A pause sign tells you to hold the note or rest for slightly longer than its written value. Listen to the two examples below to hear how the same notes sound without and with a pause.

In an exam you may be asked to add missing notes or rests to a piece of written music. In the example below, a rest is missing from bar 4. The time signature tells us there are 3 beats in every ...

Step 1: The above image shows the musical notation symbols for common rests. Each note duration has an equivalent rest ...