* Whole note (semibreve): lasts for four beats
* Half note (minim): lasts for two beats
* Quarter note (crotchet): lasts for one beat
* Eighth note (quaver): lasts for half a beat
* Sixteenth note (semiquaver): lasts for a quarter of a beat
* Thirty-second note (demisemiquaver): lasts for an eighth of a beat
Short notes
* Sixty-fourth note (hemidemisemiquaver): lasts for a sixteenth of a beat
* One hundred twenty-eighth note (semihemidemisemiquaver): lasts for a thirty-second of a beat
* Two hundred fifty-sixth note (demisemihemidemisemiquaver): lasts for a sixty-fourth of a beat