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What's
this about "dotted" notes?
If you've been paying
attention J you know now that the notes
in a measure have to add up to what the time signature says. So, in this
example, the DOT adds the value of a sixteenth note to the eighth note it
comes after. The rule is: a dot after a note increases its
value by one note of the next smallest kind. In other words, an
eighth note is equal to two sixteenth notes, but a "dotted" eighth note is
equal to THREE sixteenth notes. (A dotted quarter note is equal to three
eighth notes, etc.)
