Note Durations
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Rhythmical Exercise
Tap your foot and clap your hands twice faster than a foot tap.
You will clap two eighth notes per one quarter foot tap.
Experiment with various note durations.
![In a musical score it shows one whole note equals two half-notes, equals four quarter notes equals eight eighth notes.](https://cnx.org/resources/02b3dcafe15c45a0dd5bc1c2261ba0498de65c9f/notes3.png)
Note Durations
Durations of Rests
Rests identify measured segments of silence in a piece of music. A rest is an interval of silence in a piece of music, marked by a symbol indicating the length of the pause. Each rest symbol corresponds with a particular note value:
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