note beats per measure is often symbolized by the following symbol: 
What is Common Time?
500
There are three beats needed to complete a measure. These TWO rests combined will fill the 3 beats:
What is the quarter note rest (1 beat) and the half note (2 beats) rest.
500
I play notes this way when they are connected by a slur.
What is legato, or smooth and connected?