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A half note is a musical note that has a time value equal to two quarter notes.

An eighth note (quaver) is 1/2 of a beat.

But instead of clapping ha. Ha. We'll only clap on top. And then we'll pulse our hand once for uh like this ha ah. So with two half notes together it'll sound like ha.

It means 1) a half-note receives one beat (as opposed to the usual quarter-note), and 2) there will be 110 beats in a minute. That is slightly slower than two beats per second. Centuries ago, a half-note received one half of a beat.

A semitone, also called a half step or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically. It is defined as the interval between two adjacent notes in a 12-tone scale.

So if you see a 2 2. We also call that cut time. And it can be shown. By a big letter c with a line going up and down through it cut time top two tells us there are two counts in each measure.

A semiquaver is a musical note played for half the duration of a quaver. It has the time value of a sixteenth of a semibreve (whole note).

Half note rest: Also called a half rest or minim rest, this rest covers half of an entire bar of 4/4. It is one half the length of a whole rest. On a five-line musical staff, a half rest hovers just above the middle line.

So you can see how they line up with each. Other. And of course the half note must be half of something. The whole note the whole note looks like a big bold oval without a stem like.

For example, as 1 Half Note = 2 Quarter Notes, half of a Half Note = 1 quarter note.

In music, rhythm is broken into beats of sound or silence. There are four common type of notes in music: One whole note is four beats. A quarter note is one beat. An eighth note is one half beat.

2 beats The duration of a half note is 2 beats. Notice that the half note is twice as long as the quarter note. Since a half note gets 2 beats, and remember that a quarter note gets 1 beat, that means that you will count and play a half note twice as long as quarter note.