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Musical Notes and Values

Music notes form songs and melodies. Each note has it's own value or length, which tells us how long to hold a note out while singing or playing an instrument.

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Can a time signature have more than 4 beats per measure?

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Yes, the time signature can have any number of beats per measure. The starting movement of 'Pictures of an Exhibition' by Mussorgsky, 'Promenade', has 11/4 meter. The famous slow movement in 'Pathetic Symphony' by Tchaikovsky is in 5/4 meter.

What are the different kinds and values of notes and rest?

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there are whole notes, half notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, and quarter notes. there are also whole rests, half rests, eighth rests, quarter rests etc. to find out how they look like, go on google images. to find more info, go on google, ask, yahoo, or msn.

How do you type a musical note symbo?

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If you are using a Windows operating system, hold down the Alt key and enter the ASCII number on the numeric keypad.

Alt + 13 = ♪

Alt + 14 = ♫

You can also use Alt + the Unicode value.

In Linux, you can do this by pressing Ctrl+Shift+u followed by the Unicode value in Hex, then press Enter. However, in most Linux cases, the Ctrl+Shift+U combination usually takes a desktop screenshot. If you know any other combinations, improve above.

2669 = ♩

266A = ♪

266B = ♫

266C = ♬

266D = â™­

266E = â™®

266F = ♯

In Mac OS X, click the flag icon in the right side of your menubar, and choose "Show Character Viewer." On the left side of that window, choose "Miscellaneous Symbols" and scroll down for notes (♩♪♫♬) or "Musical Symbols" for accidentals, barlines and clefs (? ? ? ? ? ♭ ♮ ♯ ? ?).

If you have no flag icon, or if the Character Viewer is not one of the options, open System Preferences (from the Apple menu at the top left), and click "Lanugage & Text," and then "Input Sources" to enable Character Viewer.

Some hints:
  • Make sure your keyboard is in NumLock mode.
  • Note that many laptops have a blue FN key that changes a set of keys (also with blue numbers on them), into a numeric keypad.
  • If you don't have a numeric keypad for some reason, you can open the character map (available on any OS), which will allow you to choose from a graphical list of all available characters by selecting them, also allowing you to search by unicode number and several other options:
    • Windows (before XP):Start>Programs>Accessories>System>Character Map
    • Windows (XP and beyond): Start>All Programs>Accessories>System>Character Map
    • Ubuntu (probably other GNOME based Linux distros too):Applications>Accessories>Character Map
  • Linux using KDE: click the KDE menu and type Character Map

How do you develop the whistle register?

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First you should drink plain water and warm up before any whistling. After that start in vocal fry and slide up in the whistle register because they work in similar ways. ...if it hurts STOP! No pushing. The sound is made by the vocal cords vibrating very fast. This register starts at D#6. The whistle sound may not come out at first it will be very hard to hear but if you have a squeak (the whistle is supposed to just fly out of you. When it does remember what that felt like and squeak some more until your vocal cords are used to the feeling. ***DO NOT LIFT LARYNX IT IS NOT THE WHISTLE REGISTER JUST A VERY HIGH UNHEALTHY NOISE*** Hoped this helped if you have anymore questions just ask.

What note gets one beat in 6 over 8 time?

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The dotted-quarter note in a faster song, or the 8th note in a slower one.

What kind of note gets one beat in 4 4 time?

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a whole note is in fact 4 beats

What musical note is the sound of a flushing toilet?

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There is no musical note that is the sound of a flushing toilet. It's only a sound effect, it doesn't have any tone to it.

What is the name of the note that is half the value of a half note?

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another name for a half note is a minimum note .....................lady davis

What is the meaning of the English musical term 'moderately fast tempo'?

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Andante- a steady walking pace, to be precise. Adagietto means a little faster than adagio. Larghetto is slow, but not as slow as Largo. note: mezzo piano means moderately soft

What songs have a 6 8 time signature?

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The time 6/8 denotes compound duple time. In classical music, a common dance for this rhythm is 'tarantella'. In popular culture, 'Rhythm and Blues' use 6/8 rhythms.

The time value of the notes and the rests?

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In common time:

Whole notes and rests = 4 beats

Dotted half notes and rests = 3 beats

Half notes and rests = 2 beats

Dotted quarter notes and rests = 1 1/2 beats

Quarter notes and rests = 1 beat

Eighth notes and rests = 1/2 beat

Sixteenth notes and rests = 1/4 beat

Values change as the bottom number of the time signature changes

Adding a dot to a note increases its duration by?

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Adding a dot to a note increases its duration by half its value.

What is the combination of musical notes played simultaneously referred to as?

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Most commonly they are referred to as either a scale or a chord. However, other terms include cluster, row or series.

Explain what a dot after a note does to the value of the note?

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A dot beside the note adds one half of the note value to itself.

For instance, in 4/4 time a half note equals 2 beats, but with a dot beside the note it would become equal to 3 beats.

Another example is a whole note in 4/4 time. The whole note would be equal to 4 beats, but with a dot, it would become equal to 6 beats.

What are the lines that musical notes are written on called?

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The spaces between two bar lines in a stave is called as a 'bar'.

What are some examples of alternative music or bands?

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my suggested bands are The Maine. Boys Like Girls. Pierce The Veil. WeThe Kings. A Rocket To The Moon.

Why do some musical pieces start and finish on the same note?

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A song usually begins and starts in the same key, but it doesn't always have to start and end with the same note. However, the last note of a melody can help you guess the key in which that melody was written. For example, if we have a song and it ends with a C, than the key should be C major or minor.

The chord formed on the tonic note -(the tonic being C, in our example) is the most significant chord in a key. To maintain the tonality, our song should finish with the C note (which is the first note of the tonic chord) and start with a note which is contained in the tonic chord (either C, E/Eb, or G). Most of the composers prefer to start with the first note of the chord, so that's why there numerous cases in which the music starts and ends with the same note.

What are the musical notes for ben and hollys little kingdom?

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I think, after some test sounds like: C E G G A G E G lowB D F F E F D C

Is 8 10 time signature?

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What about it? It's effectively what it sounds like, 9 beats per measure. Someone on a music forum described it really well by saying think of it as a 6/8 with an added triplet thrown in. So it winds up having 3 beats, each with a triplet (hence the 9) per bar. Or if you want to simple it up a little you could just count 9 beats.

The value of the note serves as the basis for the relative value of all the other notes?

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I think the answer you're looking for is the whole note. The whole note (generally speaking although there are some exceptions) is worth 4 beats. The order of notes is:

Whole note - 4 beats

Half note- 2 beats

Quarter note - 1 beat

Eighth note - 1/2 a beat

Sixteenth note - 1/4 of a beat

32nd note - 1/8 beat... and the list goes on.

How do you count note values?

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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

What is the rhythm of a guitar?

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It really depends on what music you want to play. My advice would be to go down to a local guitar shop and try out different guitars. You also want to find a guitar that feels right, not just sounds. Everyone's got a different opinion so just experiment. Gibson 355s and Fender Telecasters are stereotypically rhythm guitars and Fender Starts and Gibson LPs are seen as lead guitar, but I've got a Gretsch Pro Jet Black and, personally, I think that's a great rhythm guitar.Overall, it depends on the sound YOU want, so just find some spare time and try out different makes.

Hope I've Helped

Jamie

How many beats in a dotted semibreve?

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A semibreve is a whole note. In 4 pattern time signature, a dotted whole note gets six beats. In an 8 pattern time signature, it would get 12 beats, but I don't think you would ever see that.

What song has 4 beats?

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A whole note in 4/4 time.