Braille Music Editor
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With a screen reader: press Tab until you reach “Braille keyboard” and type with F D S J K L; every confirmed cell is read aloud.

Lesson 2 — Note values

Notes, rests, dots, octaves and accidentals

Braille notes are letters you already know. d e f g h i j are C D E F G A B as eighth notes (quavers). To change the value you add the lower dots, following the same logic as the series of the alphabet: +6 quarter notes (crotchets), +3 half notes (minims), +3 6 whole notes (semibreves). Rests have four cells of their own, one for each value. Press the keys to find the symbol in the table, or click a symbol to see it in the large cell.

Current cell

sdot 3ddot 2fdot 1 jdot 4kdot 5ldot 6

The matching symbol lights up in the table.
SPACE or BACKSPACE clears the cell.

The meaning depends on the context. The same cell d (dots 1 4 5) is the letter d in a text, the digit 4 after the numeric indicator, and C eighth note in music. Each value also stands for a smaller one (eighth or 128th, quarter or 64th, half or 32nd, whole or 16th): the measure tells you which.

Notes and rests

Signs written before or after the note

The cell

sdot 3ddot 2fdot 1 jdot 4kdot 5ldot 6

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Your turn

The cell

sdot 3ddot 2fdot 1 jdot 4kdot 5ldot 6

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Your turn

The cell

sdot 3ddot 2fdot 1 jdot 4kdot 5ldot 6

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Your turn

The cell

sdot 3ddot 2fdot 1 jdot 4kdot 5ldot 6

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Your turn

The cell

sdot 3ddot 2fdot 1 jdot 4kdot 5ldot 6

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Your turn

The cell

sdot 3ddot 2fdot 1 jdot 4kdot 5ldot 6

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Your turn

The cell

sdot 3ddot 2fdot 1 jdot 4kdot 5ldot 6

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Your turn

Write freely: the page recognizes what you have written, draws it on the staff and plays it back to you. Remember the rule: the first note always has an octave mark; after that, no mark within a third, for a fourth or fifth only if the octave changes, always from a sixth upwards. The page flags this for you in orange.

Current cell

sdot 3ddot 2fdot 1 jdot 4kdot 5ldot 6

SPACE confirms · SPACE on an empty cell = space (bar line)
BACKSPACE (or ← arrow) deletes

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Braille written

Staff

Write an octave mark and a note to see the staff.

Recognized elements

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    Transcribe into braille what you see on the staff. Each cell is checked straight away (green is right, red is wrong, BACKSPACE to correct). The space between measures is written with an empty cell (SPACE).
    
  
    
  
    
    
    
      
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        sdot 3ddot 2fdot 1
        
        jdot 4kdot 5ldot 6
      
    
      
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    Your transcription