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How to Make Musical Notes on a Computer Keyboard

If you are musically inclined, you may want to add musical symbols to certain text documents. At first glance, you won't see any musical signs on a standard computer keyboard. However, you can create musical symbols through a combination of specific keystrokes. The notes that you can create are an eighth note and a set of connected eighth notes. Eighth notes are common rhythmic musical notations.

Instructions

    • 1

      Click on the space on a document or Web page into which you wish to insert the symbol.

    • 2

      Press "Num Lock" on your computer's numerical keyboard to turn on the number lock function.

    • 3

      Press the "Alt" key on either side of the space bar and hold down the button.

    • 4

      Type the number "1" and the number "3" while continuing to press "Alt" in order to create a single eighth note.

    • 5

      Hold down "Alt" and type the number "1" followed by the number "4" to create a set of connected eighth notes.

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