Construction of musical notes- sunil shrestha

Construction of musical notes

You couldn't read or write music without notes. If you think of music as a language, the notes are like letters of the alphabet. If you know how to recognize the notes, you can learn the language.

Notes are made up of up to three specific components: note head, stem, and flag. Every note has a head — it’s the round part of a note. 

A note stem is the vertical line attached to the note head. A note flag is the little line that comes off the top or bottom of the note stem.

Every note has a head. An eighth note (the third one shown here) has all three possible components of a note: the head, the stem, and the flag

each note getting a flag, though, notes with flags can also be connected to each other with a beam, which is really just another, more organized-looking incarnation of the flag. For example, two eighth notes can be written as each having a flag, or as connected by a beam.

Eighth notes can be connected together with beams instead of having individual flags.

Four  sixteenth notes can have flags, can be grouped into two pairs connected by a double beam, or can all be connected by one double beam. It doesn’t matter which way they are written, they would sound the same when played.

These three groups of sixteenth notes, written in three different ways, would all sound alike when played.

Likewise, eight thirty-second notes could be written in a number of ways. Note that thirty-second notes get three flags (or three beams).

Like eighth notes and sixteenth notes, thirty-second notes can be written separately or “beamed” together.