Eighth note flag note flag (see Figure 1). The stem is placed to the right of the notehead and extends upwards if the notehead lies below the middle line of the staff, and to the left of the notehead extending downwards if the notehead lies on or above the middle line of the staff, in instrumental notation. In vocal music, a middle-line notehead extends upward instead of downward. A related symbol is the eighth rest (or quaver rest), which denotes a silence for the same duration . In Unicode, the symbols U+266A (♪) and U+266B (♫) are an eighth note and beamed
Thirty-second note Thirty-second note In music, a demisemiquaver (British) or thirty-second note (American) is a note played for of the duration of a whole note (or "semibreve"). It lasts half as long as a sixteenth note (or "semiquaver") and twice as long as a sixty-fourth (or "hemidemisemiquaver"). Thirty-second notes are notated with an oval, filled-in note head and a straight note stem with three flags or beams. A single thirty-second note is always stemmed with flags, while two or more are usually beamed in groups. As with all notes with stems, thirty-second notes are drawn with stems to the right of the