Rhythm 2B: 8th rest, 16th note

Topic outline

• Welcome!
  

  Welcome!

  With this course you can practise:

  • Eighth rests
  • 16th notes
  • Dotted eight notes

  Recommended to study before this course:

  • Rhythm 2A
• Eighth rest
  

  Eighth rest

  The eighth rest exists usually in the beginning of a quarter beat (example: measure 1). 

  It exists also after an eighth note (example: measure 2) but it's easier to shorten a note using a staccato dot.

  
  

  • Example mmusic
  • EXERCISES
  • 1. Select wrong measure mmusic
  • 1. Add notes to one empty measure mmusic
  • 1. Tap the written rhythm mmusic
  • 1. Listen and tap mmusic
• 16th note
  

  16th note

  A quarter note can be devided into four 16th notes:

   

  Usually 16th notes are combined with beams (2). An example of common 16th note rhythm figures:

  
  

  
  

  • Example mmusic
  • EXERCISES
  • 2. Select wrong measure mmusic
  • 2. Add notes to all empty measures mmusic
  • 2. Tap the written rhythm mmusic
  • 2. Listen and tap mmusic
• Dotted eighth note
  

  Dotted eighth note

  A dotted 8th note occurs usually in connection with an 16th note.

  
  

  • Example mmusic
  • EXERCISES
  • 3. Click the 1st notes of measures mmusic
  • 3. Add notes to one empty measure mmusic
  • 1. Tap the written rhythm mmusic
• Additional exercises
  

  Additional exercises

  • Mozart - Horn Concerto D I mmusic
  • Mozart - Piano sonata No. 13 (K 333) I mmusic
  • Abba - Fernando mmusic
  • Haydn: Piano Concerto in D major, H.XVIII:11 - III. Rondo all'Ungarese mmusic
  • Haydn Trumpet Concerto mmusic