How to Read Sheet Music -001

This is an example of some simple sheet music. With sheet music, we can represent every note on our keyboard. 

Now we as musicians use different shapes for how long a note should be. Since music uses beats, we have developed symbols to indicate how many beats a particular note is played for. A Whole Note is held for 4 beats. A Half Note is precisely that. Half of a whole so 2 beats. Quarter Notes have a single beat. Eighth Notes have half of a beat. And a Sixteenth Note is half of that. These are the basic types of note lengths in a 4/4 time signature. We will discuss what that means later on.

Now to reference back up to our picture: 

The leftmost quarter note is called Middle C. Followed by D, E, F, G, A, and lastly B. We call it Middle C because if we were to look at a keyboard, it would be found in the center of the keyboard:

Anyhow that's if for now! We'll touch up on some more music theory later. See ya next time!