Learning

The “Learning” entry of the floating menu opens the Easy Worship page in a new tab, on the “Notes and solfège” panel. It can also be reached from the options page, through the “Learning” group of the side menu, which also contains the chord diagrams of each instrument. These panels are for reference only: they have no settings and save nothing.

Note names

Latin languages such as French or Spanish often write chords in solfège (Do, Ré, Mi…); international notation uses letters (C, D, E…). The panel puts the two side by side, over two octaves from C to C:

Do = C, Ré = D, Mi = E, Fa = F, Sol = G, La = A, Si = B.

Below the names, a grand staff shows where each note sits: treble clef on top, bass clef below, with middle C on both staves. In each clef, the note the clef points to (G for the treble clef, F for the bass clef) is highlighted.

Notes are not written the same way in treble clef and in bass clef. On the piano, the main melody is often read in treble clef and played with the right hand, and the accompaniment is read in bass clef and played with the left hand.

Notes and rests

Each note figure has a rest of the same duration, given in beats (a quarter note lasts one beat). The table shows them with their symbol:

whole note and whole rest: 4 beats;
dotted half note and dotted half rest: 3 beats;
half note and half rest: 2 beats;
quarter note and quarter rest: 1 beat;
eighth note and eighth rest: 1/2 beat;
sixteenth note and sixteenth rest: 1/4 beat;
thirty-second note and thirty-second rest: 1/8 beat;
sixty-fourth note and sixty-fourth rest: 1/16 beat.

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