There are eight demi-semiquavers in one (crotchet) beat.
An eighth note gets half a beat
An eighth note is worth half a beat.
Strangely enough, an eighth note is one eighth of a whole note.
Those two notes equal a dotted eighth note. In terms of beats, (assuming common time) then the eighth note gets a half a beat and the sixteenth note gets a quarter of a beat, so the two of them together get 3/4 of a beat.
An eighth note is one HALF of ONE BEAT ( or quarter note)
An eighth note (if the measure is in 4/4 time), because each measure gets 4 beats, therefore 1 beat is a quarter measure ergo, a quarter note. Half of a quarter is an eighth, therefore a half beat is an eighth note.
A sixteenth note last for a quarter of a beat.
Upbeat
Two eighth notesOne quarter note is one beat
an eighth note or a quavier is worth 1/2 a beat in the bar so the decimal is 0.5
An eighth note (if the measure is in 4/4 time), because each measure gets 4 beats, therefore 1 beat is a quarter measure ergo, a quarter note. Half of a quarter is an eighth, therefore a half beat is an eighth note.
In 6/8 time, the eighth note gets the beat.