![]() A half note ( h ), as the name suggests, is half of that: two beats. The duration of a note is determined by three elements: the note head, stem, and flag. Every time you pass a G, the sequence of notes repeats, starting with A. Standard notation is written on a five-line staff, with notes in alphabetical order, from A to G. Devote a portion of your practice time to learning how notation works-and reading new music-and those strange symbols will become rich with musical information. For handy reference, download a free PDF of the notation guide here. ![]() ![]() Here’s a comprehensive primer, covering all of the notational aspects you’ll typically find on these pages, for any type of ukulele. As with guitar and other fretted instruments, ukulele notation is typically conveyed in several ways-through the standard staff notation that any trained musician can read, and by tablature and chord frames, which are ukulele- and even tuning-specific. But it would be a good idea to have at least a little understanding of how notation works. To get the most from this magazine, which is packed with music for songs and lessons in each issue, you don’t have to become a virtuosic sight-reader. Here’s how to read ukulele music and understand musical notation. But many who read notation find it an invaluable tool for learning new music and sharing it with others, while getting to better know their instruments. For the uninitiated, music notation can look less like musical symbols than birds on a telephone wire or insects crawling on a page-inscrutable information that they haven’t a clue what to do with.
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