The First thing you do when you learn how to read music is to know that notes have alphabet names. These are placed on a Stave. The Stave is a group of five lines where each of the lines and spaces denotes a note.
There are two sets of lines where the top five lines give the higher notes and the bottom lines give the notes in the lower registration. The higher registration notes are indicated with the Treble Clef and the lower registration notes are indicated with a Bass Clef.
Learning the names of the notes are simple, because they are called (starting with Middle C), D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D and E. From C to C is usually called your octave.
Notes on the ledger lines of the Stave spell out the word F, A, C, E and it is that easy to learn. An acronym for the in between lines are Every, Good, Boy, Deserves, Food. Below or above the lines you simply add strokes through the note (as in Middle C) and above or below.
The next step is to learn that there are different types of notes with different values. The values and types of notes will make up what is called a measure. This is indicated next to the clef and is called the Time Signature. The Time Signature is indicated in the form of a fraction without the line through. An example would be 4/4 time.
The note with the longest beat is the whole note which has four beats. It is followed by the half note with two beats and the quarter note with one beat. Then there are also the eighth notes and sixteenth note.
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