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About Numbered Notation

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  1. The numbers are the notes of a scale
  2. “1=C” tells you where to start
  3. Dots make a note higher or lower
  4. How long each note lasts
  5. 0 means rest
  6. Bar lines and the time signature
  7. Curves: ties and slurs
  8. The words sit under the numbers
  9. Repeat signs and 1. 2. endings
  10. Minor keys: “6=A”
  11. Put it together: a line of a hymn
  12. Check yourself
  13. Try it on a hymn

The numbers are the notes of a scale

Numbered notation (jianpu, 简谱) writes a melody as numbers instead of notes on a staff. You do not need to read music: take one small step at a time and press Play on any example to hear it while each number lights up. Sound only starts when you press Play.

Instead of notes on a staff, each note is a number from 1 to 7. They are the seven steps of the scale you already know: do re mi fa sol la ti. After 7 the scale starts again at 1.

The seven numbers with their names. Press Play and say each name as its number lights up.
Sing along: do re mi fa sol, and back down to do.

If you can sing do re mi, you can already sing every number from 1 to 7. Tap or click any number to hear just that note.

“1=C” tells you where to start

At the top left of the sheet you will see something like 1=C. It means the number 1 (do) is the note C, and every other number counts up from there. 1=G means do is G, so the whole tune sits a little higher. Nothing else changes: the same numbers make the same shape, only higher or lower.

1=C: do is C.
1=G: the same numbers, starting higher.

Not sure where C is? On a piano it is the white key just left of the two black keys. Or ignore the letter and start on any note that is comfortable for your voice: the tune only has to keep its shape. The − and + key buttons on a hymn page shift the key for you.

Dots make a note higher or lower

A dot above a number means one octave higher. A dot below means one octave lower. Two dots mean two octaves. No dot is the middle range, where most of a tune lives. The name stays the same; only the height changes.

The same number at three heights: dot below, no dot, dot above.
A tune that climbs: it starts on a low sol and ends on a high do.

How long each note lasts

Tap your foot at a steady pace: each tap is a beat. A plain number lasts one beat, so you sing a new number on every tap. Dashes, lines and dots change that.

A plain number is one beat

Four numbers, four beats: one number for each tap.

A dash holds the note longer

Each dash adds one beat. The 5 lasts two beats and the 3 lasts four.

A line underneath makes it shorter

One line is half a beat, so two underlined numbers share one beat. (Two lines are a quarter of a beat.)

A dot after makes it half as long again

A dot after a number adds half its length. The first 5 lasts a beat and a half, and the short 3 fills the rest of the second beat.

0 means rest

A 0 is silence for one beat. Keep counting and keep tapping, but do not sing. Dashes after a 0 make the silence longer, just as they hold a note longer.

Sing 1 3 5, stay quiet for one beat, then come back down. Rests light up too, so you can feel the pause.

Bar lines and the time signature

Tall lines cut the music into bars, each holding the same number of beats. The two small numbers at the start, like 4/4 or 3/4, say how many: 4/4 is four beats in every bar, 3/4 is three. The first beat of each bar is the strongest, so lean on it a little. A double line with a thick edge marks the end.

4/4: count 1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4. The first beat of each bar sounds a little louder.
3/4: count 1 2 3, 1 2 3, the lilt of a waltz.

Curves: ties and slurs

A curve over numbers joins them. If it joins two of the same number, it is a tie: sing the note once and hold it for both. If it joins different numbers, it is a slur: sing them all on one syllable, gliding from one to the next.

A tie: the 5 is sung once and held across the bar line, six beats in all.
A slur: “Him” is sung on two notes, 3 then 2.

The words sit under the numbers

Each number gets one syllable, written right underneath it. A short dash after part of a word means the word carries on under the next number. If a number has nothing under it, it belongs to a curve or a dash: keep singing the syllable you are on.

Read left to right, one syllable for each number: Twin-kle, twin-kle, lit-tle star.

Repeat signs and 1. 2. endings

A bar line with two dots, :|, means go back and sing that part again, from the matching |: sign (or from the start if there is none). Sometimes the repeat has two endings. Sing ending 1. the first time; on the repeat, skip it and sing ending 2. instead.

Play it: you hear the 1. ending, the repeat, then the 2. ending. Watch the highlight jump back.

Minor keys: “6=A”

A song in a minor key, which usually sounds more serious or tender, is labeled like 6=A instead of 1=C. It means the number 6 (la) is the home note, here A. The numbers keep their usual names; the tune simply feels at home on 6 and often ends there. 6=A uses the same notes as 1=C.

It starts and ends on 6 (la), the home note. Listen to the darker colour.

Put it together: a line of a hymn

This is the first line of hymn 8, “Praise God, from whom all blessings flow”, written in numbered notation. Try the slow tempo first, and sing the words as each number lights up.

1=G in 4/4. Three silent beats, then “Praise” on beat 4. The dots under 7, 6 and 5 mean those notes dip one octave lower.

Check yourself

Four quick questions, with no score and no pressure. Tap an answer to see right away why it is right or wrong. You can always try another answer.

Tap the number that is held the longest.

Tap the 5 that is one octave higher than the first 5.

What does a 0 mean?

Under 1=G, which note is the number 1?

Try it on a hymn

You opened this from a hymn that has a Numbered view, so you can try it right now.

  1. Look at the top left of the sheet: the key, such as 1=D, and the time signature, such as 3/4.
  2. Find the first number and sing it. Then follow the numbers from left to right with the words underneath, one syllable for each number. Press Play in the player to hear the recording while you follow.
  3. Letters above the numbers (C, G7) are chords for a guitarist or pianist. Ignore them while you learn the tune.
  4. To be guided, open the Learn tab and press Play. Under Display, set Learn notation to Numbered (or choose Numbered on the Lead Sheet tab first). For hymns that have numbered lines, each line of numbers scrolls into view in time with the recording while a bouncing ball follows the words; other hymns show the piano notation there. The Speed menu slows it down.

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Now the Triune God has come to dwell within

Fullness of the Spirit As the Indwelling Spirit

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Now the Triune God has come to dwell within
As the wonderful Spirit in us.
We are mingled with the Lord, we’re one with Him
As the life-giving Spirit in us.
 
Oh, He’s the wonderful Spirit in us,
He’s the wonderful Spirit in us!
God is in the Son, the Son’s the Spirit now—
He’s the wonderful Spirit in us!
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“Abba Father” is the cry from deep within
From the wonderful Spirit in us.
’Tis the Spirit of the Son who cries to Him
As the life-giving Spirit in us.
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Jesus Christ the Lord is living now in us
As the wonderful Spirit within.
He has been transfigured, we enjoy Him thus,
As the life-giving Spirit within.
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Now the Spirit of reality is here
As the wonderful Spirit within.
Now the things of Christ are all so real and clear
By the life-giving Spirit within.
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We will all stir up this gift that’s deep within
As the wonderful Spirit in us.
When we call “Lord Jesus” how our spirits spring
With this life-giving Spirit in us!

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P L

Rochester, Mn, United States

Nov 12, 2025

Amen .. Amen

Praise The Lord ..!!!

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Un Hermano

Sep 12, 2025

TRANSFORMATION BY THE

FLOWING OF THE TRIUNE GOD

Being put into the Triune God is not a small matter. It implies that we are prepared and positioned to let God come into us. The more the Triune God gets into us, the more He transforms us.

The best illustration of transformation is petrified wood. The water flows through the wood to carry away the essence of the wood and to replace it with the element of minerals from the water. In this way the wood is petrified, transformed. Hallelujah, we all have been put into the Triune God! Now the Triune God as the living water is flowing in, through, and out of us. As He flows through us, He carries away our “wooden” substance and brings in His golden essence. In this way we are transformed.

TRANSFORMATION BEING

FOR THE BUILDING

This transformation is for the building. Recently, some brothers and sisters have asked me how they can be built up. To be built does not mean to love one another in a natural way—that is to be one not in the Spirit but in the flesh and in the natural life. This is absolutely wrong. The way to be built is to be transformed. Our natural element must be carried away. Although I may never embrace a certain brother or love him according to the natural, religious concept, he and I may be fully built together by having our natural element carried away and replaced by God’s golden essence. As this golden essence, the building factor, permeates both of us, we are built together.

The Lord Jesus builds the church first by baptizing us into the Triune God. By being immersed in the Triune God, we are positioned to drink of Him. First Corinthians 12:13 says, “In one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and were all given to drink one Spirit. ” Then as we daily drink of the Spirit as the divine water, He flows within us, and this flow of the divine life carries away our natural life, our “wooden” nature, and replaces it with God’s golden essence.

Never think that hugging one another and loving one another in an outward way is a sign of the building. No, that is not the building. The building is the oneness in the golden nature. The more we are transformed, the more we shall be built up. If we have not been transformed, even our love is a kind of “honey. ” Shallow, superficial Christians think that this type of love is oneness. No, this is not oneness. Oneness means that the pure golden essence of the Triune God is wrought into our being to replace our “wooden” element. This is the way the Lord builds us into the church. May we all see it! Forget what you have gleaned from your background and what you have understood according to your natural concept. We need to see the heavenly light.

THE LORD’S PRAYER FOR

THE ONENESS OF THE BELIEVERS

In John 17 the Lord prayed that the believers would be one. John 17:21-23 says, “That they all may be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us; that the world may believe that You have sent Me. And the glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as We are one; I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected into one. ” It is difficult to recite or remember these verses because the concept here absolutely transcends our natural understanding. According to the Lord’s word in these verses, we are to be one even as the Father and the Son are one. Here the Lord prayed in this way: “That they all may be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us. ” Oneness means that we, the believers, are all in the “Us. ” This “Us” is the Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. Real oneness is the oneness in the Triune God.

John 17:22 says, “The glory which You have given Me I have given to them. ” The glory which the Father has given the Son is the sonship with the Father’s life and divine nature (5:26) to express the Father in His fullness (1:18; 14:9; Col. 2:9; Heb. 1:3). The Son has given this glory to His believers so that they also may have the sonship with the Father’s life and divine nature (John 17:2; 2 Pet. 1:4) to express the Father in the Son in His fullness (John 1:16). This concept is far beyond our natural thought. It is easy to grasp the idea of loving one another. However, it is difficult to define glory. Glory is the sonship with the life and nature of God to express the Father in His fullness. True oneness is in this glory. This oneness is deep and profound. In it there is no ground or room for the self or the natural life. During the past nineteen centuries, the Lord has been desiring to have this oneness among the believers.

John 17:23 says, “I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected into one. ” I doubt that anyone today understands what it means to be perfected into one. If I asked the leading brothers in this area if they are truly one, they would have to admit, because much of their being has not yet been transformed, that they are only one to a certain degree. But they are on the way of being perfected into one. To be perfected is to be “petrified, ” transformed, that is, to have your natural essence carried away and replaced by the divine essence. This is the way to be perfected into one. This oneness cannot be found even between most husbands and wives. But the Lord Jesus prayed for it, and we are in the process of attaining it.

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Chapter 10 (LSM)
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Emman Ramos

Burlingame, CA, United States

Aug 24, 2025

Praise the Lord! He’s the wonderful spirit in us!

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Melissa

United States

Jul 6, 2025

Praise the Lord! The Son is the Spirit now!

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Nicole Ho

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Jun 1, 2025

He’s now the wonderful life-giving Spirit in us.

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Jim Smith

Mansfield, Ohio, United States

Mar 29, 2025

I was reading these verses this morning and they brought me to this song.

John 14: 16-17 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name…

I believe Watchman Nee emphasized the subject of the indwelling Christ and Brother Lee amplified it. God is now the wonderful Spirit in us. Sadly this truth is preached very little these days. It must be Satan’s work to mask God’s work which is totally a matter of the Spirit working in our spirit. This operation of the Spirit working in our spirit is the basis of our whole Christian life and is how we relate to God. It establishes our loving relationship with God. He as the Spirit makes God real to us! Yes, the reality has come!

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Kyambadde Livingstone

Uganda

Jan 12, 2025

What a wonderful spirit in us

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Maria L

Fremont, California, United States

Dec 6, 2024

Oh Lord, we love You as the Spirit! What a wonderful Spirit we have in our spirit! Hallelujah! The Triune God has come to dwell in us as the wonderful, life-giving Spirit in us! Lord, keep us turning to our spirit so that we may enjoy You as the consummated Spirit today!

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James Smith

Mansfield, Ohio, United States

Sep 6, 2024

NOW The triune God has come to dwell with in. (John 14:23 NIV) And Jesus answered him and said “If any man loves me he will keep my word, and the Father will love him and WE will come to him and make OUR home with Him”. God could only do this by the Spirit that who transmits God to us. All three persons operate as one triune God. Now because of the Spirit’s work, all believers can have God as their all in all!

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Melissa

United States

Mar 17, 2024

He’s the wonderful Spirit!

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