Music

Whole note

Hangs down from line

4 beats in 4/4

shh-shh-shh-shh

Whole rest

4 beats in 4/4

shh - shh - shh - shh

• Dotted half note
• 3 beats in 4/4

ta - ah - ah

Half note

2 beats in 4/4

ta - ah

• Half rest
• 2 beats in 4/4

shh - shh

Quarter note

1 beat in 4/4

ta

Dotted quarter note

1 and 1/2 beat in 4/4

tum - ti

Quarter rest note

1 beat in 4/4

shh

Eighth note

1/2 beat in 4/4

ti

Two eighth notes

ti - ti

• Eighth rest
• 1/2 beat in 4/4

sh

Staff

Where music is written

5-lines

Treble cleft

G-clef

Measure

Bar lines divides the staff into measures

• Double bar lines
• Indicate the end of the piece

• Repeat sign
• Play the entire piece again

• Sixteenth rest
• 1/4 beat

• Sixteenth note
• 1/4 beat

• Tie
• Connects heads of 2 notes of same pitch

Indicates to be played as a single note with a duration equal to the sum of the 2 note values

Sharp

When appearing before a note or in a key signature signifies that the note is raised by a 1/2 step

• Flat
• Before a note or in a key signature signifies that the note is lowered by a 1/2 step

• Natural
• Before a note cancels out the previous symbol or cancels out the key signature for that note within that measure only