it's a bit annoying that people are imitating me and saying that they've done the next musical step. I have done what you said (beamed quavers etc) anyway. obviously these questions are open to the public (rightfully so) so anyone can gain from your answers. just a bit lame that they even try to copy my writing style haha. thanks for all the help so far
i am sorry about that. i hope you have gotten the info you need. you asked so earnestly how to read i figured i would tell you the first steps. but you have followed all the steps so far, so i guess i have to keep giving the next steps. basically i am trying to get the rhythms squared away before you start doing pitches. i mean it's a very organized system. after getting this far, you should be able to figure it out yourself. once you know what quarter notes and 8th notes are you can easily figure out how 16th notes work. the beaming and flagging rules get a little interesting once you start putting rests in interesting places. but let's try this: let's do offbeat 8th notes. so that means start with an 8th rest (looks like a weird 7, for no reason) then an 8th note. NOT beamed, but it will have a flag. if you just look up an image for an eight note you should see it. looks like a quarter note with a flag on top. so do 8th rest, 8th note. four times, and that should fill up the bar. so it sounds the same as a bar full of 8th notes, but every other one (alternating) will be missing. if you could link me to an imgur image or something i could easily confirm if you are doing it right. but otherwise i will have to just hope that you are doing it right. if you play this rhythm, with a metronome, the notes will be exactly in between the clicks. i hope that makes sense. please i would like to remind everyone that this is a multi part question that was started on 11.29.16 at 1:52pm, with the question "how to learn to read music?". If you are prompting me to go to the next step, and you are not the original person who posted that question at that time, you are being dishonest, and that is something you are going to have to live with