In music, silence is just as important as sound. How do we notate silence? We notate silence by using symbols called rest notes or rests.

There is an equivalent rest symbol for each note value. Below we can see the corresponding rest symbols for the note values we already know:

Note Name (USA)	Note Name (England)	Symbol	Rest
Whole Note	Semibreve
Half Note	Minim
Quarter Note	Crotchet

Example:

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Translated by Dan Román, revised by Sue Talley.

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