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
Grace note Grace note A grace note is a kind of music notation denoting several kinds of musical ornaments. It is usually printed smaller to indicate that it is melodically and harmonically nonessential. When occurring by itself, a single grace note normally indicates the intention of an acciaccatura. When they occur in groups, grace notes can be interpreted to indicate any of several different classes of ornamentation, depending on interpretation. In notation, a grace note is distinguished from a regular note by print size. A grace note is indicated by printing a note much smaller than a regular note, sometimes with a