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The quarter note
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Every note lasts for a number of beats.
Some notes last one beat, some two, some only half a beat. Those long and short notes make the rhythm.
Each of these notes lasts one beat.
The opening of Ode to Joy: twelve notes, every one exactly a beat long.
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A one-beat note is a quarter note.
A quarter note is drawn as a filled black oval with a straight line, the stem. In the music here, one quarter note lasts one beat.
How long does a quarter note last here?
In the game, rhythm is drawn on a single line.
Rhythm has no high or low, so one line is enough. Each filled oval on it is one quarter note.
Each filled oval is a quarter note: one tap, one beat.
A quarter note is as long as one beat, whatever the tempo.
At a fast tempo it is short, and at a slow one it is long. Its name counts beats, not seconds.
At 60 BPM, how long does a quarter note last?
You know the quarter note.
What you learned
- Rhythm is how long each note lasts, counted in beats.
- A quarter note is a filled oval with a stem, one beat long.
- How long that is in seconds depends on the tempo.
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