Note Values

A visual tree of how semibreves divide into minims, crotchets, quavers and semiquavers, with British and American names side by side.

What's inside

• A divided-bar diagram showing a 4-beat bar splitting from a semibreve down to semiquavers
• A table pairing British and American note names, e.g. quaver / eighth note
• Beat values and matching rest lengths for each note
• A description of what each notehead, stem and flag combination looks like
• The dot rule for dotted notes, with worked examples