Print out a blank sheet music book. Record and print sheet music on your computer

You don’t have a squared, lined, or oblique notebook at hand, but you really need it? No problem. You can always download the required lined sheet and print it. This page contains a collection of A4 formats that have a certain layout. If for any reason this or that sheet is not suitable for you, we will teach you how to make the necessary ruler in a matter of minutes.

Lined sheet of paper

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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 specified, and the left and right borders were hidden.

Leaf in a cage

Download a sheet template in A4 format

A lined checkered sheet may be needed in different cases:

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

It is clear that drawing the cells yourself takes a very long time, and as luck would have it, the notebooks were not at hand. No problem, just download and print a ready-made A4 sheet lined in a 5 x 5 mm square. Need a cage of other sizes? 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.

Music sheet A4 with and without treble clef

Download blank sheet music	Sheet music and treble clef

You can always buy blank sheet music, but you can also print it yourself. These templates, which can be downloaded for free, are great for this purpose.

Graph paper A4

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If you want to learn to play any instrument, then you just need to study musical notation. Many beginning musicians neglect to study musical notation, but sooner or later they realize that without it, progress will be extremely slow. But the time spent studying it will bring you enormous 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 things for you interesting material, which is simply impossible to study without knowledge of musical notation.

So, musical composition consists of sounds. To designate sounds, special graphic signs are used - notes, as well as the staff. They allow you to conveniently show the order, duration, pitch and other characteristics of sounds.

The note (Latin nota - sign) consists of an oval [3 in Fig. ] (empty inside or shaded), to which a calm and a flag can be added [ 1 in Fig. ] or checkboxes.

Components of notes

Arrangement of notes on the staff. Notes can be written on lines, under lines, and on lines. If necessary, notes can be placed on additional lines above and below stave. For a more compact recording, the stems are drawn like this: if the note is located below the center line, then the stem is drawn at the top, and if the note is located above the center line of the staff, then the stem is directed down and drawn to the left of the note. These rules are not required to be followed, they are just recommendations. Sometimes notes are grouped together in violation of 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 additional lines are drawn at the top or bottom. In the example, there are 5 main lines below, 2 additional lines on top (they are drawn only directly below the notes), and one additional line below.

Notes on a stave

To determine the pitch of notes, so-called keys are used.

Key (Italian chiave, from Latin clavis; German Schlüssel; English key) - sign linear notation, which determines the pitch value of notes. Relative to the staff line, which is pointed to by the central element of the clef, all other pitch positions of notes are calculated. The main types of clefs adopted in the classical five-line bar notation are the “g” clef, the “fa” clef and the “do” clef.

In the picture above, a treble clef (G clef) is used, which starts from the second line, where the note “G” of the first octave is written.

The treble clef is the most common clef. The treble clef places the "G" of the first octave on the second line of the staff. The treble clef is used to write notes for the violin (hence the name), guitar, harmonica, most woodwind instruments, parts of brass instruments, percussion instruments with a certain pitch and other instruments with a sufficiently high sound. For parties right hand When playing the piano, the treble clef is also most often used. Women's vocal parts today they are also recorded in treble clef (although in past centuries a special clef was used to record them). The tenor parts are also written in treble clef, but are performed an octave lower than what is written, which is indicated by an eight under the clef. The "F" clef is the second most common clef after the treble clef. Places the F of the minor octave on the fourth line of the staff. This clef is used by low-sounding instruments: cello, bassoon, etc. The left hand part for piano is usually written in the bass clef. Vocal music for bass and baritone it is also usually written in the bass clef.

From the sounds salt first octave (in treble clef) and F the small octave (in the bass clef) records other sounds up and down.

The higher the notes are on the staff, the higher their sound. There are approximately 80 keys on a piano and the same number of sounds, and the staff has only 5 lines, so additional lines, different keys, and several staffs are used to write notes in musical notation. Additional rulers are short rulers for each individual note that are written above or below the staff. They are counted from the staff up or down. The ruler closest to the staff is considered the first, the second is the one next to the first, etc. Spelling of stems and tails: notes that are written before the third line of stems are written from the right up, and notes that are written on the third line and above the stems are written to the left and down. In a two-voice vocal work recorded on one staff, the first voice is written 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 visually traceable.

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

Notes in different keys

Note duration

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

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

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

Method one Manual recording

An excellent service of all kinds of templates that are available for download, generatedpaper.com I’ve already talked about it. So here there is a wonderful section for musicians, there is also just a notebook, but download the forms for writing chords in PDF format and print them out.

Method two MuseScore program

A popular program with rich functionality for working with musical notation, it also supports MIDI files. You can listen to the result immediately. Instructions for working with the program and all 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. And several video lessons 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 the rich selection of applications, there is also room for musicians who can create compositions by recording works in sheet music, without resorting to the help of programs. Flat, the beauty of the app's material design and its capabilities rival those of professional programs and, to be honest, simply amazed me. Everything is absolutely clear, despite the fact that there is no Russian language, unfortunately. One-click installation, registration through your Google or Facebook account, and you have access to a world of creativity and a community of musicians around the world. You can share music or listen to works by other authors. You can use the application, or simply 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 convenient, and paid, although not exactly cheap, makes this wonderful service even for professionals.

Notation is a unique 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 complicated as it might seem.

Every musical sound is determined by four physical properties:

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

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

Pitch (sound pitch)

All musical sounds are arranged in unified system – scale. This is a series in which all sounds follow each other in order, from the lowest to the highest. high 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 look at a 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 just one note “C”). Below, to the left of the first octave, there is a small octave, a large octave, a contra-octave and a sub-contra-octave (consisting of the white keys A and B).

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

If the stem of a note is directed upward, 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 the notes should be directed upward, and starting from the 3rd line, downward.

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

Musical key is a reference point that indicates the position of a note from a particular certain height. 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. Music notation is more compact, and notes are easier to read when most of the notes are on the main lines of the staff, without additional lines above and below, so there are many musical keys. Despite the fact that the combined sound range of various voices and musical instruments is about 8 octaves, the range of an individual voice or musical instrument usually much narrower, as reflected in the names of the musical clefs: soprano - for the soprano register, alto - for the alto register, tenor - for the tenor, bass - for the bass (abbreviated SATB).

Musical keys can be divided into 3 groups:

Key “Salt”– indicates the location of the note “G” of the first octave. This key came from Latin letter G, which stands for the note “Salt”. The “Salt” clefs include the Treble and Old French clefs, they look like this.

Key “Fa”– indicates the location of the note “F” of the small octave. The key to the Latin letter F came from (two dots are two crossbars of the letter F). These include Bass clef, Bassoprofundo and Baritone keys. They look like this.

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

The following picture shows various music keys

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

There are also neutral keys for drum parts and guitar parts (the 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 a separate line, a separate staff. The entire score is first united by a solid vertical starting line, and the staves of several parts or groups of instruments are united by a special bracket - accolade.

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

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 points nearby between the staff lines ( signs reprises), then this indicates that the entire work or some section needs to be repeated.

May occur in notes dotted lines with a figure eight (octave transfer signs). They mean that everything within the range of these lines must be played an octave higher or lower. These octave marks are needed to simplify the reading of very high/low notes, which require many additional rulers to write.

The main musical levels 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, three, two, three. Under any such group, on the left, there is the note “C” and then there are other notes.

There are also derivatives steps(modified fundamental), 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 a piano keyboard. Most often it will be a black key on the right or left. Modified steps are of two types:

• Sharp is an increase by a semitone.
• Flat – lowered by a semitone.

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

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

There can be two types of alterations in notes:

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

Key signs are displayed strictly in a certain order:

The order of sharps is FA DO sol re la mi si

The order of the flats is B MI A A D SOL DO F

Duration

Note durations relate to the realm of rhythm and musical time. Music time special, it flows in even shares and is comparable, rather, to the beating of the heart. Usually one such beat is associated with a quarter note. Notes can contain at least two types of musical durations: even and odd, and not only notes have durations, 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 basis for division is taken to be a whole note, which is usually calculated when playing (we count mentally or out loud to 4) into 4 beats. Identical “tailed” eighth or sixteenth notes are often combined into groups under one edge.

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

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

There are three ways to extend notes and rests:

Dotted rhythm(dotted note) is a dotted rhythm. Dots are placed to the right of the note or rest icon and lengthen the sound by exactly 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 can also be a note with two dots: the first dot extends its duration by half, and the second dot extends its duration by another 1/4, i.e. such a note is extended by 3/4 of its duration.

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

Uniting league– connects two or more notes that are at the same pitch and follow each other. Notes under the league are not repeated, but are combined into one duration. By the way, breaks are not combined into leagues.

Musical time is very well organized; in its organization, in addition to beats, larger units - measures - are involved. Tact- this is a segment from one strong beat to the next, it contains an exactly specified number of beats. Measures 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 the numerical size, which is indicated immediately after the key characters at the beginning of the work. Size is expressed using two numbers placed one above the other, as if in the form of a fraction.

The meter 4/4 (four quarters) means that there are four beats in a measure, each of the beats is equal in duration to a quarter note. One thing to remember is that these quarter notes can be broken down into eighths or sixteenths, or combined into half notes or a whole note. The meter 3/8 (three eighth notes) means that it can also accommodate three eighth notes, which can be divided into sixteenth notes or combined into larger notes. For beginners musical notation usually operates with simple time signatures of 2/4, 3/4, etc.

The movement of the lobes can be fast or slow. The speed of movement of beats (performance of a piece) is called pace works. Tempo is most often indicated Italian word and placed under the size in notes. Also, next to the tempo, a metronome indication can be placed: quarter note = numeric value. This means that the tempo of a given piece is the “numerical value” of beats (beats) per minute. A metronome is a pendulum with a weight and a scale; it shows the exact number of beats per minute and looks like this.

The rates may be as follows:

• Slow
  • Grave – hard, important, very slow
  • Largo – wide, very slow
  • Adagio – slowly, calmly
  • Lento – slow, quiet
• Moderate
  • Andante – calm, walking pace
  • Moderato - moderate
• Fast
  • Allegro – soon, fun
  • Vivo – lively
  • Vivace - lively
  • Presto - fast

Volume

Volume is one of the most important properties musical sound. Volume is indicated in the notes in spaces between staves by the following words or symbols 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 placed in notes, meaning that you need to gradually increase or decrease the volume.

A widening fork means crescendo, and a narrowing fork means diminuendo.

Timbre

Timbre is the color of sound. Timbre distinguishes sounds of the same pitch and volume, performed on different instruments, by different voices or on the same instrument, but different ways. With the help of timbre, you can highlight one or another component of the musical whole, strengthen or weaken contrasts.

Sheet music usually contains various indications about the timbre of sounds: the name of the instrument or voice for which it is intended this work, turning on and off the pedals on the piano, techniques for producing sound (harmonics on the violin).

If there is a vertical wavy line before the chords in the musical notation, this means that the sounds of the chord should not be played simultaneously, but arpeggiato, as if broken up, plucked, as it would sound on a harp or harp.

Under the bass staff may occur beautiful inscription Ped. and an asterisk - they indicate the moment the pedal is turned on and off on the piano.

In addition to these technical elements, the notes may contain many composer, verbal, and indications of the nature of the performance, for example:

• Appassionato - passionately
• Cantabile - melodiously
• Dolce - tenderly
• Lacrimoso - tearful
• Mesto - sad
• Risoluto - decisively
• Secco - dry
• Semplice - simple
• Tranquillo - calm
• Sotto voce - in a low voice

Another one of important elements V musical text are the strokes. Hatch- this is an indication of a specific method of sound production, a method of articulation that greatly influences general character performance of the work. There are many strokes, they differ between violinists and pianists. Three universal strokes:

• non legato – disjointed performance
• legato – smooth, coherent playing
• staccato – abrupt, short performance