How to Read Ukulele Tab Part 9

September 16, 2009

A recent comment from George made me realise that I’d completely forgotten to include rests in the How To Read Ukulele Tab series. So here it is. Better a year and a half late than never.

Rests indicate that there shouldn’t be anything playing at all. That means if there was a note played before you should stop it ringing. Rests look different depending on how long they last.

Whole Note/ Semibreve Rest

1

Half Note/ Minim Rest

21

Quarter Note/ Crotchet Rest

3

Eighth Note/ Quaver Rest

4

Sixteenth Note/ Semi-quaver Rest

5

You’ll sometimes see rests with a dot after them. This means you should increase the length of the rest by half (e.g. a minim rest with a dot after it would last for three beats).

This series was derived from my ebook Ukulele 101: 101 Things Every Ukulele Player Needs to Know.

Read the full series here: How To Read Ukulele Tab.

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3 Responses to “How to Read Ukulele Tab Part 9”

  1. Armelle on September 16th, 2009 7:10 pm

    Thanks for the information, Al. I have been wondering what these signs meant and had chosen to just ignore them. Now I know what they mean.

  2. Nelson on September 17th, 2009 1:57 pm

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  3. Woodshed on September 18th, 2009 4:42 pm

    Armelle: Glad I could finally solve the mystery.

    Nelson: That incident almost made me feel sorry enough for Taylor Swift to write up her ukulele song. The thing that must really have stung her is that Kanye was so obviously right.

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