Thirty-second note connected with a beam. Similar rules apply to smaller divisions such as sixty-fourth notes. A related symbol is the thirty-second rest or demisemiquaver rest (shown to the right), which denotes a silence for the same duration. 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
Ghost note are also called "dead notes", "muted notes", "silenced notes" or "false notes". Ghost notes, however, are not simply the unaccented notes in a pattern. The unaccented notes in such a pattern as a clave are considered to represent the mean level of emphasis—they are neither absolutely emphasized nor unemphasized. If one "further" deemphasizes one of these unaccented notes to the same or a similar extent to which the accented notes in the pattern are emphasized, then one has 'ghosted' that note. In a case in which a ghost note is deemphasized to the point of silence, that note then represents