Musical notation uses written symbols to represent music. It includes staff lines to notate pitches, bar lines to divide music into measures, and ledger lines to notate pitches outside the staff. The staff contains five lines that are numbered from bottom to top. Bar lines come in three types: single, double, and end bars. Single bars divide music into measures while double bars separate sections and end bars indicate the end of a piece. Repeat signs use two dots to signify repeating a section.

1. Musical Notation
Lines in music
Lesson 2

2. What is musical notation
► Musical Notation is a system to visually represent aurally perceived music
through use of written symbols.

3. There is also an Eastern way of writing
notes

4. Lines used in music.
► There are 3 types of lines used in music.
► Lines in the staff
► Bar lines
► ledger lines

5. Basics of Western music notation

6. What is the staff/staves
► The five lines in musical notation where all the music is written.
► These lines and the spaces in between them are numbered in the following
way.

7. Usually,
► When things are counted in music for example,
► Staff lines
► Intervals
► The strings of the guitar
► They are always counted from bottom to top.

8. Bar lines
► There are 3 types of bar lines.
► Single bar lines
► Double bar lines
► End bar line
► Repeat symbols are lines with 2 dots.

9. Single Bar lines
► A single bar line divides music into measures (also called bars), breaking up
the musical paragraph into smaller, measurable groups of notes and rests

10. Double bar lines
► A double bar line (or double bar) can consist of two
single bar lines drawn close together, separating two
sections within a piece,.

11. End double bar line
► Bar line followed by a thicker bar line, indicates the end of a piece or
movement.

12. Repeat symbol
► In music, a repeat sign is a sign that indicates a section should be repeated. If
the piece has one repeat sign alone, then that means to repeat from the
beginning, and then continue on (or stop, if the sign appears at the end of the
piece).

13. ledger lines
► A ledger line [or leger line] is used in Western musical
notation to notate pitches above or below the lines and
spaces of the regular musical staff.
► A line slightly longer than the note head is drawn parallel
to the staff, above or below, spaced at the same distance
as the lines within the staff.