In music notation, a sixty-fourth rest is a pause in the music lasting for one-sixteenth of a beat, the same duration as a sixty-fourth note. It is drawn as a thirty-second rest with a fourth flag in the middle of the staff.

On the staff, a sixty-fourth rest looks something like this:


    /\                                                     
---| /-----------------------------------------------------
   |/                  *-/                                 
---/------------------*-/----------------------------------
  /|                 *-/                                   
-/-|/\--------------*-/------------------------------------
|  |  |              /                                     
|--|--|-------------/--------------------------------------
 \ |  |                                                    
--\|_/-----------------------------------------------------
   |                                                       
  \|                                                       

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