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A free breakout game to learn rests

In music, a rest is a brief silence, a short break in the flow of sound. In musical notation, a rest is the sign that indicates such a break.

Just as there are notes of different durations (whole note, half note etc.), there are rests of different durations.

Our breakout game Note Cracker teaches you to recognize different types of rests and the notes to which they correspond. Whenever the ball hits a rest, it cracks it open and a note of equivalent duration comes out. For instance, if the ball hits a half rest, a half note comes out.

Your breakout game features four gaming speeds, lives, Hi-Score List and more. You can also cuztomize the background with your pictures.

Your breakout game features four gaming speeds, lives, Hi-Score List and more. You can also cuztomize the background with your pictures.

Music notes and funnies animals pictures to learn to control the mouse

Download Clic Notes HN

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Click Notes HN is a learning mouse game for kids. To play, you must click on the notes and turn them into animals. The speed of moving notes can be set from 0 (immobile) to 100 (unplayable, even for parents!).

It is also possible to play with all notes or only some : a simple click on a note before you start the game, disable it.

When you exit Notes Click HN, settings are saved.

At the end of the game, the images come alive on a piece of music: it is possible to learn the left double click and the right click with them.

Each click on a note earn points. The more notes and the faster they move, the more points you earn.

Learn Music Notes duration with this free computer game

When reading sheet music, it is necessary to know the relative duration of each music note. The duration of a music note is indicated by its appearance.

Music Notes In Space HN is a free computer game that makes it easy to learn and remember what shape of music note corresponds to what relative duration (whole music note, half music note, quarter music note) as well as the ratio of any note duration to any other (1 whole music note = 2 half music notes; 1 half music note = 2 quarter music notes; 1 whole music note = 4 quarter music notes) :

• For you to score, the duration indicated by the spaceship (whole, half, quarter) must match the duration of the music notes you’re shooting at.
• When you hit a whole music note, it splits into 2 half music notes; when you hit a half music note, it splits into 2 quarter music notes
• When 2 quarter music notes collide with each other, they turn into 1 half music note. When 2 half music notes collide with each other, they turn into 1 whole music note.
• At the start of each game, you must answer a multiple choice mini-quiz on music notes durations. Your answer will determine how many lives you start the game with.
• You have the option to have the game display or not the duration of each music note you hit.

You can configure Music Notes In Space HN so it will be suitable for players of any age:

• There are three levels of difficulty: BEGINNER- ADVANCED- EXPERT
• You can give yourself bonus points at the start of each game by clicking on the score indicator
• You can activate or deactivate the comets and meteors at the start of each game.

Music Notes In Space HN remains fun to play even after you’ve memorized the relative duration of each type of note.

Download Music Notes In Space HN

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A free tetris game with lives and Hi-Score

A customizable Tetris-like with lives, Hi-score and dynamite sticks!

In this free tetris game, music notes are dropping from the treble clef at the top of your screen. Using your keyboard’s left and right arrow keys, your objective is to steer each note so it lands on its name at the bottom of the screen.

Be careful : if a falling music note collides with a dynamite stick, it explodes and you lose one Life !

• Download Free Tetris HN

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Ear training computer game to ear music notes the fun way

Ear training software Ear Training Play It By Ear HN is a game that teaches you to recognize any music notes you hear. So, feel free to say good bye to boring old musical dictation: ear training has just become fun!

• Download Ear Training Play It By Ear HN

Windows 7, Vista, XP, Me, 98, 95, NT, 2000

You can choose between the syllabic (Do Re Mi…) and alphabetical (A B C… – or A H C for German speakers) notation systems. With a simple click, you can also decide how many lives and bonus points you’ll start the game with and how many music notes you’ll have to hear and recognize to win.

While playing, if you don’t recognize a note the first time, no problem: press the Space bar to hear it again! You can also ask Play It By Ear to help you by playing an A. Finally, if you still don’t know, Play It By Ear will give you the answer. Again, all you have to do is ask!

You can of course win extra lives while playing (we’ll tell you how!). But that’s not all. If you turn the Cartoons option on, each time you correctly identify a note, the moving picture of a cartoon animal pops up on your screen. If you manage to click on it before it floats away, you win extra points (each note has its own cartoon animal: so a new image is your reward for each new note you learn!) This is a great way for children’s ear training !

At the end of each game, Ear Training Play It By Ear HN displays the names of the ten best players: that’s the Hi-Score list. The number of points you win for each good guess depends on how many notes to play with you’ve selected at the beginning. So the further you progress in your ear training game, the higher your score can be, and the better your chances to make the Hi-Score list !

Happy Note! ear training software Play It By Ear and Sheet Music Treble Clef and Bass Clef HN share the same interface and the same Learning menu.

No previous knowledge of music is required to play ear training game Play It By Ear. You can make the game as easy or as hard as you wish: it can be customized to meet everyone’s needs.

You can let our Learning menu help you progress step by step (it is the same Learning menu as in Sheet Music Treble Clef and Bass Clef HN), but you can also set ear training your own pace by selecting yourself the notes you want to play with.

Learn to read music notes from scratch or have fun sharpening your skills

Use the “Learning” menu to let Sheet Music Treble Clef and Bass Clef HN teach you how to read music one note at a time, at your own pace. Or, if you or your child are already learning music theory the old-fashioned way, customize Sheet Music Treble Clef and Bass Clef HN to complement your method of choice. Simply click on the music notes you want to play with. It’s a new, exciting way to brush up on and sharpen your music reading skills.

A computer game to learn to read music in Treble Clef and Bass Clef

Sheet Music Treble Clef and Bass Clef HN is a real computer game, with all the bells and whistles, that teaches children and adults musical notation. It’s both fun and educational. Say good bye to boring music theory lessons: now, you can learn to read music and play at the same time.

Download Sheet Music Treble Clef and Bass Clef HN

Windows 7, Vista, XP, Me, 98, 95, NT, 2000

Class 2

Symbols of Music

This page contains some of the symbols you might come across while reading music.

1. = This page contains some of the symbols you might come across while reading music.
2. = Play the note 1/2 step down (Flat)
3. = Play the note normally; pay no attention to the key signature

The above 3 symbols can also appear at the beginning of each line of music affecting the whole line. Also, if they are included in an individual measure, they override each other and carry through ties or slurs.

Compressed Rests. The number on top specifies how many measures of rest.

= Fermata. Hold the note until cut off.

Repeat. Play through normally until 2nd symbol, then go back to 1st symbol and play again, this time ignoring 2nd symbol.

Begin and End. Marks the beginning and ending of a piece.

Tie. Make each note flow into the next. (Do not break them up).

Shaping and Volume of Music

For music to have some real feeling and expression it must be shaped.

Learn Music

Some people think trying to read music is hard and difficult. The following set of pages will try to introduce the most important topics in reading music in a very easy to understand way. Don’t expect to fly through all the lessons and understand. As with anything new, it’ll appear complicated and complex but as you look at the examples and read the explanations it will make sense. With that said, lets go on and introduce the first lesson.

• Part 1
  

Clefs

There are 2 basic kinds of clefs. The clef you will see on your music depends on what instrument you play.

Treble Clef
Bass Clef

You might wonder why there are 2 different clefs. The reason is that most instruments using the bass clef usually have a lower pitch (sound) and regulary play low notes. If they were to use the treble clef the notes would appear so far below the staff it would be hard to read.

Here are the the names of the notes for both clefs. Although you only really need to know 1 or the other, it is good practice to know both.

The treble clef:

The bass clef:

Time Signatures

Time signatures tell you how many and what kind of notes per measure there are. The number on top is the number of notes per measure, and the bottom number is what kind of note. Let us explain further.

• This means there is 4 quarter notes per measure. How is this so?

  Looking at 4/4, you saw the 4 on top. You already knew that meant there were 4 somethings per measure. Then looking at the bottom number probably confused you. The bottom number can be 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc. Look at this chart.

Let us take for example the most popular time signature, 4/4.

• • • 3/4 is 3 quarter notes per measure.
      5/2 is 5 half notes per measure.
      6/8 is 6 eighth notes per measure.

    For example:

    There are also 2 other common things you might see where the time signature should be.

	Common Time Same as 4/4 time
	Cut Time Same as 4/4 but everything is cut in half. Example: a half note = 1 quarter note, a whole note = 1 half note.

• Part 2

Types of Notes:

1 of the most important parts of music is learning the types and values of notes. Here you will gain some understanding of how the notes look and sound. The icon means you can listen to it. All of the music samples are recorded at the same speed and are just 1 measure.

The whole note:

Looks like:

an egg on its side, either with a line through it or not.

The half note:

Looks like:

the same as a whole not but with a vertical line attached to it.

The quarter note:

Looks like:

the same as a half note except the circle is filled in.

The eighth note:

Looks like:

the same as quarter notes but with a curly off the line. They can also be put in groups of 4, 3, or 2.

The sixteenth note:

Looks like:

the same as an eighth note but has double curlies. Can also be grouped in 4, 3 or 2 but are joined by a double line.

• Part 3

Types of Rests:

For each type of note you learned beforehand there is a corresponding rest.

The whole rest:

Looks like:

a dark rectangle attached to a bar line, facing downwards. (1 shown)

The half rest:

Looks like:

a dark rectangle attached to a bar line, facing upwards. (2 shown)

The quarter rest:

Looks like:

a squiggly line. (4 shown)

The eighth rest:

Looks like:

a slanted line with a dot. (8 shown)

The sixteenth rest:

Looks like:

a slanted line with a double dot. (16 shown).

• Part 4

Basic Counting:

One of the most obvious questions is how musicians know when to play. Well, its easy.. they learn to count the beats.

First let us present you with this.

1 whole note = 2 half notes = 4 quarter notes = 8 eighth notes = 16 sixteenth notes.
Keep that in mind while looking at these examples.

Lets start with this example.

First off, looking at the time signature you know that there are 4 quarter notes per measure.

In the first measure the whole note gets all the beats (1, 2, 3 and 4) because 1 whole note = 4 quarter notes, and there are a total of 4 quarter notes per measure.

In the second example, each half note gets 2 beats because 2 quarter notes = 1 half note.

In the third example, each quarter note gets its own beat because there are 4 quarter notes per measure (time sig).

Let’s intermingle the 2 quarter notes and a half note.

The half note get the first 2 beats, and each quarter its own beat. This makes sense because the 4/4 time signature means there is 4 quarter notes per measure. 2 quarter notes + 1 half note (which is really 2 quarters) = 4 quarter notes, the total number of quarter notes for that measure (time sig).

Lets add in the eighth notes.

In this example there is something new. The + sign. It just means “and”. If you said 1 + 2 + … out loud it would sound like this.

1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and

Each eight note is 1/2 of a quarter note, therefore it takes 2 eighth notes to equal 1 quarter note.
Think of it like this: the 1 and the “and” are both half of one quarter note and together they form 1 quarter note and from the time sig we know there are 4 quarters per measure.

This may seem a little confusing now, but all of the sudden it will click. You will hit yourself in the head and wonder how you never understood it.

After you understand this, go on to Next .

Basic Counting, Part 2:

Let’s introduce a mixed example.

The quarter note is obviously beat 1 because from the time sig you know there are 4 quarter notes per measure. You also already know one half note = 2 quarter notes therefore the half note must be beats 2 and 3. Finally, you know that two eighth notes = 1 quarter note so they must be the “4 +”.

When many different kinds of notes are intermingled, it starts to become tricky to count. Musicians will sometimes subdivide the notes so the counting flows more easily. Let’s use the above example, but this time sub divide it.

Here every note in the measure is subdivided into 8th notes thus making it a lot more “fluid” to count. Its pretty easy to understand too… one quarter note is two 8th notes, so it gets “1 +”. The half note is really four eighth notes so it get “2 + 3 +”. And the each 8th note get a half so one is “4″ and the other is the “and” of 4.

Here would also be a good place to throw in a few examples with rests. These will just show the counting and will not explain them. Just think of the rests in terms of their corresponding notes and you’ll have no problem!

Counting the 16th note.

Basically counting 16th notes is similiar to 8th notes except that you need to add more things to count with. I was taught using “e” and “a”, but feel free to use what you want. Each part, the “1″, “e”, “+”, “a” are all 1/4 of 1 quarter note. Together they add up to 1 beat according to the time sig. (4 sixteenths = 1 quarter)
Different time sigs and different notes.

Here you are.. the top of the note hill. Just look at these and the counting section is over!

Remember.. from this time sig you are counting the 8th notes.

Remember you are counting half notes, and therefore you have to subdivide the eighth notes and quarter notes accordingly.

These Are Basics of  Music.