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8th and 16th note rests

8th and 16th note rests

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8th and 16th note rests

- [Instructor] Now that we know how to notate eighth and 16th note values, let's talk about how to notate their corresponding rests. So, here we see a graphic of an eighth note. Notice that there is a slanted line with a little curve across the top here with a big dot on the end. It's centered in the middle two spaces, and that dot is just about touching the second line from the top. So, I'd like to start by taking a look at a little exercise. So, I've got a number of measures here that are incomplete because we need to add a rest. So, in this first measure, if we look at this, we're in two-four, and I see that I've got a quarter note and and eighth note. That's gonna add up to one and a half beats, so it looks like at the end of the measure, we need to add a rest that's one half of a beat, which would be an eighth note rest. So, let's add that. In the second measure, we've only got a quarter note, so if we're gonna fill out that with the required rest, we need a quarter rest. In the…

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