#WHATS A WHOLE REST HOW TO#
#WHATS A WHOLE REST MANUAL#

I strongly recommend watching the ' Teach Rhythm and Rests' online Course. When I started learning the Ultimate Music Theory Program, so many of my questions were answered! This made such a difference in my teaching. I know that I often questioned why my answer was considered incorrect. To get these resources, join the Ultimate Music Theory Membership!Īs Teachers, we need to be able to understand why we use the rests that we do. Each Blog also has a matching Worksheet (with a corresponding Answer Sheet).

#WHATS A WHOLE REST HOW TO#

This Blog Series will be focusing on how to write rests, and not on WHAT rest to write. This is important! 'Close Enough' is not appropriate in Theory. Work with your Students so that they learn to write this Rest correctly. Remember when we talked about the 'Party Space #3' for Rests ( Writing Rests Blog Series #1 - Breve Rest)? Here is another example of a rest that is connected to the Rest Party Space #3! Pretty cool, eh? Use your Ultimate Music Theory Student Whiteboard to practice drawing that thin rectangle that hangs down from Line #4 and fills the top half of Space #3. When I mark Theory, a common Boo-Boo is when a Whole Rest is written to fill Space #3 (like a Breve Rest). The Whole Rest must always hang from Line #4. If you compare the width of the Whole Rest, it would be approximately the same width as a Whole Note. How to Write a Whole Rest by HandĪ Whole Rest is a long, thin rectangle that is written to fill the top half of Space #3. It is pretty easy to write a Whole Rest by hand so that it looks just like the Whole Rest that is written using a program like Finale.

#WHATS A WHOLE REST MANUAL#

The Norton Manual of Music Notation states that 'Rests should be drawn to resemble those found in engraved music as closely as possible'.Įngraved Music today is typically music that is written using a Computer Program. In Compound Time, a Whole Measure of Silence = a Whole Rest. (When I teach this concept, I really stretch out that word: a WHOOOOOOOOLE Measure of Silence = a WHOOOOOOOOOOOLE Rest!)Ĭompound Time (and Time Signatures with a 16th note as the Basic Beat) is introduced in the Ultimate Music Theory Intermediate Rudiments Workbook. Therefore, a Whole Measure of Silence = a Whole Rest. When a Student progresses to the Basic Rudiments Workbook, they learn that a Basic Beat can also be a Half Note, a Quarter Note, or an Eighth Note. ( in the Ultimate Music Theory Prep 2 Rudiments Workbook.) Students at this level are only studying Simple Time with a Quarter Note as the Basic Beat. I like to discuss with my Students that sound and silence are both a part of their music.Īs Students start to learn about rests, we introduce that a Whole Measure of Silence = a Whole Rest.

Whats a whole rest