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The document discusses dotted notes in sheet music, which increase a note's duration by half. It provides examples of dotted half notes, quarter notes, and double and triple dotted notes. The duration is calculated by adding the note value to half, quarter, or eighth of the note's value for double or triple dotted notes.

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Dotted Notes - Sheet Music - Simplifying Theory

The document discusses dotted notes in sheet music, which increase a note's duration by half. It provides examples of dotted half notes, quarter notes, and double and triple dotted notes. The duration is calculated by adding the note value to half, quarter, or eighth of the note's value for double or triple dotted notes.

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What is a Dotted Note?


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Dot is a symbol that makes the note value (https://www.simplifyingtheory.com/note-values-in-sheet-


music-examples/) increase its duration in half. It must be placed to the right of the note or rest.
Please see below:

(https://www.simplifyingtheory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dotted-note-
on-a-half-note.png)

In this example, the dot was placed over a half note


(https://www.simplifyingtheory.com/note-values-in-sheet-music-examples/), and this caused the half
note to have a half note + quarter note, as the quarter note has half the duration of a half note.

A dotted note is equivalent to a note connected to another note with a value equal to its half. Now
look at another example of augmentation dot, this time on a quarter note:

(https://www.simplifyingtheory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dotted-note-
on-a-crotchet.png)

In this case, the quarter note was added to an eighth note (https://www.simplifyingtheory.com/note-
values-in-sheet-music-examples/), as the eighth note is half the length of a quarter note.

Double dot is that which adds half plus a quarter of the note’s value. See below:

Double Dotted Note


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dotted-note.png)

The half note, in this case, was added to a quarter note plus an eighth note.
Notice that the eighth note is half the value of the quarter note, so it represents 1/4 of the half note’s
value.

See the example of a double dotted quarter note also, maintaining the same logic:

(https://www.simplifyingtheory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/example.png)

There is also the triple dot, which consists of the note + 1/2 +1/4 + 1/8 of the note. The idea is the
same as we have been on working so far. Observe:

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Triple Dotted Note


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dotted-note.png)

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