16th note beats

1. How many beats is a sixteenth note?
2. How do you read 16th notes?

How many beats is a sixteenth note?

A sixteenth note gets one-fourth of a beat, which means four sixteenth notes will make up one beat. They have a filled-in note head, a stem, and two flags.

How do you read 16th notes?

In this simple counting method, musicians use the syllables “e”, “and”, or “ah” to denote 16th note rhythms. Using the syllables “1-e-and-ah” to count out 16th notes, the musician can easily count out a complicated syncopated rhythm.