When we play songs with musical instruments, we must know and understand the simplified musical notation of the song. So how can we understand the music theory of the simplified musical notation? I will introduce to you the introductory music theory knowledge of the simplified musical notation, for reference only.

Introductory music theory knowledge of simplified musical notation: understanding of music

1. Rhythm: The rhythm of music refers to the length and strength of the midtones in the music movement. The rhythm of music is often compared to the skeleton of a musician. Beat is the periodic and regular repetition of heavy beats and weak beats in music. Traditional Chinese music calls the beat "banyan", "banyan" is equivalent to the strong beat, and "eye" is equivalent to the strong beat (middle eye) or weak beat.

2. Speed: the speed of the beat during the music.

3. Melody: Also called a tune, it refers to an organized series of musical tones of different lengths, heights, and strengths. It is the foundation and soul of music.

4. Mode: refers to several tones forming a system according to a certain relationship, with one of the tones as the center (the main tone). This system is called mode. There are major mode, minor mode and pentatonic mode. Major mode: 1234567i Minor mode: 67123456●●Pentatonic mode: 1 (Gong) 2 (Shang) 3 (Jiao) 5 (Zheng) 6 (Feather)

Pentatonic refers to? Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng, Yu? The singing is not accurate.

5. Harmony: Modern refers to the simultaneous combination of sounds and their continuous progression.

Introductory music theory knowledge of simplified musical notation: musical notes

In simplified musical notation, the symbols that record the pitch and length of sounds are called musical notes. The symbols used to represent the pitch of these sounds are marked with seven Arabic numerals. They are written as: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

The pronunciation is: do re mi fa so la si

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Notes are closely connected with pitch, and there is no note without pitch.

Introductory music theory knowledge of simplified musical notation: pitch

The numerical symbols of notes such as 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 represent different pitches. Notes and pitches are intuitively understood on the piano keyboard. Broadly speaking, there are always 7 notes in music.

12 3 4 5 6 7

From low to high

Introductory music theory knowledge of simplified musical notation: the length of notes

In addition to high and low notes, of course, they also represent length. Here is a basic musical term - beat. Beat is an important concept that represents the length of a note.

Indicates that the length of music requires a relatively fixed concept of time. Notes in simplified notation are divided into whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, sixteenth notes, thirty-second notes, etc. The most important of these notes is the quarter note, which is a basic reference measurement length, that is, a quarter note is one beat. The concept of a beat here is a relative unit of time measurement. There is no limit to the length of a beat, it can be 1 second, 2 seconds or half a second. If one beat is one second long, then two beats is two seconds; if one beat is half a second, two beats is one second long. Once this basic beat is settled, making symbols longer or shorter than a beat is relatively easy.

Use a horizontal line to the right or below the quarter note to define the length of the note.

The following is a list of commonly used notes and their length marks:

As can be seen from the above example: some horizontal lines are marked behind the notes, and some are marked below the notes. Depending on the position of the mark, the duration of the marked note is also different. A rule can be found from the table, that is: to extend the duration of the note, add a horizontal line to the right of the quarter note. The horizontal line at this time is called a delay line. The more delay lines there are, the longer the note lasts (duration). The longer. On the contrary, the more horizontal lines under a note, the shorter the time of that note.

Rests

In music, in addition to the pitch and length of sounds, there are also rests. The symbol that indicates the rest of the sound is called a rest, and is marked with ?0?. In layman's terms, it is a symbol without sound or sound. Rests are basically the same as notes, and there are six types. But generally, 0 is directly used to replace the added horizontal line. Each additional 0 increases the duration of a quarter rest.

Introductory music theory knowledge of simplified musical notation: semitones and whole steps

There is a "distance" between notes, and this distance is a relatively calculable value. In music, the smallest distance between two adjacent tones is called a semitone, and the distance between two semitones constitutes a whole tone. On the piano, two keyboards that are closely connected on the piano keyboard form a semitone, while two keyboards separated by one keyboard form a whole tone. The spaces between 3 and 4, and 7 and 7 on the white key position constitute a semitone; while the spaces between 1 and 2, between 2 and 3, as well as between 4 and 5, and 6 and 7 constitute a whole tone. There is a black key between 1 and 2, and 1 and 2 and this black key both form a semitone.

Variation tone

The tone obtained by raising or lowering the standard note is the variation tone.

Raising a note by a semitone is called a sharp, which is represented by ?#? (sharp sign). It is usually written in the upper left part of the note, as shown below:

Standard notes are lowered by a semitone. , represented by ? b ? (flat), is also written in the upper left part of the note:

The basic pitch is raised by a whole tone, which is called a double-sharp tone, expressed by ?x? (re-sharp), which is the same as the mode related.

Lowering the basic tone by a whole tone is called a heavy flat tone. Expressed by bb? (heavy drop). To change the sound that has been raised (including re-raised) or lowered (including re-lowered) into the original sound, use the reduction symbol to express it

The strength and weakness of the beat

Each type of beat has different strength and weakness rules. You can learn about the types of commonly used beats from the following list. Take tone 5 as an example: Note: strong beat, weak beat, sub-strong beat.

Modeal scale

Several tones (usually about seven tones) combined according to a certain relationship form a tone sequence system with a main tone (center tone), forming a mode. .

The sequence of notes in a mode, from tonic to tonic, arranged according to a certain pitch relationship, is called a scale.

1. Major mode:

Any scale whose musical scale arrangement conforms to the structure of whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, and half is a natural major key. This is the most widely used mode.

2. Minor mode:

There are also three forms of minor mode:

a: natural minor: any scale conforms to whole, half, whole, whole, half A scale with a complete, complete structure is called a natural minor.

b: Harmonic minor: Raising the seventh level of the natural minor scale, called harmonic minor