Note duration for the various Types!
Note duration - To be able to read music and even to play any song correctly, you should be able to recognize the duration for which the various notes need to be played. For any song to sound good, you have to play the notes for the right number of beats and also pick them up on the correct beats.
Besides, there are not only notes that you will need to understand, there are also Rests, which you will need to recognize. And why Rests? It is because in any song, you will not find all the instruments playing together right from the beginning to the end of the song. There will be number of beats or bars where you will not be required to play anything, and this is identified by Rests.
It is not at all difficult to learn this concept since the duration depends on the type of the Note/Rest and each type has a fixed length. Besides, there is also a relationship among the various Notes as depicted in the chart below. A similar chart exists for Rests as well. It would be a good idea to refer to the charts as you learn the various types of Notes/Rests.
Relationship
As mentioned earlier, the various Notes - Whole Note, Half Note, Crotchet, Quaver, and Semi-Quaver, share a relationship among themselves with respect to Time, which is as follows.
Four Quarter notes equals one Whole note. Put in another way, the Quarter note is one-fourth or a quarter of a Whole note
Two Quarter notes equals one Half note
Two Eighth note equals one Quarter note
Two Sixteenth note equals one Eighth note
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