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Rests

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Rests

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- All right, so we've covered durations of sound, now let's cover durations of silence. So, just like we had a Whole Note that lasted for four beats, a Whole Rest is silent for four beats, and a Half Rest is silent for two beats, and a Quarter Rest is silent for one beat. Okay? You just have to get used to seeing them. A Whole Rest looks like a hole, if a man were walking down a street, he just fell into it. A Half Rest looks like a hat that you'd put on, and a Quarter Rest looks like a lightening bolt. Now, how to technically play those, you do have to either dampen the string with your right hand, like this. (guitar chord) Or even with the pick. (guitar chords) Just something that will stop the sound. Or, if it's from a fretted note, you can actually just pick up your finger, just don't pick it up too fast, to actually sound an open string, but it's play like this. (guitar chords) So those are the ways that you play rests. Let's try the next song, which I'm sure you guys all with…

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