1. Beginner’s guide

2.  Look at the staffs ________________________  Bars connect the staffs that are played at the same time.  Look for the choir brace.  Find the staff for your part.  Read the music from staff system to staff system.

3. 1.Look for the choir brace. 2.Find the clef sign 3.Follow that sign from staff system to staff system.

6.  Bar Line |  Choir Brace [  Piano Brace {  Staff System Staff System

7.  On manuscript paper draw the following things: 1.Your Name 2.connect 2 staffs with a bar line 3.Add a choir brace 4.connect 2 more staffs to the choir staffs with a bar line. 5.Add a piano brace. 6.Skip a staff, and repeat all of the above. 7.Circle the 2 staff systems

8. Look at the notes on the staff. Notes are different. ♪ Whole noteHalf notequarter note eighth note 4 counts 2 counts 1 count ½ count

9. Quarter Notes = 1 eighth notes = 1/2 triplets = 1/3 16 th notes = 1/4