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Summary: Learn how to read quarter note rests in drum notation and sheet music in this free music video on reading basic drum melodies, rhythms, and rests.

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How to Read Quarter Note Drum Rests

So now we're going to go over the next two measures. And our theme, again, is quarter rests and that each gets one beat and it looks this, this squiggly line here. So, we have one, two, three, four so we're playing on two and four, right? Rest, play, rest, play, one, two, three, four and then our left hand has this nice largo line here with a half note and then a half note tied to a dotted half note. So this is two beats and this gets five beats. So we have one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four. So it sounds like this: one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four. And then our right hand is one, two, three, four, rest, play, rest, play. So when we put it together, we get this nice largo line. And that's our next measure, which we'll go over in just a minute. But we've got this measure down and that's our eighth rest in our reggae rip.

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