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"Rhythm Note Relationships"
Getting Notes Down Cold

The examples below show equal durations of lengths of time for Notes. The "ties" make the other notes combined to be of the same time count. Let's do the math.

Quarter note math:

quarter-note-math

One Quarter note = Two 8th notes = one 8th note and two 16th notes = 4 sixteenth notes.

Quarter note time - shown tied, each gets one beat and one clap:

quarter-note-math-ties

More “tie” relationships.  Fill in the blanks. 


note-relationships-ties

Counting


Quarter beat equivalents but counted differently:
1 beat each,

quarter-beat-equallents

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