Of course, the best place to start your acquaintance with sheet music is with a musical literacy textbook. However, if you do not have time for a deep study of the basics of musical notation, then a minimum set of practical knowledge will help you to get started.
Instructions
Step 1
There are seven notes in total: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la and si. However, there are many more sounds, so where one sequence of seven notes (octave) ends, another immediately begins. For example, after B, the first octave is followed by up to the second octave.
Step 2
The notes are placed on the staff (staff), which consists of five rulers. On the left there is always a key sign, most often a violin or bass. The treble clef indicates that the note on the second ruler (the rulers are counted from the bottom) is the salt of the first octave. The bass clef reports that the note on the fourth ruler is a minor octave F.
Step 3
Other notes are located relative to the key ones as follows: in the treble clef, under the second ruler, the F of the first octave is located, below it - on the first ruler - E, even lower - D, and on the first additional ruler (a short line under the lower ruler) - C. Above the second ruler is a, above it - on the third ruler - si, and above the third ruler - up to the second octave, etc. The location of the notes in the bass clef is calculated in a similar way.
Step 4
The color and shape of the note icon indicates its duration. The light circle denotes the so-called whole note - the note with the longest duration. A light circle with a vertical stick is a half note, it is half as long as a whole one. The dark circle with a vertical stick is a quarter note, half as long as the half. If one "tail" appears on a vertical stick, you have an eighth note in front of you. Its duration is half the length of a quarter, or 1/8 of a whole. Two "ponytails" on a vertical stick - the sixteenth note. It is half the length of the eighth.
Step 5
This elementary knowledge is enough to play the simplest pieces of music. However, for more in-depth music lessons, you will need knowledge of special signs (flat, sharp and bekar), as well as the designations of pauses of different lengths. This and other information can be obtained from the practical guide to musical notation by G. Fridkin or from any other textbook for novice musicians.
