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NOTUS for OTHER INSTRUMENTS than piano.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n NOTUS Music Notation is not only for piano, but for all instruments. NOTUS started with piano because it was deemed the most logical instrument to use, with its 7-octave range and the fact that it can be played with both hands.<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n NOTUS has assessed which other instruments would benefit from a NOTUS correction. For example, a NOTUS variation has been created for the notation of the \u2018contemporary drum kit<\/strong><\/span>\u2019. In NOTUS, up to 17 drum parts can be notated on the same staff … A very large number, allowing the full notation of the drum kit.<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n A very simple and clear notation has also been devised for accordion <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b>(both hands) <\/span>in collaboration with two professional accordionists. [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ specialty_columns=”2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_row_inner _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” width=”600px” max_width=”600px” custom_margin=”0px||0px|-28px|false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Assistant|700|||||||” text_text_color=”#DB256B” text_font_size=”35px” text_line_height=”1.1em” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||25px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n THE NEW DIDACTICS OF PIANO WITH NOTUS IN DETAIL. [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.3″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Assistant||||||||” text_text_color=”#DB256B” text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”justified” custom_padding=”||0px|||” inline_fonts=”Assistant” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 In contrast to studying with conventional music notation, where learning to read pitch takes years and often hinders the study of music and instruments, with NOTUS mastering the piano keyboard and all its notes is FINISHED within THE FIRST 3 to 4 MONTHS of study<\/span><\/em>. From there, things continue very smoothly with a rapid evolution that delights both the pupil and the teacher.<\/span><\/p>\n This specific didactic approach to \u2018NOTUS in 3 to 4 months<\/span>\u2019 is the subject of the NOTUS PIANO FOUNDATION textbook<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. In NOTUS, only seven notes on three staff lines need to be learned \u2013 i.e. one \u2018octave group\u2019 \u2013 regardless of the octave pitch. This facilitates the principle of \u2018note-by-note learning\u2019, while the practice of that note remains anchored on its fixed piano key position across all octave groups. The automatic result is an immediate understanding of the keyboard layout. Week 1<\/strong><\/span>: only the note E and exercises using the 7 piano keys representing E in all octaves.<\/span> The pupil is now familiar with all the notes and piano keys, the foundations of music theory and the foundational rhythms 2\/4, 3\/4 and 4\/4. Now the pupil can concentrate on the other musical aspects and refinements offered by NOTUS Music Notation. This is the subject of the NOTUS PIANO Textbooks 1, 2, etc. A new book to study, PIANO TEXTBOOK 1<\/span><\/a>, is on the way. Its 100 pages have been adapted to encourage the playing of all the notes and keys of the piano keyboard. In this textbook, the focus is on better piano technique, playing accents, correct dynamics, articulation and interpretation<\/span>. Textbook 1 can be used for 6 to 8 months, depending on the development and commitment of the student. During the third trimester of the first year, simple four-handed piano is also introduced, which allows the students to enter a whole new world of music once again. This is followed by NOTUS PIANO Textbook 2<\/span><\/a>, etc. An edition with pieces for piano four hands is also available. [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.3″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Assistant||||||||” text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”1.3em” width=”330px” max_width=”330px” custom_margin=”0px|0px|20px|60px|false|false” custom_padding=”126px|20px|||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Not enough musical scores to play?<\/span> Currently (July 2023) there are about 500 pages of NOTUS piano literature<\/strong><\/span>, of which 300 are compositions (list of composers and compositions HERE<\/a><\/span>), 60 simple four-handed piano pieces, 70 pages of specific exercises and 70 pages of music theory, including all major and minor scales and their fingering. And there are free blank staves and a transcription guideline<\/strong> (as part ot the free download package) available if one wants to transcribe or compose a specific piece oneself.<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/notus.world\/en\/shop-free-download\/#download-pakket” url_new_window=”on” button_text=”to the download page” button_alignment=”left” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_button=”on” button_text_color=”#000000″ button_bg_use_color_gradient=”on” button_bg_color_gradient_direction=”145deg” button_bg_color_gradient_stops=”#db578a 0%|#ffdbdb 63%” button_bg_color_gradient_start=”#db578a” button_bg_color_gradient_end=”#ffdbdb” button_bg_color_gradient_end_position=”63%” button_border_width=”0px” button_border_radius=”0px” button_letter_spacing=”0.4px” button_font=”Assistant|600|||||||” button_icon=”||divi||400″ button_icon_color=”#DB256B” custom_margin=”-39px|-86px||67px|false|false” custom_padding=”3px|||||” animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”right” animation_delay=”1850ms” button_text_shadow_style=”preset2″ button_text_shadow_color=”#FFFFFF” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ global_colors_info=”{%22gcid-d4dc9141-2436-4b61-86e7-4258b8465793%22:%91%93,%22gcid-0bfeaa08-0413-493a-933a-346149856711%22:%91%93}” button_text__hover_enabled=”on|hover” button_text_color__hover_enabled=”on|hover” button_text_color__hover=”#DB256B” button_text__hover=”to the download page”][\/et_pb_button][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” width=”310px” max_width=”310px” custom_margin=”36px|14px|12px|60px|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Assistant||||||||” text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”1.3em” width=”330px” max_width=”330px” custom_margin=”0px|0px||60px|false|false” custom_padding=”|20px|||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n What about MICROTONES and ethnic music?<\/span> Ethnic music with microtones cannot be notated with sufficient detail using the non-standardized conventional signs for quarter tones and three-quarter tones. Ethnic music converted to conventional musical notation is therefore always a weak derivative of the richness of tones in ethnic compositions or folk music and does ethnic music an injustice.<\/span><\/p>\n In NOTUS, clear and logical derivatives of the FLAT- and SHARP-noteheads have been created to allow easy notation down to a 1\/8 tone.<\/strong> The wealth of tones in ethnic music can therefore be notated in more detail and accuracy. NOTUS microtonal notation can of course also be used for Western microtonal compositions.<\/span><\/p>\n Would you like to know more about the NOTUS microtonal notation? Contact us:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>info@notus.world<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-30px||||false|false” custom_padding=”101px||16px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#DB256B” width=”100%” max_width=”1280px” module_alignment=”center” min_height=”120px” height=”120px” max_height=”120px” custom_margin=”-39px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][dsm_typing_effect typing_effect=”WHAT are people saying about NOTUS? 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It\u2019s enriched my life significantly. An hour of piano every day after breakfast has become an enjoyable ritual. [\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial portrait_url=”https:\/\/notus.world\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/metronoom-partituur.png” quote_icon_color=”#DB256B” quote_icon_background_color=”#F6E4A9″ portrait_width=”170px” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” body_font=”Assistant||||||||” body_text_align=”center” body_text_color=”#DB256B” body_font_size=”18px” body_line_height=”1.4em” author_font=”Assistant|700|||||||” author_text_align=”center” position_font=”Assistant|700|||||||” position_font_size=”18px” company_font=”Assistant||||||||” background_color=”#efd283″ text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”40px||||false|false” custom_padding=”|20px||20px|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Sabine R. \u2014 age 57<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n composer \/ teacher \/ pianist<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n With 30 years of experience in adult education, I was very interested to work on the music-pedagogical research project on NOTUS. 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In NOTUS, the notation is written in octave groups that are consistent whatever the [\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial portrait_url=”https:\/\/notus.world\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/beeld_getuigenissen_leerlingen.png” quote_icon_color=”#1D58AB” quote_icon_background_color=”#F6E4A9″ portrait_width=”170px” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” body_font=”Assistant||||||||” body_text_align=”center” body_text_color=”#1D58AB” body_font_size=”18px” body_line_height=”1.4em” author_font=”Assistant|700|||||||” author_text_align=”center” position_font=”Assistant||||||||” position_font_size=”18px” company_font=”Assistant||||||||” background_color=”#F6E4A9″ text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”38px||||false|false” custom_padding=”|30px||30px|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Tania\u00a0 D. B. \u2014 age 59 \u2014 designer<\/strong><\/p>\n 3rd year \u2018PIANO with NOTUS\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Following an accident, I was left with a brain injury and sought to use music in my rehabilitation, as it is known that music stimulates the brain in many ways.<\/p>\n Thanks to its consistent internal logic, NOTUS is quick to learn: I was able to play a piece from Erik Satie\u2019s Enfantines after just one year at the piano. The following year I practised Satie\u2019s Gymnop\u00e9die nr. 2 and many other pieces. With my slower-working brain, I prefer beautiful, slow piano pieces or pieces for one hand.<\/p>\n Without NOTUS I would certainly have given up long ago because I would not have been able to learn the technical side of an instrument and master the complex conventional notation at the same time.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_testimonial portrait_url=”https:\/\/notus.world\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/beeld_getuigenissen_leerlingen.png” quote_icon_color=”#1D58AB” quote_icon_background_color=”#F6E4A9″ portrait_width=”170px” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” body_font=”Assistant||||||||” body_text_align=”center” body_text_color=”#1D58AB” body_font_size=”18px” body_line_height=”1.4em” author_font=”Assistant|700|||||||” author_text_align=”center” position_font=”Assistant||||||||” position_font_size=”18px” company_font=”Assistant||||||||” background_color=”#F6E4A9″ text_orientation=”center” custom_padding=”|25px|12px|25px|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Kathleen T. \u2014 age 68 \u2014 retiree<\/strong><\/p>\n 1st year \u2018PIANO with NOTUS\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n I chose to try NOTUS Music Notation because with conventional notation I was obliged to follow lessons together with children and at their pace. With NOTUS Music Notation [\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial portrait_url=”https:\/\/notus.world\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/metronoom-partituur.png” quote_icon_color=”#DB256B” quote_icon_background_color=”#F6E4A9″ portrait_width=”170px” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” body_font=”Assistant||||||||” body_text_align=”center” body_text_color=”#DB256B” body_font_size=”18px” body_line_height=”1.4em” author_font=”Assistant|700|||||||” author_text_align=”center” position_font=”Assistant|700|||||||” position_font_size=”18px” company_font=”Assistant||||||||” background_color=”#f4da84″ text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”52px||||false|false” custom_padding=”|25px||25px|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Daniel V. \u2014 age 24<\/strong><\/p>\n pianist \/ teacher<\/strong><\/p>\n I teach piano according to the NOTUS method. Because the very clear notation on three staff lines remains the same across the whole keyboard, there are only seven basic notes to learn. It is also true that second and third year students rarely make reading errors with NOTUS. 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This can be used for both chromatic accordion or Stradella Bass accordion. If you want to know more about drum or accordion notation, please contact us<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>: info@notus.world<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/span>This is not possible with the conventional five-line notation as there are simply too many staff positions to learn and its notation does not reflect the repeating octave pattern. The \u2018note-by-note learning principle<\/span>\u2019 in NOTUS piano didactics is combined with the gradual inclusion of the necessary music theory (see left for how this is developed in the NOTUS PIANO FOUNDATION textbook).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span>Week 2<\/strong><\/span>: the note G and its 7 corresponding piano keys in all octaves, plus exercises covering both E and G.<\/span>
<\/span>Week 3+4<\/strong><\/span>: the note C and its 8 corresponding piano keys in all octaves, plus exercises and pieces using notes from the first chord C-E-G.<\/span>
<\/span>Week 5+6<\/strong><\/span>: the notes D and F and their corresponding piano keys in all octaves, plus exercises in five-finger position and short pieces using the notes C-D-E-F-G.<\/span>
<\/span>Week 7+8+9<\/strong><\/span>: the notes A and B and their corresponding piano keys in all octaves, plus exercises and pieces with the 7 foundational notes in various registers.<\/span>
<\/span>Only once the pupil has become familiar with the seven naturals and their corresponding notes and (white) piano keys, are the semitones introduced together with the FLAT- and SHARPnoteheads and the corresponding (black) piano keys.<\/em><\/span>
<\/span>Week 10+11<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong> theory of semitones, notes and corresponding black keys C-sharp\/D-flat and D-sharp\/E-flat with a number of exercises and short pieces.<\/span>
<\/span>Week 12+13+14<\/strong><\/span>: notes and black keys F-sharp\/G-flat, G-sharp\/A-flat and A-sharp\/B-flat with exercises and short pieces.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
This didactic approach is much simpler, easier and quicker to learn than the much-used, conventional ten finger positions, each with ten notes, that mainly serve to cause confusion and distress in beginners. The reason being that it is only much later that they only get to understand the bigger picture of the repetition of the 7 octaves.<\/span><\/p>\nWhat about after the first 3 to 4 months?<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n
The NOTUS PIANO Textbooks boast a broad study repertoire that is more extensive than conventional notation. With Notus, the student can read notes well and play in all keys (observing the single-symbol FLAT- and SHARPnoteheads used both on the staff and in key signatures), which makes it easier to learn a new piece without fear.<\/span>
The lessons proceed smoothly and positively as both pupil and teacher appreciate the impressive week-by-week progress!
<\/span>Please look at the sample pages of the publications in the webshop and the list of composers and their pieces<\/span><\/a> included in the four NOTUS PIANO Textbooks.<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span><\/b><\/span>Needless to say, <\/span>not all piano scores have been transcribed to NOTUS. But that is far from necessary. People who start <\/span>with <\/span>or switch to NOTUS are beginners. They <\/strong><\/span>much prefer to<\/span> make music with fewer scores <\/span>at their disposal <\/span>than NOT being able to make music despite <\/span>the existence of <\/span>hundreds of thousands of <\/span>impenetrable <\/span>scores in conventional musical notation!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
All this is spread according to difficulty among 4 NOTUS PIANO Study Books (No. 5 in development) and several collections by a composer (Satie, Bellomi, Melcher, Bissoli) and editions with a particular compostion such as \u201cF\u00fcr Elise\u201d by Beethoven. Several pages of literature are added monthly … Discover everything in the shop<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n
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I never thought I could learn at this age what I so wanted to learn when I was younger (but never managed to due to circumstances).
But now I know: I can do it!
Thank you, NOTUS!<\/em><\/p>\n
I now have 2.5 years of practical experience with NOTUS and have adopted this didactic approach in my own teaching.
In the third trimester of the first year, it was surprising to me that the adults were able to play a new piece so well after just one week and with abundant attention being paid to tempo and dynamics.
It\u2019s so straight-forward to decipher a NOTUS score that one ends up with more time to work on issues of musicality. As a teacher I find this especially agreeable.
Having worried that it would be too early to introduce four-hand piano in the first year, it actually proved very successful, with the NOTUS learners responding intuitively to each other.
Such good results in the short term serve to boost the learner\u2019s motivation and their desire to make further progress. This enthusiasm is a fantastic result for NOTUS! As such, I would absolutely recommend NOTUS for people who find conventional notation a limitation.<\/p>\n
reading of the treble clef is not all
that difficult. It\u2019s really the sharps, flats and other symbols \u2013 not to mention the notes suspended above or below the staff \u2013
that make it so difficult.<\/p>\n
pitch. This makes it quick and easy to learn, flattening the learning curve remarkably.
NOTUS is the perfect alternative for those looking for an approach more suited to them or who find the threshold of conventional notation too high.<\/p>\n
I save time and am able to learn notation at the same time as actually playing the piano.
I find NOTUS to be clear, logical and much simpler than conventional notation.<\/p>\n
This considerably reduces the time needed to master the entire piano keyboard.<\/p>\n
This is in contrast to conventional notation, where reading errors are common in the first years.
Looking back on my own training, during the first year we were forced to limit ourselves to the middle register of the piano.
Everything beyond that contained too much information for a beginner.
This difficult information was gradually learned over several years. As a result, a lot of repertoire remained closed for a long time.
First-year NOTUS learners do not experience this hindrance and after three months can already read and play all white keys in all registers with competence.<\/p>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n