Sixty-fourth note going downward when the note is above or on the middle line of the staff. When the note head is below the middle line the stem is drawn to the right of the note head going upward. A single 64th note is always stemmed with flags, while two or more are usually beamed in groups . A similar, but rarely encountered symbol is the sixty-fourth rest (or hemidemisemiquaver rest, shown on the right of the image) which denotes silence for the same duration as a sixty-fourth note. Notes shorter than a sixty-fourth note are very rarely used, though the hundred
Grace note succeeding note; these linked notes are called Kan-swars (= "grace notes"). Kan-swars deal with so called "touch notes". "sparsh" means "touch" in Hindi (Devanagari). These "grace notes" (acciaccatura) are often referred to as sparsh-swars. "Kan-swars" or "sparsh-swars" can be executed vocally and on instruments in three ways: In a book on Sitar compositions, Kan has been defined as 'fast deflection which can be approached while descending or ascending'. The act of Kaṇ being repeated twice, thrice or four times in a single stroke of mizrāb is called Krintan. Grace note A grace note is a kind of music notation denoting