Note and Rest Values

Lesson 2/31 | Study Time: 5 Min

Course: Rock Drums

Note and Rest Values

The longest note commonly used in music is the whole note, which lasts four beats. The following table shows how the whole note can be divided into shorter notes. Whole notes and half notes are not common in drum notation but are very common in music written for other instruments and are definitely worth learning to recognise and count.

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1- Developing Your Technique 2- Other Time Signatures 3- Note and Rest Values 4- The Triplet 5- Using Eighth Notes 6- Sixteenths on the Hi-Hats 7- Beats Using Sixteenth Notes 8- The Dotted Quarter Note 9- Sixteenth Notes 10- Playing the Open Hi-Hats 11- INTRODUCTION 12- Playing Fills 13- Performing in Public 14- Twelve Note Positions for Triplets 15- Syncopation and Independence 16- 16 Positions for Sixteenth Notes 17- Creating Your Own Variations 18- Rock Beats 19- Notes Used in Drum Beats 20- Parts of the Drumkit 21- Sixteenth Note Figures 22- Analyzing Drum Beats 23- Playing Notes Together 24- Snare Drum Control and Triplet Independence 25- Sitting Position 26- Counting Drum Beats 27- The Shuffle Rhythm 28- Drum Stick Grip 29- How to Read Music 30- The Sixteenth Note Triplet 31- Swinging Sixteenth Notes

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Note and Rest Values