Notes and Rests

• Different note shapes determine the lengths of sounds in music.
• Different rest shapes determine the lengths of silence in music.
• The names of the notes and rests correspond to how much of a beat the note or the rest is to last.

Here are the different notes and their corresponding rests:

whole note		whole rest
half note		half rest
quarter note		quarter rest
eighth note		eighth rest
sixteenth note		sixteenth rest
thirty-second note		thirty-second rest