Grade 1: Notes and note-positions
If you look in a music book you might see something like this:
When music was first written down, in the 8th century BC, it looked something like this:
The horizontal lines are called a “stave”. There are usually five lines in a stave.
The position of the dots on the stave tell you what note they are, and also whether these notes are higher or lower than other notes.
In the example above, the second note is lower than the first. The third note is higher than the second. The fourth note is higher than the third, and the same as the first. The fifth note is higher than all the other notes.
Notes are given letter names. The common letter names of notes are: A, B, C, D, E, F and G. They can be written like this:
Can you identify what notes these are?
