Sentence examples for a half notes from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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

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).

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).

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).

The Western system of proportional note values (for example, quarter note = half of a half note) does not easily cope with fine fluctuations of value; instead, constant changes of metronome tempo mark may be necessary.

There are fermatas, exclamation points, question marks, and, in the middle and at the end, enigmatic signs that look like a hybrid of a half note and a smiley face.

Pay attention to which line of the staff denotes which letter note, and the fact that a quarter note gets one beat, a half note gets two, dotted half gets three, and whole note gets four (and an eighth note gets half a beat).