Sentence examples for a half note from inspiring English sources

"A little more than half could identify a half note.

The A at 62 is now on the downbeat and it's a half note.

For instance a half note with dotGroups = (1, 1) represents a dotted half note that is itself dotted.

In a typical instance, the accent on the first beat will be suppressed by a quarter rest followed by a half note (in 4/4).

Those first notes lengthen by degrees — a quarter note, a dotted quarter, then a half note — and any sense of a steady beat disappears.

Similar in appearance to wooden train tracks, I designed tracks of different lengths corresponding to rhythmic values (for example, the longest piece represented a half note, while a track half that length represented a quarter note).

Because he was hopeless as a singer Loewe once remarked that Harrison had a vocal range of one and a half notes—Harrison developed a technique of talking his way through songs that proved highly effective.

That was a half-note, stupid a half-note.

At the start of his 12th chorus, Mr. Haden joined in, with a half-note bass line that seemed both modest and bravely indeterminate.

Even when I squint, and grade on a curve, it's impossible to ignore how bad McPhee's performance is: the woman was given a one-note character, then took it down a half-note.

Figure 21 Row and column histograms for two differently tagged fragments of a half-note.