Note Values & Rests

A quarter note, also called a crotchet, is a musical note lasting one beat in common time. It is notated with an open notehead and a solid stem, and forms the basic unit of rhythm in many Western music styles.

A dotted note is a musical notation where a dot placed after a note head increases its duration by half of its original value, allowing for flexible rhythmic expression across styles.

A sixteenth note (or semiquaver) is a musical note whose duration is one‑sixteenth of a whole note, equal to a quarter of a beat in common time. It is written with a filled notehead, a stem, and two flags or a beam.

A whole note (semibreve) is the longest standard note value in modern Western notation, lasting four beats in common time and represented by an open oval notehead without a stem.