Eighth rest (quaver rest)
An eighth rest gives the same silence as an eighth note, half the duration of a quarter rest. It has one flag; each additional flag halves a rest's duration.
- Notes and rests
- On the staff itself
- A hook or flag, A dot
Do not confuse it with
A sixteenth rest has two flags; an eighth rest has one.
What the sources say
- Notating Rhythm — Rest Values
Adding a flag to a rest (i.e., eighth to sixteenth) decreases a rest's duration by half.
- Rest Duration
With one flag, an eighth rest has the same duration as an eighth note.
- An introduction to music theory — Values and dots
the number of flags on the quaver, semiquaver and demisemiquaver rests is the same as the number of flags for their respective time values.