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I asked myself the question, how can I write and then print notes on a computer? Of course, I'm not a musician and music notation I understand little, so my research was reduced only to the practical part, namely, not to professional paid programs, but to accessible and, I hope, understandable for most beginners or students. There are three ways to make musical notes: print out a music book and, in the tradition of the old masters, do it by hand, repeating the beautiful curves of the treble clefs; use a program installed on a computer with extensive functionality; turn keystrokes into notes - an extension for google browser chrome. These methods will be discussed separately.

Method one Manual recording

An excellent service of all kinds of templates that are available for download, generatedpaper.com I already wrote about it. So here there is a wonderful section for musicians, there is also a simple music book, but download the chord notation forms in PDF format and print them out.

Method two MuseScore program

A popular program with rich functionality for working with a musical staff, there is also support for MIDI files. You can listen to the result right away. Instructions for working with the program and all the functionality are described on this page, unfortunately, not all instructions are translated into Russian, but I think the built-in translator will help you correct the missing text. A few video tutorials will clearly show how the program works.

Method three google chrome app

When almost all tasks have moved to the clouds, and the browser becomes the main tool, and, in my opinion, google chrome best representative. In a rich selection of applications, there was also a place for musicians who can create compositions by recording works in notes without resorting to programs. Flat , the beauty of the material design of the application and its capabilities can compete with professional programs and, frankly, I just admired. Everything is absolutely clear, despite the fact that there is no Russian language, unfortunately. One-click installation, registration via google account or facebook, and you have access to the world of creativity and a community of musicians around the world. You can share music or listen to works of other authors. You can use the app, or just bookmark the site.

In the end, the last one is the best in my opinion. Flat especially its latest transformation, which made it even more stylish and comfortable, and paid, although not quite cheap, makes this wonderful service for professionals at all.

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Didn’t have a checkered, lined or oblique notebook at hand, but really needed? No problem. You can always download the desired lined sheet and print. On this page there is just a collection of A4 formats that have a certain line. If for some reason, this or that sheet does not suit you, we will teach you to make the necessary line in a matter of minutes.

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The height of the ruler is 8 mm. If you need to set a different ruler size, just change the cell height in the table properties. It's about about DOC file for Microsoft Office. As you already understood, the rulers on the sheet were obtained using a table in which a fixed cell height was set, and the left and right borders were hidden.

Sheet in a cage

A lined sheet in a cage may be needed in different cases:

• I wanted to play dots or tic-tac-toe;
• it is necessary to bend the sheet clearly along the cells;
• I would like to enjoy the game of sea battle.

It is clear that drawing the cells yourself is very long, and the notebooks, as luck would have it, were not at hand. It doesn't matter, just download and print a ready-made A4 sheet lined in a 5 x 5 mm square. Need a different cage size? It's easy to fix. Download the DOC version of the template and change the height and width of the cells in the table properties.

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Pure sheet music You can always buy it, but you can also print it yourself. These free download templates are great for this purpose.

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Musical notation is a kind of language that all musicians understand. Those who decide to try their hand at music need to get acquainted with this language. Everything is not as difficult as it might seem.

Every musical sound is defined by four physical properties:

1. tall
2. duration
3. volume
4. timbre (color)

With the help of musical notation, the musician receives information about all these properties of the sounds that he is going to sing or play on a musical instrument.

Sound pitch (pitch)

All musical sounds are built into a single system - scale. This is a series in which all sounds go one after another in order, from the lowest to the highest sounds, or vice versa, from high to low. The scale is divided into parts - octaves, which contain a set of notes: DO, RE, MI, FA, SOL, LA, SI.

If we turn to the piano keyboard, then in the center of the keyboard, usually opposite the name, is the first octave. To the right of the first octave, above, is the second octave, then the third, fourth and fifth (consisting of only one note “do”). Below, to the left of the first octave, there is a small octave, a large octave, a counter-octave and a subcontro-octave (consisting of the white keys la and si).

They are depicted in the form of empty or shaded (shaded) ovals - heads. Stems can be added to the heads on the right or left - vertical sticks and tails (tails are called flags).

If the stem of a note is directed upwards, then it is written with right side, and if down - from the left. When writing notes, the following rule applies: up to the 3rd line, the stems of notes should be directed upwards, and starting from the 3rd line - down.

Used to write and read music stave (staff). The musical staff consists of five parallel lines (rulers) for recording notes, numbered from bottom to top. The notes of the scale are written on the staff: on the rulers, under the rulers or above the rulers. If the main 5 rulers are not enough to record the note, then additional rulers are introduced, which are added above or below the stave. The higher the note sounds, the higher it is located on the rulers. However, if a musical key is not placed on the stave (stave), then the position of the notes on the stave indicates the pitch only approximately: higher or lower.

Musical key is a reference point that indicates the position of a note with a particular defined pitch. The key must be placed at the beginning of any staff. If there is a key, then knowing where one note is written, you can easily determine the position of another note. The musical notation is more compact, and it is convenient to read the notes when most of the notes are on the main lines of the stave, without additional lines above and below, so there are many musical keys in music. Despite the fact that the total sound range of various voices and musical instruments is about 8 octaves, the range of a single voice or musical instrument usually much narrower, which is reflected in the names of musical keys: soprano - for the soprano register, alto - for alto, tenor - for tenor, bass - for bass (abbreviated as SATB).

Musical keys can be divided into 3 groups:

Key “Salt”- indicates the location of the note "Sol" of the first octave. This key came from latin letter G, denoting the note "Sol". The “Sol” clefs include the Treble and Old French clefs, they look like this.

Key "F"- indicates the location of the note "F" of the small octave. There was a key to the letter of the Latin F (two dots are two crossbars of the letter F). These include the Bass clef, Basoprofund and Baritone clefs. They look like this.

Key “Before”- indicates the location of the note “Do” of the first octave. Derived from the Latin letter C, which stands for the note "Do". These clefs include the Soprano (aka Treble) clef, Mezzo-soprano, Alto and Baritone clefs (the Baritone clef can be designated not only as the clef of the “F” group, but also as the clef of the “C” group). The “Before” keys look like this

The following figure shows various musical keys

Source — https://commons.wikimedia.org , author — Strunin

There are also neutral keys for drum parts and guitar parts (so-called tablature).

Notes intended to be played by a group of musicians are often combined into scores, in which each instrument, voice, or part is assigned separate line, separate staff. The entire score is first united by a solid vertical initial line, and the staves of several parts or groups of instruments are united by a special bracket - accordion.

Accolade comes in the form of a curly or square (straight) bracket. A curly chord combines the parts performed by one musician (for example, two lines of a piano, an organ, etc.), and a square chord unites the lines of the parts different musicians that make up a single group (for example, music for an ensemble string instruments or chorus).

The end of the score or some part is indicated in the notes by a double vertical line. If, in addition to the double line, there are also two dots between the staff lines ( signs reprises), then this suggests that the entire work or some section needs to be repeated.

The notes may meet dotted lines with a figure eight (signs of transfer to an octave). They mean that everything that is in the range of these lines must be played an octave up or down. These octave marks are needed to make it easier to read very high / low notes, which require a lot of additional lines to record.

The main musical steps include 7 sounds: DO, RE, MI, FA, SOL, LA, SI. On the piano, to find these musical steps, you need to focus on the black keys, which are arranged in groups of two or three, two or three. Under any such group, on the left, is the note “Do” and further there are other notes.

There are also derivatives steps(modified main), which are obtained by raising or lowering the sound of the main step by a semitone. A semitone is the distance between any two adjacent sounds (keys) on the piano keyboard. Most often it will be a black key on the right or left. Changed steps are of two types:

• A sharp is a semitone increase.
• Flat - down a semitone.

Changing the main steps is called alteration. There are only five accidental signs: sharp, flat, double-sharp, double-flat and bekar.

Double-sharp raises the sound by two semitones (i.e., a whole tone), double-flat lowers the sound by two semitones (i.e., by a whole tone), and backer cancels any of the listed signs (a “clean” note is played without raising or downgrades).

Notes can have two types of alterations:

1. Random signs - an accidental sign is written immediately before the note that needs to be changed and is valid only in that place or bar.
2. The key signs are sharps and flats, which are written at the beginning of each line near the key and act every time a given sound is encountered, in any octave and throughout the work.

Key signs are set strictly in a certain order:

Sharp order - FA DO SOL RE LA MI SI

Flat order - SI MI LA RE SOL DO FA

Duration

Note durations are related to the area of ​​rhythm and musical timing. Music time special, it flows in even proportions and is comparable, rather, with the beating of the heart. Usually one such beat is associated with a quarter note in duration. At least two types of musical durations can be found in notes: even and odd, and not only notes, but also pauses(signs of silence).

1. Even musical duration- are formed by dividing a larger duration by the number 2 or 2 n (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, etc.). The whole note is taken as the basis for division, which is usually calculated when playing (mentally or aloud counting up to 4) into 4 beats. The same "tailed" eighth or sixteenth notes are often combined into groups under one edge.

The following figure shows notes, the name of their durations, and on the right, pauses of the same size.

1. odd musical duration are formed from splitting the duration not into two equal halves, but into three or any other number of slices, up to 18-19 beats. This is how, for example, triplets (when divided into three parts) or quintuplets (when divided into five parts) are formed.

There are three ways to extend notes and rests:

Dotted rhythm(dotted note) is a dotted rhythm. Points are placed to the right of the note or rest icon and lengthen the sound exactly by half the duration of the note or rest. So, for a half note with a dot, the duration will be not two, but three beats, etc. There may also be a note with two dots: the first dot lengthens its duration by half, and the second dot - by another 1/4 part, i.e. such a note is lengthened by 3/4 of its duration.

- that icon that asks to delay the selected note or pause as much as it feels necessary for the performer. Most musicians are inclined to believe that the fermata also lengthens the note by half (you can take this as a rule for yourself). Fermata, unlike rhythm, does not take into account the time of the bar, this is an additional bonus that slows down the usual movement.

unifying league- links two or more notes that are at the same height and follow each other. Notes under the league are not repeated, but are combined into one duration. By the way, pauses are not united by leagues.

Musical time is very well organized; in addition to beats, larger units participate in its organization - measures. Tact- this is a segment from one strong beat to the next, it contains an exactly specified number of beats. Bars are distinguished visually by separating one from the other with a vertical bar line.

The number of beats in a measure and the duration of each of them is reflected using a numerical time signature, which is indicated immediately after the key characters at the beginning of the piece. The size is expressed using two numbers located one above the other, as if in the form of a fraction.

The size 4/4 (four quarters) means that there are four beats in the measure, each of the beats is equal in duration to a quarter note. It must be remembered that these quarter notes can be broken down into eighths or sixteenths, or combined into half notes or a whole note. The 3/8 (three eighths) time signature means that three eighth notes can also fit in, which can be divided into sixteenth notes or combined into larger ones. For beginners, musical notation usually operates in simple sizes 2/4, 3/4, etc.

The movement of shares can be fast or slow. The speed of movement of parts (performance of a work) is called pace works. The tempo is most often indicated by the Italian word and is placed under the time signature in notes. Also, next to the tempo, an indication of the metronome can be placed: quarter duration = numerical value. This means that the tempo of the piece is a “numerical value” of beats (beats) per minute. The metronome is a pendulum with a weight and a scale, it shows the exact number of beats per minute and looks like this.

The pace can be:

• Slow
  • Grave - hard, important, very slow
  • Largo - wide, very slow
  • Adagio - slowly, calmly
  • Lento - slowly, quietly
• Moderate
  • Andante - calmly, the pace of the step
  • Moderato - moderately
• Fast
  • Allegro - soon, fun
  • Vivo - lively
  • Vivace - alive
  • Presto - fast

Volume

Loudness is one of the most important properties of musical sound. Loudness is indicated in notes between staves by the following words or icons in Italian:

A gradual change in volume is indicated as follows:

• crescendo - crescendo - gradual increase in volume
• diminuendo - diminuendo - gradual decrease in volume

Sometimes, instead of the words crescendo and diminuendo, “forks” are put in the notes, meaning that you need to gradually increase or decrease the volume.

An expanding fork means crescendo, and a narrowing fork means diminuendo.

Timbre

Timbre is the color of sound. The timbre distinguishes sounds of the same height and volume, performed on different instruments, in different voices or on the same instrument, but different ways. With the help of timbre, one or another component of the musical whole can be distinguished, contrasts can be strengthened or weakened.

The notes usually have various indications about the timbre of sounds: the name of the instrument or voice for which the this work, turning the pedals on and off on the piano, sound extraction techniques (flageolets on the violin).

If there is a vertical wavy line in front of the chords in the musical notation, then this means that the sounds of the chord should not be played simultaneously, but arpeggio, as if broken down, by enumeration, as it would sound on a harp or on a harp.

Under the bass staff there may be a beautiful inscription Ped. and an asterisk - they mean the moment when the pedal on the piano is turned on and off.

In addition to these technical elements, scores can contain many composer, verbal, indications of the nature of the performance, for example:

• Appassionato - passionately
• Cantabile - melodious
• Dolce - gently
• Lacrimoso - tearfully
• mesto - sad
• Risoluto - resolutely
• Secco - dry
• Semplice - simple
• Tranquillo - calmly
• Sotto voce - in a low voice

Strokes are another important element in the musical text. Hatch- this is an indication of a specific method of sound production, a method of articulation, which greatly affects general character performance of the work. There are many strokes, they are different for violinists and pianists. Three universal strokes:

• non legato - incoherent performance
• legato - fluid, cohesive play
• staccato - jerky, short performance

If you want to learn how to play any instrument, then you just need to learn musical notation. Many novice musicians neglect the study of musical notation, but sooner or later they realize that without it, progress will be extremely slow. But the time spent on studying it will bring you tremendous benefits. You will be able to study pieces of music, you will be able to understand the composition of a piece of music much faster. Music notation opens up a lot of new interesting material for you, which is simply not possible to study without knowledge of musical notation.

So, musical composition is made up of sounds. To designate sounds, special graphic signs are used - notes, as well as a musical staff. They allow in convenient way show the sequence, duration, pitch and other characteristics of sounds.

Note (lat. nota - sign) consists of an oval [ 3 in fig. ] (empty inside or shaded), to which a calm and a flag [ 1 in fig. ] or checkboxes.

Component notes

Location of notes on the stave. Notes can be written on lines, under lines, and on lines. If necessary, notes can be placed on additional lines above and below the stave. For a more compact notation, stems are drawn like this: if the note is located below the middle line, then the stem is drawn at the top, and if the note is located above the middle line of the stave, then the stem is directed down and drawn to the left of the note. These rules are not binding, they are just guidelines. Sometimes notes are combined into groups breaking this rule. Now summarizing all of the above, let's look at the figure below.

The lines are numbered from bottom to top: 1,2,3,4,5. If there are not enough rulers, then draw additional lines above or below. For example, there are 5 main rulers below, 2 additional lines on top (they are drawn only directly under the notes), and one additional line below.

Notes on the stave

The so-called keys are used to determine the pitch of notes.

Key (Italian chiave, from Latin clavis; German Schlüssel; English key) is a sign of linear notation that determines the pitch value of notes. Relative to the staff ruler pointed to by the central element of the clef, all other pitch positions of the notes are calculated. The main types of keys adopted in the classical five-line clock notation are the "sol" clef, the "fa" clef, and the "do" clef.

In the figure above, a treble clef (clef "sol") is used, which starts from the second line, where the note "sol" of the first octave is written.

From sounds salt the first octave (in the treble clef) and F a small octave (in the bass key) is a record of other sounds up and down.

The higher the notes are on the staff, the higher their sound. The piano has about 80 keys and the same number of sounds, and the stave has only 5 lines, so additional lines, different keys, and several staves are used to record notes in musical notation. Additional rulers are short rulers for each individual note that are written above or below the stave. They are counted from the staff up or down. The nearest ruler to the musical staff is considered the first, the second - following the first, etc. The spelling of stems and tails: notes that are written before the third line stems are written from the right up, and notes that are written on the third line and above the stems are written from the left and down. In a vocal two-voice work recorded on one musical staff, the first voice is recorded with the stems up, and the second voice with the stems down. Thus, thanks to the rules of musical notation, each vocal part is very well visually traced.

Some notes can be written in both treble and bass clef.

Notes in different keys

Note duration

The duration of a note is not associated with any absolute durations (eg second, etc.), it can only be represented in relation to the durations of other notes. Let's take a closer look at note lengths.

In music, there are basic and arbitrary durations. Main Duration sounds: whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and so on (obtained by dividing by 2 of each subsequent duration).