What is standard music notation?

Answer 1

It is, world-wide, the most accepted way of notating conventional western music (both pop/rock and Classical Music). In contrast to standard methods there are many new, contemporary ways of notating complex music (often a composer creates their own notation system) that may not be possible in standard music notation. Standard notation can give the musician information like: What instrument to play on, what note to play, how long that note is to be played, how soft or loud to play, what kind of playing technique to use, what mood to convey, when not to play, etc. For specifics regarding notation go online and find tutorials on how to read music as this can not be covered in a short post here.