How to Read Quarter Note Rests in Sheet Music

Video Transcript

"Now, we are going to look at our next two measures and we are featuring 8th, or quarter note rests. And quarter note rests look like this, this squigly line here and you just rest for one beat. So, we have one, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. And then we have half notes below. We got this. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four and notice we have this half note tied to a dotted half note. So, this gets five beats right? One, two, then three, four, five. So, we got five beats here. So, we have this nice slow measure. Then we go, we speed it up in the next measure which we will go over in just a minute. And again, we will play up to that again. Two, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one two, three, four. One, and two and three and four and one and. So, you hear the doubling, and we will go over that in just a minute."