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What is piano notation?
Piano music notation is the way written music is conveyed for piano. It typically uses the grand staff, which combines the treble and bass clefs and rhythmic notation.
How many notes (or keys) are on a piano?
A standard piano keyboard has 88 keys, but smaller keyboards often have 61, 76 or 49 keys.
What are double dotted notes?
Double dotted notes function in the same way as dotted notes. However they add half of the value of the dot, not the whole note value. This example of a double dotted half note is worth three and a half beats.
I could not find a note-key chart sheet that fully satisfied me, so I decided to make one myself. Maybe other beginners will also find this helpful.
Link to the pdf: https://www.file-upload.net/download-14763443/note_key_chart_sheet.pdf.html
Link to the MS Word file, feel free to edit it to fit your own needs: https://www.file-upload.net/download-14763442/note_key_chart_sheet.docx.html
[Since it looks a bit misleading: The Bitcoin-donation-address that appears on the download site is not mine, but the file hosters.]
I'm not a dumb guy, I promise. But for all the years I've been looking at sheet music for singing in choirs and attempting to play piano, I STILL have to do "every good boy does fine" and "all cows eat grass" to figure out what notes are very frequently. Add in sharps and flats past the keys of G and F major, and notes above and below the staff, and I am done. I have finally given into the fact that I am just not going to be able to quickly translate between dots on a page and the corresponding key on a keyboard.
Just having the note names written down near every note would be a huge help. The "normal" notes would be there for duration and a qualitative indication of interval, but the letters would tell me where to put my damn fingers.
Is anyone aware of a source of sheet music that provides this sort of thing? Or perhaps software that does it?
Hi -- i'm curious if folks are aware of products/services that do this?
My current workflow below to clarify the problem I'm trying to solve.
Current workflow:
open up a PDF editor for the sheet music
manually add in the letter note*
*Note: i'm in parallel working on training to read by sight but this will help me
Example output I'm looking for:
I input the PDF file with the sheet music
The software auto generates letter notes by each note for the sheet music I've uploaded (see example below)
Note: I've read these posts that came up through a search
https://www.reddit.com/r/piano/comments/u69lrv/what_websites_have_sheet_music_with_the_note/
https://www.reddit.com/r/piano/comments/ku1wdw/do_you_annotate_your_sheet_music/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/16fo4vs/does_musescore_3_have_a_function_to_annotate/
https://www.reddit.com/r/piano/comments/1x9wy5/what_is_a_programwebsite_that_i_can_enter_piano/