Learn and practice

Reading notes, staff, fingering and rhythm

Choose your flute, review the available notes and practice with short reading and meter exercises.

Learning

Theory, exercises and interactive practice

Choose a flute and switch between music references, click-based exercises and beta microphone practice.

Recommended path

Start here and move step by step

Learn the foundations, create or choose a tablature, train reading and then practice with the microphone.

1
Base

Understand notes and fingering

Review notes, staff, scales, rhythm and how these concepts appear in tablatures.

2
Platform

Create or choose a tablature

Use your own tablature or explore public music to get real practice material.

3
Training

Practice reading by stages

Start with simple matching, then combine fingering, staff, note and rhythm.

4
Real practice

Play with feedback

Use the microphone for target note, mini-game and beta performance when you are ready.

Foundations

Music and platform usage

Review the essential music concepts and understand how to apply them to tablatures, library and practice.

Using the platform

From idea to practice

The same tablature can start as a draft, live in your library, be shared and then be used for practice.

Create a tablature

Choose the flute, write the notes, confirm fingering and use the preview to validate the result.

Create tablature

Manage your library

Keep tablatures private, edit arrangements and track the content you have prepared.

Open library

Publish with context

When a tablature is ready, add description and tags so the community can find it more easily.

Prepare publishing

Practice a tablature

Open a public or personal tablature, review the staff, listen to the melody and use performance mode when signed in.

Explore music
How to read

Baroque soprano recorder

Without a number, such as C, you use the base register of the flute.

With a number, such as C6, you request the higher note on that same flute.

Current learning range: C5-B6.

On recorders, the first side hole represents the back thumb hole.

Scales

Quick references

C major

C/Do · D/Re · E/Mi · F/Fa · G/Sol · A/La · B/Si · C/Do

Upper climb

A/La · B/Si · C/Do · D/Re

Rhythm

What /4, /8 and /16 mean

A/4 means a quarter note. A/8 is an eighth note. A/16 is a sixteenth note.

R/4 is a quarter rest and R/8 is an eighth rest.

A dot at the end, as in A/4., makes that note longer.

Examples

How to read them quickly

Same note, different durations

A/4 / A/8 / A/16

With ornament

A[cut] / A[roll]/8 / D[slide]/4

With rests

A/4 R/8 A/8

Quick map

Notes on your flute

First the base notes, then the higher register when available.

Base register

Main notes

C/DoC511111111
C#/Do#C#51111111h
D/ReD511111110
Eb/MibEb5111111h0
E/MiE511111100
F/FaF511111011
F#/Fa#F#511110110
G/SolG511110000
Ab/LabAb5111011h0
A/LaA511100000
Bb/SibBb511011000
B/SiB511000000
High register

High notes

C/DoC610100000
C#/Do#C#601100000
D/ReD600100000
Eb/MibEb600111110
E/MiE6h1111100
F/FaF6h1111010
F#/Fa#F#6h1110100
G/SolG6h1110000
Ab/LabAb6h1101000
A/LaA6h1100000
Bb/SibBb6h1101110
B/SiB6h1101100
Reading staff notation

Symbols to recognize

Before staff exercises, identify the elements that appear on a music line.

Guided example
𝄞44𝄾𝄽

Read from left to right: meter, notes, rest, bar line and dotted duration.

1. Read from left to right

The horizontal order shows when each note, rest or bar line happens.

2. Find the pitch

The vertical position of the note head tells you which note to play.

3. Check the duration

The note shape, stem, flags, beams and dots tell you how long the note lasts.

4. Count inside the measure

The meter organizes music into beat groups so you can keep the pulse.

Note values

How long each value lasts

The note value shows duration. The matching rest takes the same time, but in silence.

NameNoteRestIn appDuration
Whole note𝅝𝄻/14 beats
Half note𝅗𝅥𝄼/22 beats
Quarter note𝄽/41 beat
Eighth note𝄾/81/2 beat
Sixteenth note𝅘𝅥𝅯𝄿/161/4 beat
Thirty-second note𝅘𝅥𝅰𝅀/321/8 beat
Sixty-fourth note𝅘𝅥𝅱𝅁/641/16 beat
𝄞

Clef

Shows how to read pitch on the staff. Here we use treble clef.

Lines and spaces

The vertical position shows whether the note is lower or higher.

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Ledger lines

Small extra lines appear when a note goes above or below the staff.

C

Note head

The note head marks the exact staff position.

Stem

The stem helps show duration, especially on shorter notes.

Flags and beams

Beams join short notes in the same beat group. They do not change duration; they only organize reading.

𝄽

Rest

A rest means silence for a specific duration.

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Bar line

Splits music into measures so timing is easier to count.

4/4

Time signature

Shows how beats are grouped. In 4/4 you count four beats per measure.

/4

Duration

In tablature, /4, /8 and /16 help show how long a note lasts.

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Dot

A dot after the duration makes the note longer.

♯/♭

Accidentals

Sharp and flat change the note. On flute they can significantly change fingering.