Sixteenth rest (semiquaver rest)
A sixteenth rest gives the same silence as a sixteenth note, half the duration of an eighth rest. It has two flags.
- Notes and rests
- On the staff itself
- A hook or flag, A dot
Do not confuse it with
An eighth rest has one flag; a sixteenth rest has two; a thirty-second rest has three.
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 two flags, a sixteenth rest has the same duration as a sixteenth 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.