Sheet Music Digital One Minute Lesson #9 - Quarter Notes and Half Notes

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Sheet Music Digital One Minute Lesson #9 - Quarter Notes and Half Notes

In the musical language, we also must have a way of telling you "how long" to hold down each note!

Therefore, different types of notes were created to represent different time values.

The first type we are going to learn about is called the "quarter note".

Below is a picture of a quarter note.

First, count our loud, 1 - 2 - 3 - 4, in a nice even temp 3 times.

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4

Next, we want you to play the E above Middle C on your keyboard each time you say a number.

Below is how it would look on the musical staff.

Notice that each note gets 1 out of the 4 beats,
therefore it is called a 1/4 (quarter note)

Click on the play button to see and hear and count the quarter notes play on the musical staff!

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The second type of note we are going to learn is called the "half note".

Below is a picture of a half note.

Notice that each note gets 2 out of the 4 beats,
therefore it is called a 1/2 (half note)

Below is an example of a song that uses both quarter and half notes. Practice playing along with your keyboard!

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