There is one 1/4 of a beat in a sixteenth note, if a quarter note gets one beat. This is not true for all signatures.
The value of the beats doubles or halves.
Whole note = 4 beats (half of 4 is 2)
half note = 2 beats (half of 2 is 1)
quarter note = 1 beat ( half of 1 is 1/2)
8th note = 1/2 beat ( half of 1/2 is 1/4)
16th note = 1/4 beat ( half of 1/4 is 1/8)
32nd note = 1/8
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In 4/4 time, (granted that each quarter note gets 1 beat), sixteenth notes get 1/4 of a beat.
In 4/4 2/4, 3/4, 5/4, or "anything"/4 time, a sixteenth note gets 1/4th of a beat.
In 6/8 or "anything"/8 it gets half of a beat.
Get this; in 4/2 time it gets 1/8th a beat. From this point you should be able to do the math.
notes arent beats. notes are sounds that go on top of or in between beats. for example: if you got a piece of music written in 4/4 time, that would be 4 beats to that measure. then you place whatever kinda notes you want inside that measure. first beat use a quarter note, second beat you can use twoh notes 3rd beat you can use 4 16 notes and the 4th beat you can use 8 32nd notes. you can mix and match. hope that makes sense
That depends on the time signature and the tempo, among other things. The most common time signature is 4/4, meaning there are 4 beats in each "bar" of written music and a quarter note gets 1 beat. An eighth note gets half a beat and a sixteenth note gets 1/4 beat. But different time signatures can make it longer or shorter. Then there's the tempo of the song, such as adagio (very slowly), andante (moderate), allegro (quickly), or presto (extremely fast). A song might be marked to have one type of tempo throughout, but very often the tempo is changed during the piece to suit the mood the composer wishes to convey.
A sixteenth note has two flags or beams: Sixteenth notes are one fourth of a beat in 4/4 time. This means that there are four sixteenth notes in a quarter note and two sixteenths in an eighth note. Subdividing with Sixteenth Notes
The clue is in the name of the note. The sixteenth (or semiquaver) is one-sixteenth of a whole note (or semibreve). Look at the time signature of your piece of music: a semiquaver rest will occupy exactly the same number of beats as a semiquaver note. For example, if your piece is in 4/4 time, it will occupy a quarter of a beat.
In 3/4 time (whether you are playing a piano or a kazoo), there are 3 beats to the measure and a quarter note gets one beat. There are four sixteenth notes to a quarter note so the sixteenth note gets 1/4 of a beat or, another way to look at it is it takes 4 sixteenths to make a beat.
If it is 4/4 time, then it gets 1/4 of that quarter note. So meaning there would be 16 sixteenth notes in a measure if you filled the bar with sixteenth notes.
2 sixteenth note
A semiquaver or a sixteenth note takes 1/4 beats according to the common convention that a quarter note takes one beat.