MUSIC Notation + Recording Digitally
MUSIC & SOUND
By Director Edward Jeffries
EJs FilmsTM ©
Questions

Your Answer:

Mark 10/10

1. What is Music.

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2. What is a Treble Clef and a Bass Clef?

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3.  Demonstrate The Treble clef Music Alphabet.

.3 C, __, __, __, __, __, __, __, __.

 

 

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4. Draw a Minim and a Semiquaver.

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5. Using this information if you’re in Bass Clef and you were on G how many notes lower is it from C and G?

5.G to C=

G to G=

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                                                      What is Music & Sound
Sound is a series of vibration waves that moves through air or other materials. These sound waves are created by the vibration of object.
The back-and-forth vibration of an object forms the waves of sound. The motions of a loudspeaker cone, drumhead and guitar string are
good examples of vibration that cause compression waves. A song is used to give a feeling that could be good or bad. The Music doesn’t have to
make sense as long as the Music is appealing to the audience.
 
                                                                   Appealing music
Appealing music must have a hook that grabs the audience – Something that’s cache.
Usually in the first ten seconds you have already decided if you want to hear more or play another song.
Remember were all different and we like different things!
 
                                                                    Music Alphabet
This is the music Alphabet:
TREBLE CLEF:
<…C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D…>
BASS CLEF:
<…G, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E, F, G …>
 
The difference between The Alphabet ABC and music Alphabet is the way it changes and goes on for ever there is no end.
 
                                                                   Music Notations
A lot of people see Notation as a page with lines and dots with little tails and don’t know and understand what they mean well this is what it all means.
This is the Basic Notation step’s to become a music writer and reader!
 
                                                                The “Staff/Stave” 
 
 
                                                         This is a “Treble Clef” 
 
 
                            Notes on a Stave/Bar line “Treble Clef”
 This shows the letter’s on the Stave starting with C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E and F as seen down bellow. 
 
See down below how the note gets higher a line and a space are left.
If you were to have only an E you must have 3 spaces and 2 lines and on the 3rd Line you place your note.
                                                                                                                                               G  - A - B
This is a sample of what this means:                                                                                     Space-line-space 
 
                                                          This is a “Bass Clef”
 
                               Notes on a Stave/Bar line “Bass Clef”
 
 
                     To end a piece of music in tablature use this:

 

         “BAR LINES” FOR THE NEXT SET OF NOTES
                                                                      Beats In a Bar
The beats in a bar are displayed like this
 So that means you can   only have 4 Beats in
  a bar and a bar is made up of 4 beats.
 
 

 

 

                                                                          The Notes
          Names and Representations & Value + Rests!
Most Rests lay on the middle bar line and not played for that  beat!
 
                                                                 Sharps and Flats
A sharp is half a note higher and
a flat is Half a note lower.  
                                                                            Recording
                                                                Digital Recording
These days we record with computers but the first Recording devices were real-to-real tape and records!
But these days any one with a good computer can record music with a mike.
The same applies for electric Keyboards and guitars but a special adapter for the Jacks might be needed.
The auxiliary or Mike in socket on the back of the computer will help to input sound and then all you need is the right program like Sound Forge/Sonic foundry, Cool Edit pro or another sound recorded program that will record sound but make sore the volume is low because you don’t want to over power the input or recording volume.
 
                                                            Recording Settings
 
Set your Sample rate to 44,100Hz
Bit-depth: 16,bit stereo
Make certain its stereo two channels or you will record the one channel, which is called Mono-one channel.
 
                                                             Recording Formats
 
WAVE- Normal computer Recorded format and can be burnt as a sound track- Audio Track file.
This is not fully compressed and can take up room on hard drive space.
 
MP3- Compressed and can only be played on an MP3 player or computer.
This format can save room on your Hard drive but you need to run a burning program to change the format to an Audio Track and once done it can be played on most CD players. It must become an “Audio File” or it won’t play on normal CD players!
MP3’s can be played on compatible DVD players and the computer plus MP3 portable players.
 
MIDI- This format only saves the scripture of songs and is usually used in writhing music. Can only be played by a computer or Electronic Midi input/output Keyboard/instruments.
 
WMA- This is a windows format and can only be played by a WMA player or Computer.
The files are well compress but loss of quality might occur!
 
Be careful because the higher the Compression the less quality you’ll get but don’t worry about small amounts of compression but if you notice that the quality has dropped then that might have been your problem.
 
                                                                      Music Themes
Just like movies music has it themes and different Styles here is a small list of them.
Contrary Ballard.
Love Ballard
Pop
Pop and Rock
Jazz
60’s, 70’s, 80’s 90’s styles
Slow and Easy
Disco
Disco Rock
Rock’en roll
Hip
Funk
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Author: Director Edward Jeffries
EJs FilmsTM
© March 15, 2004
MUSIC & SOUND
SUB~SUBJECT: Music/Notation & Digital Recording