Apple GarageBand 2.0 - Manual (Page 58)

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Working In Notation View
You can view and edit Software Instrument regions in
standard music notation format. In the editor’s notation
view, you can edit notes and other musical events,
including adding pedal markings.
About Notation View
In addition to the editor’s graphic “piano roll” view, you can view Software Instrument
regions (both those you record and those from loops) in notation view. In notation
view, the notes in a region are shown as musical notes. Notation view includes other
musical symbols such as rests, staves, clef signs, time signatures, key signatures, and
pedal markings. The following section briefly describes some of these symbols, for
users unfamiliar with music notation.
• Notes: A musical note has several parts, including the note head and stem. The
notehead (the round part of the note) indicates the note’s duration (how long the
note lasts). Notes of shorter duration (shorter than a quarter note) have flags, and
sometimes these notes are joined together by beams. Each note shown below is half
as long as the note to its left (from left to right, the notes are: whole note, half note,
quarter note, and eighth note).
Rests: When reading music while playing, it is as important to know the space between
notes as the notes themselves. The silences between notes are shown by rests. Rests,
like notes, have different symbols for different lengths of time, and shorter rests use
flags.