How Do You Read Rests In Sheet Music?
” Hi! I’m Katie and I’m here on behalf of expertvillage.com to remind you to keep an eye out for rests. Just as it’s important to be aware of the notes that you are playing it is just as important to be aware of the silences or the rests. Younger or beginning musicians are often tempted to simple read the notes and then jump ahead to the next note but these rests are important because they account for the rest of the time in the measure and if you don’t acknowledge them and count them then you would start the next measure too soon. Here for example we see a piece that is in six eight time, so the eighth note gets the beat and there are six beats in the measure, here a dotted quarter would count for three beats one, two, three, here we have a full rest, a quarter rest excuse me four, five and eighth rest sixth and now all six beats in a measure are accounted for. When playing with an ensemble or some other group it is important to be aware of large spaces of rests, here this twelve mean
