Here you will find some basic information about musical notes!

So when we want to learn about music, we need to start from the very bottom. Notes. Notes is the equivalent to letters in music, they you could say “tell the story”. Notes tell the musician what exact tune to play, how long to play and in what specific way it should be played. Let’s start at the beginning.
There are twelve different notes in the note scale, reaching from C to B. After those 12 notes, the scale repeats itself, just one octave higher. The scale consists of true notes and half notes. The sign “#” shows that the note, for example c, is raised half a tune and is called c sharp, which lets a c sound half a tune higher. The same goes in the other direction with a “b” sign next to a note, also the c, called c flat, lowers the sound of a note by half a tune. So following this a “d flat” is actually the same sound as a “c flat”. So when the distance between c and c sharp is a half tune, this means that a whole octave equals 12 half tune steps. So after 12 half tune steps, the same note gets played, just sounds an octave higher. So a “c” played an octave higher is named “c1”.

Notes also come with values, which show the duration of a note. Basically, how long a note needs to be played by a musician. This length is measured in beats. Imagine it like a drum beating one time. The pace of this drum beating can be set by the musician or the composer of the piece the musician is playing. As shown in the picture above, if a note is only a circle, without a line and without being filled with black, the note is four beats long, also called a “whole note”. If you add to this a line, a neck , the notes duration is halved and counts two beats, called a “half note”. Keep all of that and fill the circle with black and you have got yourself a “quarter note” that counts for one beat.
Take all of that and add a flag to the note as shown above and the duration of the note turns to half a quarter note and is called a “eight note”. If two or more of those notes are written next to each other the flag might turn into a note bar, the thick black line that is connecting notes in the picture above. It means the same and is just another way to write it. A second flag or bar turns the duration to half a eight note and the name of the note to “sixteenth note”. A third flag or bar as seen in the picture makes the duration half a sixteenth note and the name to “thirty-second note”.

Of course there is much more to know about notes, like special signs and the lines where they are written down, the keys that change the name and sound of a note completely, but for the start and for a beginner this article holds enough information to put in and learn.