Note Grouping, Rests & the Upbeat

How notes and rests are grouped inside a bar so the beat stays visible, and how an upbeat borrows time from the final bar.

What's inside

• Beam quavers in twos — one beam per beat, with avoid/do-this notation examples for 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and 3/8
• A table of what each time signature groups into: beats per bar, how quavers beam, and the rule underneath
• Rests keep the beat visible too — avoid/do-this examples for splitting a two-beat rest correctly
• The upbeat (anacrusis) and the bar it borrows from, with a worked example and definition