Before we memorize notes, we need to get acquainted with some musical terms, namely, what is a staff (staff), treble and bass clefs, and a note.
A musical staff (or stave) is a set of horizontal stripes (rulers) on which notes are located. There are 5 main stripes, but there may also be extension lines that can be located above and below the main stripes. Notes are located both on the rulers and between them.
There are only 7 notes: DO, RE, MI, FA, SO, A, SI.
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All notes are always repeated, but at different pitches, forming octaves.
Music staff with notes for children
Piano keyboard with notes for children
For ease of perception, we have applied special stickers to the keyboard keys. In this example, 3 octaves are displayed - this is enough to start getting acquainted and play your first works. Instructions and the stickers themselves can be taken from this article.
A little theory
At the beginning of the musical stripes there is always a key - a special symbol that determines the pitch value of all the rulers. There are two clefs: treble and bass. Why are two keys needed? The piano is usually played with two hands, with the right hand playing the treble clef and the left hand playing the bass clef. The staves are displayed together.
You can write notes in any key. However, recording high notes in the bass will be extremely inconvenient, since you will need a large number of additional rulers. Essentially, the note lines of the bass clef are an extension of the very low notes of the treble clef.
In home and school music lessons with children, a variety of preparations are needed. On this page we have prepared for you materials that you simply need to have on hand if you work with kids.
Notes on a stave
The first blank is a small poster depicting the main and bass clefs (first and minor octave). Now in the picture you see a miniature - a reduced image of this poster; just below is a link to download it in its original size (A4 format).
POSTER “NAME OF NOTES ON THE STAFF” –
Pictures with note names
The second blank is needed when the child first gets acquainted with notes, precisely to work out the name of each of the sounds. It consists of cards with the actual name of the notes and with an image of an object in whose name the syllabic name of the note appears.
The artistic associations chosen here are the most traditional. For example, for the note DO, a drawing of a house is chosen, for RE - a turnip from a famous fairy tale, for MI - a toy bear. Next to the note FA is a torch, with SALT is ordinary table salt in a bag. For the sound LA, a picture of a frog was selected, for SI - a lilac branch.
Example card
PICTURES WITH NOTE NAMES –
Above is a link where you can go to the full version of the manual and save it to your computer or phone. Please note that all files are provided in pdf format. To read these files, use the program or phone app Adobe Reader (free) or any other application that allows you to open and view these types of files.
Musical ABC
Music alphabet is another type of manual that is used in working with beginners (mainly with children from 3 to 7-8 years old). In musical alphabet, in addition to pictures, words, poems, and note names, there are also images of notes on the staff. We are pleased to offer you two options for such manuals, and you can read more about them and how you can make such alphabet books with your own hands or even with the hands of a child.
NOTE ABC No. 1 –
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Music cards
Such cards are actively used during the period when the child thoroughly studies the notes of the violin and especially. They no longer have pictures, their role is to help remember the location of notes and quickly recognize them. In addition, they can be used for some creative tasks, solving puzzles, etc.
NOTE CARDS –
Dear friends! And now we offer you a little musical humor. The performance of J. Haydn's "Children's Symphony" by the Moscow Virtuosi orchestra turned out to be surprisingly funny. Let's admire together the respected musicians who have picked up children's musical and noise instruments.
Imagine the bright colors of nature! The red color of the sky at sunset. Orange color of orange orchards. Yellow tulips. Greenery of coniferous forests. The height of the blue sky. Reflection of the mountains in the blue of the lake. A gentle cloud of purple lilac bushes.
Colored notes for kids
And the musical signs are monotonous black. How to teach a child notes if the sight of these icons does not arouse any interest at all? You just need to add a little magic! Why not make them colorful?! Today the musical fairy of the House of Music will tell you how musical signs and colors are connected, as well as how to quickly learn notes.
To better understand music and learn to sing, you need to understand how it works. Well, for this you should get acquainted with the basics of the language of music - with notes. This means that it would be good for both children and adults to first learn the names of the notes on the staff. But let's first touch a little on the history of musical signs.
Symbols for recording music were invented in the 11th century. At first the notes were square and there were only 4 lines. But then the image of the notes changed. Starting from the 18th century, they began to draw notes in the form of oval icons on a staff of 5 lines. You can read more about the history of the appearance of notes in our article “”.
Why is it better to use colored notes for babies? If you've paid attention to how sheet music is written, you know that they usually have a boring black and white appearance. When learning to read music, it is not easy for kids to perceive a schematic representation of sounds on rulers. And the color of the notes can make this task easier. Therefore, a special technique was created for young children.
How does this multi-colored technique work?
There are several channels of information perception, and the visual channel is one of the most powerful. Therefore, when colored notes are used, it is easier for kids to understand the principle of schematic notation of notes and learn them faster.
What color are the notes?
The world of musical sounds is magical! The bright colors of the rainbow worked hard, and the notes became colorful! Let's see what colors correspond to each note:
Before - red;
re - orange;
mi - yellow;
fa - green;
salt - blue;
la - blue;
si - violet.
Seven notes - seven colors. Does this remind you of anything? Yes, of course - these are notes based on the colors of the rainbow!
Who came up with the idea of combining music and color?
To be honest, I did not find exact information about the author who came up with the method of colored notes for teaching children. Many take credit for this wonderful invention. But it is known that since ancient times there have been musicians with so-called colored hearing. They saw, or rather felt, certain colors when different keys and chords were played.
Who combined colors and music? There is information that composer Alexander Scriabin was the first to arrange notes according to the color spectrum. Seven notes - seven colors of the rainbow. Everything ingenious is simple! Gradually, colored notes began to be used to teach musical literacy to children around the world.
Using the right hemisphere of the brain when learning notes
Matching notes to the colors of the rainbow is used in many countries to teach children music. When using this method, the associative way of perceiving information is activated, and boring musical notation turns into an exciting color game. What does the right hemisphere of the brain have to do with it? The fact is that it is the right hemisphere that is responsible for imagination, intuition and creativity. When colored notes are used when teaching a child, the right hemisphere is actively working. As a result, the baby simply remembers or even sees the color before his eyes, and not a schematic image of a musical note.
Learning notes with children using colors
There are several different options for recording colored notes. The simplest is the usual recording of notes on a stave, just instead of black notes, colored notes are used.
But there are other options. For example, they use only color fields: vertical or horizontal, without rulers. Look at what an unusual musical staff with machines we made with the participants of the House of Music!
There is also a technique in which the recording is made in a schematic form using colored circles that are on the same line or connected into patterns.
How convenient and correct is this? It’s difficult to judge, but personally, I prefer the option of game color recording, but still on the usual 5 lines.
Colored keyboard to help a young musician
The color notes technique is used not only for learning the basics of musical notation, but also for teaching kids to play the piano. There are a lot of keys on the keyboard, and all of them are only black and white. How to find the right note? Help your child and show the location of the notes on the piano using colors. To do this, take strips of the seven colors of the rainbow and stick them on the keys, starting with the note “C” of the first octave.
This method helps you quickly learn the placement of notes on the piano. This technique also helps to use different types of memory and makes the learning process as visual as possible. And the colored keys look much more fun and attractive to the baby.
Colored notes for babies: what are their advantages
And one more important point that I would like to draw your attention to. When we study notes with kids in a playful way, using fairy-tale images, designating notes with colors, we actively develop the right hemisphere of the brain, which is responsible for imagination, creativity, intuition and creative abilities.
Games with colored notes allow you to use the associative way of perceiving information. As a result, the baby simply remembers or even sees the color before his eyes, and not a schematic image of a musical note.
Colored notes are not only a way to master musical notation, they are an effective and interesting way to develop a child’s intelligence!
But what to do next? How to play with colored notes?
Based on this technique, I came up with characters - a family of musical notes. These are grandfather DO, grandmother RE, mother MI-MI, father FA, girl SOL, boy LA and dog SI-SI. Together with the heroes in fun musical games, the child gets acquainted with the wonderful world of music.
We invite you to listen right now to a song about how brave kittens saved the music house from impudent mice! And at the same time play musical and mathematical games. Follow the link below, enter your email in the form - and in a few minutes the games and song will be sent to your email.
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. This is a 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 |
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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
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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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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 musical notations: print out a music book and, in the tradition of the old masters, do it by hand, repeating the beautiful curves of the 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.
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, the browser becomes the main tool, and, in my opinion, google chrome is the 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 capabilities rival those of professional programs and, to be honest, just blew me away. 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 the paid, although not exactly cheap, makes this wonderful service even for professionals.