Rule of Three:
Each note value contains within it, three of the next smallest note. Ex: one Quarter note equals three Eight notes, and one Half note equals three Quarter notes. So a Sixteenth note equals three 32nd notes.
There are two thirty-second notes in one sixteenth note.
Three. A dot with a note adds one-half that note's value. A single 16th equals two 32nds, so a dot adds an extra 32nd.
2 thirty-second note = 1 sixteenth note
it depends on the tempo
Whole/Dotted whole note/rest, Half/Dotted Half note/rest, Quarter/Dotted Quarter note/rest, Eighth/Dotted Eighth note/rest, Sixteenth/Dotted Sixteenth note/rest. These are the most common note values. They do go on though. All you have to do is multiply each number by two. For example: the next note/rest value after sixteenth is Thirty-second/Dotted Thirty-second. Then sixty-fourth; and so on.
there are six 16th notes in a dotted quarter note
A dotted eighth note is equal in duration to three sixteenth notes.
Oh, this can be so tricky, depending on the meter of the piece in question and how complex the passage is. The quick and dirty answer is that a dotted eighth has the value of three sixteenth notes. You can see that two eighth notes would be equal to 4 sixteenth notes, right? If you pair a dotted eighth note with a sixteenth note (you will see this very often: the two notes are connected with one flag/bar, the dot comes with the first note, and there is an added flag/bar segment to the second note that is short; it doesn't extend back to the first note) then the dotted eighth takes the place of the first 3 sixteenth notes in a group of four sixteenths.
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Whole/Dotted whole note/rest, Half/Dotted Half note/rest, Quarter/Dotted Quarter note/rest, Eighth/Dotted Eighth note/rest, Sixteenth/Dotted Sixteenth note/rest. These are the most common note values. They do go on though. All you have to do is multiply each number by two. For example: the next note/rest value after sixteenth is Thirty-second/Dotted Thirty-second. Then sixty-fourth; and so on.
Whole/Dotted whole note/rest, Half/Dotted Half note/rest, Quarter/Dotted Quarter note/rest, Eighth/Dotted Eighth note/rest, Sixteenth/Dotted Sixteenth note/rest. These are the most common note values. They do go on though. All you have to do is multiply each number by two. For example: the next note/rest value after sixteenth is Thirty-second/Dotted Thirty-second. Then sixty-fourth; and so on.
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there are six 16th notes in a dotted quarter note
A dotted eighth note is equal in duration to three sixteenth notes.
Oh, this can be so tricky, depending on the meter of the piece in question and how complex the passage is. The quick and dirty answer is that a dotted eighth has the value of three sixteenth notes. You can see that two eighth notes would be equal to 4 sixteenth notes, right? If you pair a dotted eighth note with a sixteenth note (you will see this very often: the two notes are connected with one flag/bar, the dot comes with the first note, and there is an added flag/bar segment to the second note that is short; it doesn't extend back to the first note) then the dotted eighth takes the place of the first 3 sixteenth notes in a group of four sixteenths.
Oh, this can be so tricky, depending on the meter of the piece in question and how complex the passage is. The quick and dirty answer is that a dotted eighth has the value of three sixteenth notes. You can see that two eighth notes would be equal to 4 sixteenth notes, right? If you pair a dotted eighth note with a sixteenth note (you will see this very often: the two notes are connected with one flag/bar, the dot comes with the first note, and there is an added flag/bar segment to the second note that is short; it doesn't extend back to the first note) then the dotted eighth takes the place of the first 3 sixteenth notes in a group of four sixteenths.
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Two sixteenths in an eighth. Two eights in a quarter. The dot equals one sixteenth. So that's five sixteenths in a dotted quarter.
Well, if 4 sixteenth notes equal one quarter note (commontime) and a dot (.) adds half of the value, the answer must be 6
Twelve. Remember that the dot always adds one half of the original note to the total - so a dotted half note is three beats in length. (Cut a half note in half and you get a quarter, so a dotted half note is two beats for the half note and one beat for the quarter you added to it) So now you can take those three beats (Three quarter notes) and cut them in half, which is six eighth notes, and then cut that in half and get twelve sixteenth notes. Phew. I hope that made sense.