Music Notes and Composing…
Posted By Rebekah on March 8, 2010
From Rebekah’s quill …
When I was a very little girl, I started writing music. I wanted to be able to remember and replay my songs on the piano, so I wrote them out on sheets of paper, using the letter that represented each key, to notate them. For example, one of my songs might have looked something like:
C F E C G (I generally used my right hand only, sometimes adding a C, F or G chord with my left – the only ones I knew!)
Now, I write more complicated then that and my old system doesn’t work. I’m trying to figure out how to hand write my music. As you can see by my picture, I’m not doing so well… Do you all ever wonder how the classical composers did it? Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Liszt? In their time, there were no computer programs or keyboard recording devices – they had to write it down by hand or memorize it – or possibly both! How did they do it? They composed intricate, advanced pieces and somehow managed to have copies to leave to future generations…I wish I knew how they did it…
Side note: I do have a computer software to record my songs – but I haven’t been able to make it work yet. So, until then (and probably afterwards too, since the computer won’t always be available when the piano is!) I shall continue to attempt my handwritten music notes… Oh! and no, none of those notes in the picture are set to go with a time signature – and they aren’t all whole notes – I only know how to play them because I know what the song should sound like!
To the KING be all the glory!













