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The best music theory book for self-study at home available today. Learn how to read and write music in 75 concise lessons you can complete at home. Improve your musical ear with ear-training exercises on 2 included CD's. Test yourself in a review section at the end of each unit. Check your knowledge with the answers in the back of the book.
Music is created by using both sound and silence.
While it’s tempting to just focus on the notes (sound), the rests (silence) are music symbols we don’t want to ignore.
They are just as equally important and give us so much needed variety and contrast.
The first type of rest we will concentrate on is the whole rest.
Whole Rests
Whole rests are similar to whole notes with one difference: Instead of 4 beats of sound, we will have 4 beats of silence.
This means that 4 steady beats of no sound going by (total silence) equals 1 whole rest.
A whole rest looks like an upside down hat or a hole in the ground.
If you can see a flower growing up from the “ground” of this type of rest, then you know it’s a whole rest.
I am showing you this now to help you see the difference between a whole rest and the half rest we are about to learn next.
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