Beaming

Joining notes in music notation

Objectives
• Identify the values of
beamed notes
• Beam quavers and
semiquavers
 •When eighth notes (quavers) and sixteenth notes
(semiquavers) appear alone, they have curved lines called
Beaming flags attached to the right of the stem. When two or more of
these notes appear, they are instead joined by lines called
Notes beams.
 N.B.

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Beams do not Only notes with The number of
change the value of flags can be beams attached to
notes; only their beamed a note’s stem is
appearance equivalent to the
number of flags on
an un-beamed note
 Compare the
number of flags
to beams on
each note
Activity
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