Question

What is the total number of beats for a dotted half note?(1 point)Responses55443322

Answer 1

A dotted half note is worth 3 beats (which is the value of a regular half note) plus an additional half of that value (1.5 beats), making a total of 3 + 1.5 = 4.5 beats. However, in traditional music counting, you would typically round this to 4 beats for the purposes of counting within measures.

In some contexts, if you are considering the entire value of the dotted half note, you might say it is worth 4.5 beats, but since the options you provided are whole numbers (5, 5, 4, 4, 3, 2, 2), the best response would align with the more common approximation of 4 beats.

So, the most appropriate answer from the choices would be **4** beats.