Stick to Staff Notation with Solfege

Stick to Staff Notation with Solfege

Putting stick notation on a 5 line staff

Multiple Choice

Which image shows stick notation?

Multiple Choice

What is a musical staff?

• A group of employees

• Steady beat

• What a shepherd uses to guide sheep

• 5 lines and 4 spaces for music notes

Stick notation

• 'sticks' to represent rhythm

• solfege letters under the sticks

• a quick way to write music

• great for transcribing folk songs

Staff notation

• commonly used by trained musicians

• widely understood

• has both note heads and stems

• gives more detail to the musician

Multiple Choice

Which image shows notes in steps on the staff?

How do notes go in steps on a staff?

• Line

• Space

• Line

• Space

• Line

• Space

• ...

What about skips?

• Line Line

• Space space

• Line to far away space

• Space to far away line

Skip

all spaces

Skip

all lines

Skips

BIG skips

Open Ended

How can we transfer stick notation to the staff?

First steps

• 1. Write the solfege below the staff.

• 2. Put noteheads where the notes should go.

Multiple Choice

How do notes go in steps on a staff?

• Line space line space line space ...

• Line Line Line Line

• Space Space Space Space

Next Steps

• 3. Add stems to the noteheads.

• 4. Stems match the stick notation.

• 5. Ta-dis might have a slanted bridge

• 6. Some stems will go up, others down

Stems

• Some go up

• Some go down

• It depends on how high or low the note is on the staff

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Let's do it

• volunteer: pick a folksong from https://folkcloud.com/

• 1. write the stick notation on the board

• 2. put it on the staff