Now let's check out an even smaller subdivision of the beat the 16th. Note otherwise called the semiquaver. There are two 16th notes on every eighth note for an every quarter note each and every half note, and as I'm sure you've guessed, 16 and a whole note. While you're learning to play 16th notes, it helps to count them like this, one E and two E and three E and four E and it just helps you to evenly split each beat into four equal parts. The 16th note looks exactly like an eighth note except that it has two flags instead of one. The same principle in joining eighth notes holds true for 16th notes, you can join between two and four 16th notes with a common flag.

Generally speaking, you wouldn't join more than four 16th notes at a time. In this example, we have two bars of 16th notes now Just that I've dropped the tempo to 60 beats per minute to make them easier to play. Here's how it would sound one E and two E and three E and four E and here we have the same example but the first 16th note of each bar is a chord. This is how we play it. One e and two E and three and 40. And to indicate silence for one quarter of a beat, use a 16th wrist, aka a semiquaver wrist.

The 16th wrist looks exactly like the eighth wrist except that it has two flags, just like the 16th note itself. In each bar here, we See that there is a 16th wrist on the third 16th note of beats two and four. Here's how that would sound one E and two E and three and 40 and in the next lesson we will practice writing the examples you just saw. So have your music manuscript book handy.