Music can be captivating, beautiful, crazy, amazing, and so much more! This mini book will dive into what gives music its heart: rhythm!

To start, this is a note

Sometimes there are lots of these!

And sometimes there is this...

(I hope you never see this!)

In music, there are beats, or pulses that help push the music along, some stronger than others. For example if there are 4 beats, the 1st and 3rd beat will generally be the strongest.

A quarter note usually equals a beat. A whole note has 4 beats and an eighth note is a quarter note divided by 2. Uh-oh, and you thought math wasn't involved!

With that in mind, if you saw a whole note, then you can say it has 4 quarter notes, or 4 beats within it.

This is a half note. It has 2 beats, or 2 quarters within it.