Sometimes you’ll have an equal amount of notes that are higher or lower than the middle line – in that case, again, it’s your call! The stems can go up or down at your discretion. Even if you have some stragglers who would normally have a stem going in a different direction from the rest of their group, they all get lumped in together. And vice versa if the notes are above the middle line. If most of the notes are below the middle line, then the stems would collectively go up – simple as that. Are most of the stems below the middle line, or above the middle line? In this case, you follow the law of averages. Sometimes, you have 8 th notes linked together. It’s your call! Linking 8th notes and 16th notesīut note stem direction isn’t always as simple as that. What about when the note is on the middle line? The stem can go up or down. There’s room for the stem in that direction. And then once you get past the middle, and you’re in the upper part of the staff, the stem goes down – again, it’s logical. It’s just basic logic – there’s much more room for an up-stem here. When you’re below the middle line, the stems go up. If there’s just a single melody line, it’s actually super-easy. Instead, let’s talk about how to literally write notes on the music staff.įirst of all, when stems are going up, it’s on the right side. And when stems are going down, they’re on the left side like so:īut how do you determine when you need to draw an up-stem or a down-stem?
This video doesn’t get into songwriting in the general sense – we’ll go there another day. Today’s video is a pretty straight-forward and simple one, but it’s something I see done wrong all the time – and that is note stem direction.Īs musicians, we read a lot of music, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we know how to notate it.
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