Around the world today, music is written down in a number of different ways.

In the West, most instruments use a method called staff notation.

The music staff, or stave (for plural), is made up of 5 horizontal lines as shown in the figure below:

On the music staff, notes are placed on the lines:

and in the spaces:

Notes can have black or whiteheads.

This section further introduces you to the basics of music notation which forms the basis in the theory of music.

In this section, we would learn Time values and Time Signatures. These topics are a must-know in music theory.