okay uh welcome to what I I'm making the third video of the week here um and this video is going to be a very quick video about notation now I've given you a handout that is quite long and quite detailed um for this week I want you to focus on pages 7 through 14 and I will put that in canvas somewhere too um now you can read pages well zero or one through six and that's the history of notation what it sort of looked like um in Europe as Europe developed this system um in the Middle Ages um and the system went through quite a few changes before we got through a feline staff we call it okay so feel free to read that in fact skim it and um get a little background information um I'm not going to test you on that um but uh um I did want to sort of show you some of the things that are in there so I think reading it and then seeing it or vice versa um might be helpful to you and so this is about how to write the things literally write some of the symbols and we're not even going to worry about what the symbols really mean yet um so when it comes to Rhythm we have a week about Rhythm coming up and we will get to all of that okay so um at page page 14 um you can stop before you get to the rests if you want to that's all we need for this week and there are two PDFs assignment for as an assignment uh that I want you to fill out for this by next week um just to get some practice here that is a um it is a a participation grade essentially so if you turn in just half of it then you'll get half the points uh but if you really give it a good college try even if you um make mistakes you'll get all the points and then I'll make comments on there it's really important that you check out comments on all of our assignments because that's the main way that I have to communicate with you uh in um and and let you know how you're doing and then you can make Corrections going forward okay um so the the reading will walk you through some of these things but I just wanted to show you uh some tips and tricks here so uh the first thing I want to talk about are notee head okay um and uh we want kind of a slamp so we have two main types of notee heads we have a a filled in note head that looks like this okay and then we have an open note head that looks like this now you want your note heads to be nice and square in the space uh that they exist or on the line and when you make a Fillin note head let's put it down here on a line uh you're going to start in the middle and then just sort sort of fill it out like work your way out um some people will do something like this and the reading talks about where you make a circle and then you fill it in that's going to be too slow okay it's going to make your homework take forever so get in the habit of just starting here let's put it up here starting in the center I don't know if you can see that let's see kind of you can okay and then fill it out uh to the the outer edge that you need it's also a little easier to make it neat that way and there really technically should be a little bit of a slant uh to the the oval um like this one's a little big and a little ugly so we'll just get rid of that one okay um I don't really care how you make the open note heads some people do sort of a two-stroke thing I just make an oval and I just have practiced it enough that it looks decent this one's awful okay oh that's better okay so that's a close and open note heads um I know it seems kind of silly but um uh you'd be surprised uh that I'm saving you time if you didn't know to start from the center all right so then we can make stems um stems are gonna are going to go oh about that long about about three spaces or three lines where it's not quite people disagree on that a little bit okay something like that maybe this one's a little too long okay so we don't want too short of stems or too long of stems it just gets really messy on the page uh and the whole point of notation is communication and you want someone else to be able to read uh what you're writing okay um you will be reading and be asked to make flags we're not talking about what they mean yet if you already know what they mean that's great um but if the note the the stem is going down uh then you would do a little flag like this and let's make one where the stem is going up all right and this one goes out like that and it's just like a little little curve line okay uh it doesn't have to look like it is when it's printed on the page right so that's a font uh it's very difficult to recreate fonts by hand so we're not going to worry about that okay um and then I guess I should address one final thing um how to stem uh and how to decide when to stem up or when to stem down so um we have a center line here and the general rule is if the note head is above the middle line then the stem will go down okay and if the note head is below then the stem will go up okay um and that's it and then what happens if it's on the middle line well it kind of depends on the context uh but I want to make a note right here on the middle line and I have another note that's nearby uh where the stem is going down and so in this case I'm going to make the stem go down because it's just easier to read uh when it's near these other notes and sometimes just a a call that you have to make and most of the time it's fine uh but you don't if I if I put a if I put a note here in between uh that's still on the on the line here you don't want something that kind of looks like this this is kind of a mess okay so we we would just keep notes nearby sort of as close or as similar as we can okay I think that's it for this video you should be with that information be able to fill out most of the assignment um along with the reading uh let me know if you have any questions