what how long is a note held if it is an eighth note and it has a slash through it??? thanx!!in advance!
2006-08-27 11:31:17 · 7 answers · asked by sheistoofurious! 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Performing Arts
If it's also really tiny and comes right before a regular note, you're dealing with a grace note. The idea is to play it as quickly as possible right before getting to that regular not on it's duly appointed count.
If it's a regular sized note, I'm guessing that you're reading a percussion part of some sort and it means to double bounce that stroke, thus replacing the eighth note with two bounced sixteenths.
2006-08-27 12:33:40 · answer #1 · answered by Arrow 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The note could be either a grace note or a double note (I don't know the name for the latter). To tell if it is a grace note, the note head and stem would be smaller than the other notes. Also, the eighth note would probably not be attached to another eighth note. The double note would (where you would play that note half the duration twice, e.g. instead of one A eighth, it would be two A sixteenths) probably have little dots over it to indicate it is such. I'm betting on a grace note, really. This means that the note is a value that is take from the note it precedes and is probably quick. A lot of times it is up to the performer's interpretation how long to make it.
It would sort of be like this (sorry, this is a bad example, I know):
Ba-DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
the Ba, is the grace note, and the DAAAAAAAetc. is the note after the grace note.
2006-08-27 20:39:09 · answer #2 · answered by musikgeek 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The single slash means to cut the value in half, so you play 2 sixteenth notes. As far as how long that would depend on the time signature and the tempo. The time signature would tell you what kind of note is going to get the beat. That way you know the relationship of your eighth note to the beat. Then the tempo would finish telling you how fast you eight note would be. Example: an eighth note in 6/8 with a tempo of Andante would not be very fast. However and eighth note in 2/2, or cut time, with a tempo of Allegro would be pretty fast.
2006-08-28 13:50:06 · answer #3 · answered by Rick D 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An eighth note bearing a slash through the stem means you play it as a 16th note.
2006-08-27 21:55:30 · answer #4 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe you are supposed to play it as if there were 2 eighth notes there. So, one eighth note with a slash through it equals 2 eighth notes.
2006-08-27 19:30:21 · answer #5 · answered by ♫ Violinist ♪ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rick is correct. Composers will use the slash instead of writing out two 16th notes as a short cut. Sixteenths are counted 1e&a 2e&a 3e&a 4e&a in a 4/4 measure.
2006-08-29 03:10:09 · answer #6 · answered by runningviolin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought it would be a sixteenth
2006-08-27 20:57:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋