Notation

Although there are many ways in which a musician can read or write music, there are thousands of additional ways that are not as common. While thinking of a new way to write music, I was able to come up with a few different ways, but chose the one that was easiest to understand. My new notation is composed of letters and numbers written in one straight line, read left to right. The letters correspond to the pitch of the note, whether it is an A, B, F, etc.. The number correspond to the length of the notes. For example a quarter note is represented by a 4, and an eighth note is represented by an 8 and so on. The music is still separated into bars with a time signature. So a piece of music written in common time could have four letters with four numbers written above them. The piece could have the letters A, B, C, and D written in one bar with 4s over each letter, the notes would then be played as quarter notes. Likewise, a single bar could have 8 letters in it, all with the number 8 above them. This type of notation would benefit people who have a hard time reading notes on a staff, but this could also be confusing since the numbers above the letters get higher as the notes shorten in length.