Music Education
Introduction to Reading Music: Types of Notes
A tutorial for beginners learning to read music.
Music Education
Learning to Read Music: Types of Notes
Learn about the different types of notes in music--the whole note, half note, quarter notes, eighth note, and sixteenth note--and listen to midi files of music samples.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Enharmonic Spelling
Understand what enharmonic notes are and why they are needed. Included are several self checking problems to test your knowledge.
PBS
Classics for Kids: Note Name Game
Have fun playing this interactive game that helps you practice your knowledge of note names. Drag and drop the names of the notes to spell words.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Dots, Ties, and Borrowed Divisions
Read and learn about how dotted notes and ties work. Included on this page is a self checking quiz.
Other
The Basics of Reading Music
This site is an overview of how to read music. The basics of notation such as note and rest values, the names of lines and spaces of both treble and bass clefs, etc. are covered. Includes downloadable audio files.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Line Notes and Space Notes
This lesson will help students determine whether the notes on a staff appear on a line or on a space. Students also will recognize how many lines and spaces are on a staff.
Music Theory
Music Theory: The Staff, Clefs, and Ledger Lines
Use the arrows at the bottom of the screen to move through the statements about musical staffs, clefs, and ledger lines, and see them demonstrated on the lines above the text.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Piano Player
Interactive game where musical notes are shown on a scale and you have to choose the piano key that matches the note. Choose from four levels of play, from beginner to virtuoso.
Other
Musical Pitch
This site offers a very technical explanation of pitch. The author's emphasis is on tuning by intervals, explaining the different spaces of intervals by name. A very complex interactive diagram is included.
Other
Piano Nanny: Piano on the Net
This site provides extensive piano lessons, utilizing helpful guides complete with audio. Detailed information on the computer configuration needed for this site is given, as well as a 12 note keyboard.
Other
Guitar Land: Music 10: Note Values and Rhythms
An overview of the value of notes. Includes many examples of rhythms and tempos.
Other
Music Theory First Aid for Struggling Students
This site provides music theory information on such topics as rhythm, intervals, scales, chords, etc. Also, there is a fine section which describes the basic concepts of form and structure.
Other
Music Lessons : Basic Music Theory 1
Basic music theory course includes clefs, treble and bass staffs, note duration and rests, a quiz section and answers, a download to Bay and a link to Music Notation 2. Good source for beginner theory students
Music Education
Learning to Read Music: Basic Counting
Apply basic knowledge of reading music by counting beats and reading notes. Here are some simple lines of music which incorporate different types of notes and patterns in common time.
Music Education
Learning to Read Music: Basic Counting, Part 2
Beginning musicians can practice reading notes and counting beats using this resource that also provides several lines of music with different types of notes, rests, and time signatures.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Music for Kids: What Is a Musical Note?
What makes up a musical note? Kids can learn about pitch and music notation on this site.
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Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)
Educaplus: Memoria Musical [In Spanish]
Check and see if you have good ears for musical notes.
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Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)
Educaplus: Memoria Musical (Con Bemoles) [In Spanish]
Listen to the musical notes and see if you can play it on the keyboard.
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Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)
Educaplus: Notas Musicales [In Spanish]
See if you can recognize the musical notes with this interactive activity.
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Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)
Educaplus: Ritmos (Medio) [In Spanish]
In this activity you must identify the rhythm you hear and relate it to their representation in musical notation. This is a intermediate level.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Learning to Reading Musical Notes
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will learn to recognize lines, spaces, and notes on the treble clef staff. It contains interactive pages, 2 hand-bell songs, and a hand-bell video clip.
Music Theory
Music theory.net
An online beginning music theory and ear training site. This site is for students to use at home to reinforce what they learn in class.
Merriam-Webster
Merriam Webster: Dictionary Illustration: Types of Notes
Labeled illustration of musical notes, whole note down to a sixty-fourth.