In 3/4 time (whether you are playing a piano or a kazoo), there are 3 beats to the measure and a quarter note gets one beat. There are four sixteenth notes to a quarter note so the sixteenth note gets 1/4 of a beat or, another way to look at it is it takes 4 sixteenths to make a beat.
The clue is in the name of the note. The sixteenth (or semiquaver) is one-sixteenth of a whole note (or semibreve). Look at the time signature of your piece of music: a semiquaver rest will occupy exactly the same number of beats as a semiquaver note. For example, if your piece is in 4/4 time, it will occupy a quarter of a beat.
If it is 4/4 time, then it gets 1/4 of that quarter note. So meaning there would be 16 sixteenth notes in a measure if you filled the bar with sixteenth notes.
2 sixteenth note
A semiquaver or a sixteenth note takes 1/4 beats according to the common convention that a quarter note takes one beat.
Well, honey, a half note is worth two beats, and a sixteenth note is worth a quarter of a beat, so you do the math - there are 8 sixteenth notes in a half note. But hey, who's counting? Oh right, we are.
A sixteenth note receives 1/4 of a beat. It is referred to as a "sixteenth note" because it takes sixteen of them to create 4 beats. Most songs contain 4 beat measures known as "common time."
The clue is in the name of the note. The sixteenth (or semiquaver) is one-sixteenth of a whole note (or semibreve). Look at the time signature of your piece of music: a semiquaver rest will occupy exactly the same number of beats as a semiquaver note. For example, if your piece is in 4/4 time, it will occupy a quarter of a beat.
If it is 4/4 time, then it gets 1/4 of that quarter note. So meaning there would be 16 sixteenth notes in a measure if you filled the bar with sixteenth notes.
2 sixteenth note
A semiquaver or a sixteenth note takes 1/4 beats according to the common convention that a quarter note takes one beat.
Well, honey, a half note is worth two beats, and a sixteenth note is worth a quarter of a beat, so you do the math - there are 8 sixteenth notes in a half note. But hey, who's counting? Oh right, we are.
I think it's 28 -- there are four sixteenth notes in one quarter note times seven beats in the measure. However, I've never heard of a time signature with seven beats, so it's probably not very relevant. Also, this answer assumes each beat is a quarter note (not, say, a dotted quarter or an eight).
A dotted quaver (dotted eighth note) is worth 1.5 beats, while a semi quaver (sixteenth note) is worth 0.25 beats. When you add them together, a dotted quaver plus a semi quaver equals 1.5 + 0.25, which totals 1.75 beats.
A whole note is worth 4 beats, a half note is worth 2 beats, a quarter note is worth 1 beat, an eighth note is worth 1/2 a beat, a sixteenth note is worth 1/4 of a beat, a dotted half note is worth 3 beats, and a dotted quarter note is worth 1 and a 1/2 beats.
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.
three because two eighth notes equal one quarter note
Yes and no. Commonly, a quarter note gets one beat, an eighth note gets half, and a sixteenth note gets one fourth of a beat (4-4 time). Occasionally, a song will be in 4-8 or 2-8 time, then the quarter note gets two beats, the eighth note gets one, and the sixteenth note gets half a beat. That help?