Music: The Rests Symbols in Music

The rests symbols in music indicate the duration time for not playing (silence) for certain instruments or all simultaneously.

The rests and its silence in beats

1. whole rest 4 beats

2. dotted half rest 3 beats

3. half rest 2 beats

4. dotted quarter rest 1 1/2 beat

5. quarter rest 1 beat

6. eighth rest 1/2 beat

7. sixteenth rest 1/4 beat

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