Rests and Their Values: Silent Beats in Music
by Creouts Publishing © 2026
Price: $3 USD
Subjects: musicElementarySkills,musicEarTraining
Grades: 2,3
Description
STEP 3 of the Rhythm Lab. Also in the series bundle. Self-checking rhythm practice for Grades 2-3: read and hear whole, half, quarter and eighth rests, and count silent beats. 30 cards, 20 scored. THE MUSIC IDEA A rest is a beat of silence, and the beat keeps going. Each rest lasts as long as the note of the same name: whole rest 4 beats (it hangs below the line), half rest 2 (it sits on the line), quarter rest 1, eighth rest half a beat. HOW IT WORKS - 4 learn cards: meet the rests, whole or half, count sounds and silences, listen for the silences. - Round 1: look at a rest. How many silent beats? - Round 2: which rest lasts as long as this note? - Round 3: type how many beats in all, sounds and silences. - Round 4: hear a 4-beat rhythm with rests. Which of 3 rows was it? - Full acorn = a sound beat, empty acorn = a silent beat. SELF-CHECKING, WITH HELP WHEN STUCK - Boom scores every answer. - Two tap-to-show hints per question. - A soft tick on every beat, even during the rests. ACCURACY Every answer is checked by our own software and by AI test solves from the cards and sounds alone, without the key. Not tested with a class. No process is perfect; if you spot an error, please tell us through the store's feedback. HOW IT WAS MADE Text written with AI assistance and fact-checked. All images and music notation are drawn in code; no AI image generators were used. All sounds are made in code. No AI voice. Needs sound. Plays in a browser; needs internet.
Acknowledgements
Music font: Bravura, (c) Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, SIL Open Font License 1.1. Text fonts: Atkinson Hyperlegible, (c) Braille Institute of America, SIL Open Font License 1.1; Fredoka, (c) The Fredoka Project Authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1.