How can we understand note duration?<\/p>\n
In this guide, you’ll learn the different types of music notes, what they look like, how long they last, and how they work together in written music.<\/p>\n
Music notation has two main parts. These are pitch and rhythm.\u00a0 They are two of the four important elements of music.<\/a><\/p>\n Pitch<\/strong> is how high or low the sound of a single note is.\u00a0 This is shown by its position on the musical staff (the five lines).<\/p>\n If we play a series or line of musical notes one after the other, we produce a rhythm<\/strong>.\u00a0 This is constructed from different types of musical notes of various lengths.\u00a0 In music theory, a musical note’s length is known as its note duration or value.<\/p>\n Note values tell us how long to hold each note for.\u00a0 It also shows us how different types of musical notes relate to each other in time.\u00a0 One music note length works together with other note lengths to produce a line of sound called a rhythm.\u00a0 Different combinations of note lengths produce different rhythms.<\/p>\n (Pieces of music also have time signatures<\/a>.\u00a0 Time signatures are found at the beginning of a line of music.\u00a0 They also help us to understand the rhythm, but we don’t need to worry about these for the moment.)<\/p>\n In this article, you\u2019ll learn all about the music theory concepts<\/a> of note values, and see what they look like on the musical lines.<\/p>\n