A musical note is a character that is indicated in the music how long the tone lasts and in what order, the height. This is also called musical notation. Music notation is centuries old. The first form of musical notation can be seen in 1400 BC. in Babylonia. It was made in cuneiform on a clay tablet. It was supposedly written for the musical instrument lyre. The Italian monk Guido of Arezzo invented the staff in 1025. This made the musical notes easier to read in order to play. How long a tone lasts depends on the shape of the musical note. The duration of a note is determined by the tempo at which a piece of music is to be played. The pitch is determined where the note is indicated on the staff. If the note is marked high on the staff, the tone sounds high. If it is marked lower on the staff, the note sounds lower. You can find musical notes on sheet music. On sheet music, you see as a basis a staff consisting of a number of horizontal lines with the same length and distance between the lines. Usually these are five lines. You can see the notes on, between and below the lines. Sometimes you also see lines under the staff. These are the so-called helplines. Tone and note are not the same. Tone is what you hear and note is what you read. They are extremely important to distinguish them from each other, but you need them both to perform a piece of music properly.

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A musical note is made up of a closed or open ball and can contain a stick or flag. A stick on a nut can sit either right or left. If it is on the right side of the note, it is raised. If it's on the left, it's down. The same goes for the flag. It can be directed to the right and left and top and bottom. You have different kinds of musical notes in terms of appearance. We know the following types: The whole note The half note The quarter note The eighth note The sixteenth note The thirty-second note The whole note is an open-rimmed note and has no stick or flag. The half note is an open-rimmed note with a stick. The quarter note is a closed note with a stick without a flag. The eighth note is a closed note with a flag. The sixteenth note is a closed note with two flags. The thirty-second note is a closed note with three flags. Sometimes you can also see a point behind a note. This is called punting. This means that the note is extended by half a beat, as it were. For example, half a note takes 2 counts. If there is a point behind it, 1 count is added and it is 3 count in total. It is also used for the rest mark on the staff. By applying the accent of a punting in the music, perfection. You sometimes see a point above or below the note. Then we speak of staccato . Staccato means that you play the note short and separate from each other. Notes can also be connected to each other by means of a bar, called a value line. Sometimes you also see two lines of value below each other. Arcs that are above notes or below notes and whose notes are the same, are called a connecting arc. An arc that is above or below several different notes is called a frazer bow or legato bow. The word legato means succinctly. We play this group of notes succinctly.

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