In music, a 1/16, sixteenth note (American) or semiquaver (British) is a note played for half the duration of an eighth note (quaver), hence the names...

duration of a quarter note (crotchet), one quarter the duration of a half note (minim), and twice the value of a sixteenth note. It is the equivalent...

staccatissimo crotchet (quarter note) would be correctly played in traditional art music as a lightly articulated semi-quaver (sixteenth note) followed by rests which...

note or sixteenth note subdivisions) alternate between long and short durations. Certain music of the Baroque and Classical era is played using notes...

half as long as a sixteenth note (or semiquaver) and twice as long as a sixty-fourth (or hemidemisemiquaver). Thirty-second notes are notated with an...

(semiquaver), creating a note 5⁄4 as long as a quarter note, or five times as long as a sixteenth note—there is no single note value to express this duration...

sometimes even stretching for two whole octaves within the time of a sixteenth note. As a whole, the étude can be practiced to increase dexterity and accuracy...

means to apply an even greater amount of inequality to dotted eighth–sixteenth note pairs than to eighth–eighth pairs, which are already understood to be...

reason that notes with many beams are rare is that, for instance, a thirty-second note at = 50 lasts the same amount of time as a sixteenth note at = 100;...

to sound them) instead of pitch. Note value expresses the relative duration of the note in time. Dynamics for a note indicate how loud to play them. Articulations...

Quarter Note: Ta 2 Eighth Note: Ta Te 4 Sixteenth Notes: Tafa Tefe Whole Note: Ta-a-a-a or to-o-o-o Half Note: Ta-a or too Quarter Note: Ta 1 Eighth Note: Ti...

popular music drumming, ghost notes are ones played "very softly between the 'main' notes," (off the beat on the sixteenth notes) most often on the snare drum...

features all drums on the eighth note subdivision or variants with one or more drum's pattern displaced by a sixteenth note: This resembles a combination...

attacking the notes. The next section, devoted to syncopation, goes from a simple quarter-half-quarter rhythm to a sixteenth-eighth-sixteenth repeated rhythm...

In music notation, a note value indicates the relative duration of a note, using the texture or shape of the notehead, the presence or absence of a stem...

running semiquavers (sixteenth notes) in the left hand. Several times during the piece the right hand plays a triple-dotted minim (half note), lasting 15 semiquavers...

rhythmic percussion, with the lower strings playing 'eighth note – sixteenth note – sixteenth note' figures. The violin boldly enters with the first theme...

a distinctive pattern of eleven sixteenth notes and a sixteenth rest, or ten sixteenth notes and a single eighth note. Large leaps in the melody occur...

rock melody alternates between syncopated phrases at the eighth-note and sixteenth-note levels. The arrangement of "Tied Together with a Smile" is composed...

song. For example, a drummer may fill in the end of one phrase with a sixteenth note hi-hat pattern, and then fill in the end of the next phrase with a snare...

staccato, eighth notes and rests (bars 27–30) sixteenth-note extensions of melody with upper neighbor notes (bars 31–38) repetitive sixteenth-note patterns (bars...

of rapid sixteenth notes, played by the woodwinds and temple blocks at first and then the entire band. It ends with a set of sixteenth notes played by...

note and rest values have names that indicate their length relative to a whole note. A half note is half the length of a whole note, a quarter note is...

up-beat (such as an even-numbered eighth note or, at faster tempos, sixteenth note) will always be played with an upward picking stroke, while the down-beats...

A minor, consists of a rising sixteenth-note melody followed by a falling eighth note melody over a staccato eighth-note accompaniment. It is eight measures...

Whole note B4 / Eighth note A4 / Sixteenth note E♭4 / Eighth note A♭3 / Eighth note B♭3 / Eighth note E4 / Dotted eighth note F♯4 / Quarter note G3 / Half...

now accommodate possible 16 note placements." Specifically, by having the guitar and drums play in "motoring" sixteenth-note rhythms, it created the opportunity...

preludes seem to be at once twenty-four small pieces and one large one. As we note or sense at the start of each piece the various connections to and changes...

over a sixteenth note pattern with occasional sixteenths undamped. Floating is the technique where a chord is sustained past a sixteenth note rather than...

pushed by an eighth note. Also important in the percussion section for bossa nova is the cabasa, which plays a steady sixteenth-note pattern. These parts...