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The Western music notation is considered as the standard music notation of the world. However, it is complicated.
This site was developed to introduce a simple, intuitive music notation system designed to help beginners read and play music more quickly. :
or "3JCN" for short.
Imagine you’ve never touched a piano and know nothing about Western music notation.
Could you look at the “Twinkle, Twinkle” sheet on the left and play it? — Of course not!
But with the simple 3JCN music sheet on the right, you can start playing the song within minutes.
Give it a try yourself using the Virtual Piano below!
Look at the following picture to know where are notes "a, b, c, d, e, f, g" located.
Imagine that c1 means note c lasts 1 second, g2 means note g lasts 2 seconds.
Click the picture to play the song by yourself (play with mouse click on virtual piano)
(By 3JCN default, we don't need to write number "6" in the front or on superscript of all notes in the middle octave.)
