ABSTRACT
The quarter-note is interpreted as the beat and the eighth-note is the first subdivision of the beat. This chapter explores learning how to read and perform rhythms that include the second level of subdivision. Exercises only included the first subdivision of the beat. The half-note represents the beat in the examples, so eighth-notes will be performed just as sixteenth-notes are when the quarter-note represents the beat. The eighth-note represents the beat in the example, so the first level of subdivision is represented by sixteenth-notes and the second level of subdivision is represented by thirty-second-notes, which have three beams. Since the quarter-note beat can divide into two eighth-notes, and each eighth-note can divide into two sixteenth-notes, a total of four sixteenth-notes can fit into one beat, when the quarter-note gets the beat.
