Whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, and sixteenth notes are the most common notes.

1. Whole note

A note refers to a hollow white note without stems and tails. Except for double whole notes, the duration of whole notes is the largest among all notes, and It should prevail. Divide it into two halves.

The whole note is the oldest of the notes and the note with the longest duration.

2. Half note

A note composed of a stem and a hollow note head is called a "half note". Its duration is 1/2 of a whole note. Often used at the end of a song.

3. Quarter note

A quarter note refers to a note duration. In staff notation, a quarter note is a solid elliptical note plus an irregular Talisman stems. A quarter note is one-quarter of the length of a whole note.

4. Eighth note

Eighth note? It is a note duration. If you divide a whole note into eighths, you get an eighth note. The more points you divide, the shorter the duration. The duration of an eighth note is 1/8 of a whole note. Since a whole note is four beats, an eighth note is half a beat.

In staff notation, an eighth note is represented by a solid oval note head plus a stem with a flag-like tail.

5. Sixteenth note

Sixteenth note refers to the black-faced note with two tails. It's half a note smaller than an eighth note. (It is equal to the duration of 1/16 of a whole note) One beat can be divided into four equal parts, each part is a sixteenth note, and is twice as fast as an eighth note. In a full beat, the sixteenth note Two of the diaeresis are on the down beat, and the other two are on the up beat.