Before we memorize notes, we need to get acquainted with some musical terms, namely, what is a stave (stave), treble and bass clef, note.
A musical staff (or staff) is a set of horizontal strips (rulers) on which notes are located. There are 5 main bands, but there may be extension lines that can be located above and below the main bands. Notes are located both on the rulers and between them.
There are only 7 notes: DO, RE, MI, FA, SOL, LA, SI.
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All notes are always repeated, but at different heights, forming octaves.
Music staff with notes for children
Piano keyboard with notes for kids
For ease of perception, we put special stickers on the keyboard keys. In this example, 3 octaves are displayed - this is enough to start acquaintance and play your first works. Instructions and the stickers themselves can be taken from this article.
A bit of theory
At the beginning of musical strips there is always a key - a special symbol that determines the pitch value of all rulers. There are two clefs: treble and bass. What are two keys for? The piano is played, as a rule, in two hands, while the right hand plays in the treble clef, and the left in the bass. The staves are displayed together.
Notes can be written in any key. However, recording high notes in the bass will be extremely inconvenient, since a large number of additional lines will be needed. Essentially, the bass clef's musical lines are extensions 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 such materials that you just need to have on hand if you are working with kids.
Notes on the stave
The first blank is a small poster depicting the main and bass clefs (the first and small octaves). Now in the figure you see a miniature - a reduced image of this poster, just below is a link to download it in its original size (A4 format).
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Pictures with note names
The second blank is needed when the child first meets the notes, precisely to work out the name of each of the sounds. It consists of cards with the name of the notes themselves and with the image of the object in whose name the syllabic name of the note occurs.
Artistic associations here are selected the most traditional ones. For example, for the note DO, a drawing of a house is chosen, for PE - a turnip from a famous fairy tale, for MI - a teddy bear. Next to the note FA - a torch, with SALT - ordinary table salt in a bag. For sound LA, a picture of a frog was selected, for SI - lilac branches.
Card example
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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 in pdf format. To read these files, use the Adobe Reader (free) phone program or application, or any other application that allows you to open and view these types of files.
Musical alphabet
Musical alphabets are another kind of manuals that are used when working with beginners (mainly with children from 3 to 7-8 years old). In musical alphabets, in addition to pictures, words, poems, note names, there are also images of notes on the stave. We are pleased to offer you two whole options for such benefits, and you can read more about them and how you can make such alphabets with your own hands or even the hands of a child.
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Music cards
Such cards are actively used during the period when the child is thoroughly studying the notes of the violin and especially. They are already without pictures, their role is to help remember the location of the notes and quickly recognize them. In addition, they can be used for some creative tasks, solving puzzles, etc.
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Dear friends! And now we offer you some musical humor. Surprisingly funny was the performance of Haydn's Children's Symphony by the Moscow Virtuosi orchestra. Let's admire together the respected musicians who took children's musical and noise instruments in their hands.
Sometimes it becomes necessary to print a pre-lined sheet for various occasions. For example, to pass the time playing tic-tac-toe, you need a checkered sheet, what to do if it is not at hand. You can draw it yourself on a ruler, but it's easier to print on a printer. All you need is a template. On this page you can download and print a checkered sheet, a lined sheet or a music sheet.
Checkered sheet print and download
A checkered sheet can be useful for children to solve a math problem, and sometimes even for adults for various board games, such as sea battle, tic-tac-toe or dots. Making your own sheet in a box in Word is not difficult at all, create a table measuring 37 by 56 cells. It will turn out an even cell, as in a notebook in a box.
You can print or download the A4 checkered sheet in PDF format. If you need to change a cell, for example, its size or color, for example, in order to print a sheet not with a black, but with a gray or light gray cell, then below is a link to a sheet in a cell in Word format.
Lined sheet print and download
You can download or print a lined A4 sheet. The sheet is lined in a large ruler with margins like in a notebook. You can use a lined sheet for penmanship. On our website you can find an online copybook generator for children.
You can print or download the lined sheet on A4 paper using the PDF file. If you need to change the distance between the rulers or remove the margins, then below is a link to the sheet in the ruler in Word format.
Music sheet print and download
To record notes in music schools, special note books are used. The musical staff consists of five lines on which notes are applied. You can print a lined A4 music sheet. The music sheet is presented in two versions, empty - only lines and with a treble clef already printed. In order to print an A4 music sheet, you can use the PDF files below. You can download the music sheet by saving the PDF file to your computer.
Imagine the vibrant colors of nature! The red color of the sky at sunset. Orange color of orange orchards. Yellow tulips. Green coniferous forests. The height of the blue sky. Reflection of the mountains in the blue of the lake. Delicate cloud of purple lilac bushes.
Colored notes for kids
And the musical signs are monotonous black. How to teach a child about notes if the appearance of these icons does not cause any interest at all? Just need to add some magic! Why not make them colorful?! About how musical signs and color are connected, as well as how to quickly learn notes - today the musical fairy of the House of Music will tell you.
To better understand music, learn to sing, you need to understand how it works. Well, for this it is worth getting acquainted with the basics of the language of music - with notes. This means that it would be good for both children and adults to start by learning the name of the notes on the stave. But first, let's touch on the history of musical signs a little.
Symbols for recording music were invented in the 11th century. At first, the notes were square, and there were only 4 rulers. 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 stave 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 toddlers? If you've paid attention to how notes are written, you know that they usually have a boring black and white look. When studying musical literacy, it is not easy for kids to perceive the schematic representation of sounds on the 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 for perceiving information, and the visual channel is one of the strongest. 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 is the note
The world of musical sounds is magical! The bright colors of the rainbow did their best, and the notes became colored! 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. Doesn't this remind you of anything? Yes, of course - these are notes for the colors of the rainbow!
Who came up with the idea to combine music and color
To be honest, I did not find exact data about the author who came up with the method of colored notes for teaching children. Many people take credit for this wonderful invention. But it is known that since ancient times there were musicians with the so-called color hearing. They saw or, more correctly, felt certain colors when sounding different keys and chords.
Who combined colors and music? There is evidence that the 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.
Engaging the Right Hemisphere of the Brain in Learning Music
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 turned on, and boring musical notation turns into an exciting color game. What about the right hemisphere of the brain? The fact is that it is the right hemisphere that is responsible for imagination, intuition and creativity. When colored notes are used in teaching a child, it is the right hemisphere that is actively working. As a result, the baby simply remembers or even sees a color before his eyes, and not a schematic representation of a musical sign.
Learning music notes with children using colors
There are several different ways to write color notes. The simplest is the usual recording of notes on a stave, just instead of black notes, color ones are used.
But there are other options as well. For example, only color fields are used: vertical or horizontal, without rulers. Look what an unusual stave with typewriters we made with the members of the House of Music!
And there is also a technique in which the recording is in a schematic form using colored circles that are on the same line or are connected into patterns.
How convenient and correct is this? It's hard to judge, but I personally prefer the game color recording option, but still on the usual 5 lines.
Colored keyboard to help the young musician
The technique of colored notes 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 the child and show the location of the notes on the piano with the help of flowers. To do this, take strips of seven colors of the rainbow and stick them on the keys, starting from the note “to” of the first octave.
This method helps you quickly learn the location of the notes on the piano. Also, this technique helps to use different types of memory and makes the learning process as clear as possible. Yes, and the colored keys look much more fun and attractive for the baby.
Colored notes for kids: what are their advantages
And one more important point to which I would like to draw your attention. When we learn music notes with kids in a playful way, using fairy tale images, marking 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 a color before his eyes, and not a schematic representation of a musical sign.
Colored notes are not only a way to learn musical notation, it is 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 heroes - a musical family. This is grandfather DO, grandmother RE, mother MI-MI, father FA, girl SOL, boy LA and dog SI-SI. Together with the heroes in funny musical games, the child gets acquainted with the wonderful world of music.
We invite you to listen to a song right now 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 the song will come to your mail.
I asked myself the question, how can I write and then print notes on a computer? Of course, I am not a musician and I understand little in musical notation, so my research was reduced only to the practical part, namely, not to professional paid programs, but to accessible and, I hope, understandable for most beginners or students. There are three ways to make musical notes: 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. These methods will be discussed separately.
An excellent service of all kinds of templates that are available for download, generatedpaper.com I already wrote about it. So here there is a wonderful section for musicians, there is also just a music notebook, but download the forms for recording chords in PDF format and print them out.
Method two MuseScore program
A popular program with rich functionality for working with a musical staff, there is also support for MIDI files. You can listen to the result right away. Instructions for working with the program and all the 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. A few video tutorials 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 is the best representative. In a rich selection of applications, there was also a place for musicians who can create compositions by recording works in notes without resorting to programs. Flat , the beauty of the material design of the application and its capabilities can compete with professional programs and, frankly, I just admired. 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 of other authors. You can use the app, or just 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 comfortable, and paid, although not quite cheap, makes this wonderful service for professionals at all.
