How To Draw Musical Notes On The Stave

Musical sounds are represented by notes. The sound pitch is represented by drawing these signs on the different lines and spaces of the staff. We have seven musical notes, which, ordered from low to high, form the musical scale. The notes are: DO, RE, MI, FA, SOL, LA and SI. To place the notes, which due to their height cannot be represented within the staff, small lines are used that momentarily extend the extension of the musical pattern. These signs are called additional lines.

Instructions to draw the musical notes on the stave

1. In order to draw musical notes on the staff, we must first know what the staff is and what the notes, musical figures and clefs are.
2. The pentagram is the place where the notes and all other musical signs are written. It has five lines and four spaces, which are numbered from bottom to top. The lines are horizontal, straight and equidistant.
3. The musical notes are the symbols and names that receive the sounds of the diatonic scale, which are 7: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La Si
4. The musical figures are the symbols with which the notes are represented and indicate their duration: round, white, black, eighth note, semiquaver, fusa and semifusa. In the order in which they are written, each one lasts twice as long as the one that follows it.
5. The function of the clef is to associate the musical notes with the lines or spaces of the staff.
6. The Treble clef, which begins to be drawn on the second line, indicates that the SOL note is located on the second line of the staff.
7. We are going to place them on the pentagram.
8. We draw the treble clef on the staff starting from the second line. The note drawn on the second line is called SOL.
9. In the next space (second) up will be LA.
10. In the next line (third) will be YES.
11. In the next space (third) will be DO.
12. In the fourth line will be RE.
13. In the fourth space is MI.
14. In the fifth line is FA.
15. In the fifth line is SOL.
16. Above the fifth line is MI.
17. And you can keep adding additional lines to represent more notes.
18. If we go back to SOL, in the previous space will be FA.
19. In the previous line, in the first one will be Mi.
20. Below the first line will be RE.
21. And you can keep adding additional lines and representing more notes.

What do you need to draw the musical notes on the staff?

• Pentagram paper
• Pencil
• A lot of practice

Tips for drawing musical notes on the staff

• Sometimes we talk about notes and figures interchangeably, however we must clarify the difference.
• The musical notes are: DO RE MI FA SOL LA SI.
• The musical figures are: ROUND, WHITE, BLACK, EIGHTH, SEMIQUARCHE, FUSE AND SEMIFUSE.
• The treble clef is the most used to learn the notes on the staff.
• Watch our video to learn how to draw musical notes on the staff.