(I don’t want to upset anyone, but that also only emphasizes how close music and math are.) One more addition: the sound value is not the distance between the beginning and the end of the sound, but extends to it, until the next sound is heard. These obtained sound values are reconnected within a beat so that we can create more varied rhythms. A certain sound value is obtained by halving an integer several times (whole, half, quarter, eighth, etc.). The time and pitch are usually marked with a special symbol in the score, other properties or instructions may sometimes appear in text. How? The point is to record the properties of the sounds that make up the melody in the order of the sounds.
The purpose of the sheet music is to record the melody. In addition to traditional musical scores, we also present simplified guitar tabs (short for tabs) for everyone.īut what is a traditional musical (guitar) sheet music like?