Notes position
| The musical notes (piano white keys) in order are: |
C | D | E | F | G | A | B |
| The note vertical position indicates what note is on staffs. (we also include the letter). EasyMid use the treble clef symbol (G clef), that
means that the second line starting from the bottom on the staff is G. This is used for piano right hand.
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Note time duration
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On musical staffs there is a note graphic for a note duration.
In this picture, 1 is double longer than 2, and 2 it's double longer than 4....
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EasyMid mid use the horizontal distance for the note time duration. Also we'll use 3 graphics: 1 (entire), 2 (half) and the other
could be 4, 8 or 16. The distance to the next note will diference them. Look the distance of the notes two graphics up (G C D D#...)
Our ear and the reading bar will tell us the notes timing.
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If in the musical staff a note is up to the previous means that you must move to the right in the piano.
At the begining you will be slow, but with a little practice you will locate notes very fast.
You will learn music having fun.
Musical scales, intervals and Mathematics
The simplest music scale is C major, becuase it represents the piano white keys.
C-D-E-F-G-A-B. There are 12 major scales, because there are 12 piano keys(7 white+ 5 black) per octave.
For getting the D major scale you must count intervals from one note to the next one.
On C major, there are 2 intervals between C and D (C# - D) and only one between E and F (F).
To make D major scale you must apply the same intervals of C major:
D , E, F#, G, A, B, C#
Look at the online scale constructor. JavaScript tool
Music is mathematical, so if we assign a value to each note like:
C6=60, C#6 = 61, D6 = 62, D#6=63, E6=64 ....
And add a number to the each note on a song it will sound tha same song but with a different tone(flavor).
The song is not in the notes(frecuency) is on it's sequence(intervals). This is called Transpose.
One of the most annoying things for the beginner are the black keys
(# in green), but EasyMid can simplify the staff removing them (by staff transpose),
without sound modification, by retransposing output sound.
