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Everything you need to learn about music

The Staff

In Western musical notation, the staff or stave is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.

The Clefs

A clef is a musical symbol used to indicate which notes are represented by the lines and spaces on a musical stave. When a clef is placed on a stave it assigns a particular note to one of the five lines. This line becomes a reference point by which the names of the other notes on the stave are determined.

Key Signature

In Western musical notation, a key signature is a set of sharp, flat, or rarely, natural symbols placed on the staff at the beginning of a section of music. The initial key signature in a piece is placed immediately after the clef at the beginning of the first line. 

Time Signature

The time signature is a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats are contained in each measure, and which note value is equivalent to a beat.

Music Notes

In music, a note is a symbol denoting a musical sound. In English usage a note is also the sound itself. Notes can represent the pitch and duration of a sound in musical notation. A note can also represent a pitch class.

Multiple Choice

What is the key signature?

• The time signature is a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats are contained in each measure, and which note value is equivalent to a beat.

• It is same like the time signature

• The broccoli which you eat regularly after you use the bathroom

• The liquid which is basically Hydrochloric acid mixed with music sheets

Multiple Choice

When you play Happy Birthday on Bb scale, how many flats will be there for it's key signature?

• 5

• 2

• 3

• 1

Multiple Choice

Für Elise is on what scale?

• Am

• E

• Bm

• G#

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