There are 1 and a half beats in a dotted crotchet.
Assuming they are crotchet beats, the note worth three crotchet beats would be a dotted minim.
Assuming they are crotchet beats, the note worth three crotchet beats would be a dotted minim.
It's called a dotted minum
A dotted crotchet is worth one and a half beats .
6 crotchet beats
2/4 is an example of a time signature. The top number tells you how many beats are in the bar, in this example 2. The bottom of the time signature tells you what type of beats they are: in this case they are crotchet beats because of the 4. 2 on the bottom means minum beats, you can sometimes get 1 for semibreves and 8 is for measuring in quaver beats. These are the most common I think. If you have 8 on the bottom and the top number is a multiple of 3 I think you tend to count in dotted crotchet beats. You divide the top number by 3 to get the number of dotted crotchet beats per bar. I.e. 9/8 is 3 dotted crotchet beats per bar. I apologise for going off on a tangent there but hope that's useful too. So, 2/4 means 2 crotchet beats per bar. (It's simple duple time; duple because there are two beats in a bar and simple because they are crotchet beats. Dotted crotchet beats would make it compound).
Half of a dotted crotchet is a dotted quaver.
1 and a halfIt's half as long again, i.e. three quavers long instead of two.
Adding a dot to a note takes half of the value of the original note and adds it to the original value of the note. So in other words, a note's value multiplied by 1.5 is equal to the dotted notes value. A dotted crotchet is worth one and a half beats, assuming each crotchet is worth a beat.
Crotchet - 1 beat Quaver - Half beat Semi-Quaver - Quart of a beat Dotted Crotchet - 1 and a half beats Minim - 2 beats Dotted Minim - 2 and a half beats Semi-Breve - 4 beats Breve - 8 beats
If the crotchet is considered to have the unit beat, a semiquaver has 1/4 beats.
It has 1 and a half beats :D