Rests: Basic Essentials of Music Theory

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Hey! I am Mark Black and I am here on expertvillage.com. I am here to talk to you about music theory and learning how to read music. Okay, what we have not talked about is the other corresponding rests, and so here is a half note and here is the half rest. It sits up on the third line and it is a little rectangle. Here we take two of these to fill up a measure because each one just lasts two beats and the corresponding rest for a whole note is a whole rest. It hangs down from the fourth line, and you are hardly ever going to see this because why would you write two and two beats of songs when you can just write four beats of songs, there are few reasons for it but unless you are a guitar player, playing a lot of rhythm guitar, don’t worry about it. So, we have our quarter rest and our half rest, two beats of silence, and our whole rest, four beats of silence with some rest stuck in. So this would sound like this, here our counting, here’s our beat, and this would be da… da… da… da… da… da… da… da… da… Now it may seem silly that we have to wait on that rest, but in a real song that might be you know, “and I love you so…, Baby….” Notice that rest could be a really exciting part. So do not look at like, you know, who wants to wait around for rest because silence and sounds are what it takes to make music.

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