Author: Teacher

Music Time Values

Sound

Silence

Long notes

Number Of Beats

Whole note

4

dotted half note

3

Rests

An added “Dot” means that you add half of the original time value to the note or rest.

Half note

2

Corresponding Fruit

Peach

Quarter note

1

Short notes

Division of the beat

Cherry

Eighth note

1/2

3

3

Strawberry

Triplet

1/3

v

Sixteenth note

1/4

Watermelon

Number of notes for each beat.

A sound for each syllable of the fruit sounds correct rhythm.