Ties, rests and grouping
Recap: ties
A tie joins two notes of the same pitch into one sound, often across a barline: add the two lengths together.
Grouping rests
Rests are grouped so a player can always see the beats:
- Finish the beat first, then give each whole beat its own rest.
- In 4/4, half a bar of silence can be one minim rest, but only on beat 1 or beat 3, never across the middle of the bar.
- A whole bar of silence is a semibreve rest, in any time signature.
Grouping notes
Beams follow the same rule: a beam stays inside a beat. In 3/4 six quavers go in three pairs; in 4/4 four quavers can share a beam on beats 1 and 2 or 3 and 4, never across the middle; in 3/8 the whole bar is usually one beamed group.
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