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Here's a sample of one octave of notes on a keyboard.
Pitch:
The pitch of a music note is a frequency of that
note a tone generated
in
cycles per second or hertz - "Hz". Different frequencies are defined
for every
note.
When notes sound the same but have higher or lower
tone that is
known as a pitch class. Therefore, you use the same name to define the
note but you have a different frequency.
This is not an easy concept to explain in just a
sentence or two, so
for
a complete definition of pitch go to wikipedia.com Pitch.
Symbols and Time Value:
Notes will have a time value associated with them. A quarter note,
shown here. is the value assigned or the beat count is
dependent upon the time signature. If that time is a quarter note = 1
beat, then it is easy to see that it gets a time value of 1 beat.
The time values and names are more fully explored in our
definitions section.
So there is just a quick introduction to basic music theory notes. To
explore in detail the music notes values and names visit these
pages in the rhythm section:
Notes on the Staff:
This section of our lessons focus only on names,
we have to put these
names on a staff so you can read notes when you play. That is done with
the master staff
lessons.
Peferred Partner Resource
If you would like a few additional resources to
practice your note
naming skills after starting the Master Staff Series, then head over to
MakingMusicFun.net. This music education website features free printable note name worksheets
and a note name arcade game.
Intervals
It
is important to point out intervals for music notes. That is
the relationship between two notes. Commonly these might be referred to
as a third, a fifth, or eleventh. You can can more insight to intervals
and relationships on the interval
page.
There are other rules
we will explore in detail in other lessons associated with music theory
notes.
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