How To Read Music Notes

David Jones on November 24th, 2011

Here’s a great lesson to help you learn to read music – it’s especially helpful for piano players and people who want to learn how to play piano. This video covers the names of the keys on the piano ranging from C to B as well as natural notes and accidentals. Also covered is what’s called [...]

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David Jones on November 18th, 2011

Here’s another great video music lesson I just saw to help you learn to read music. As you’re developing musically you’ll need to learn music notes and meter before too long. If the beat is divided into two the meter is simple, if divided into three it is compound. If each measure is divided into [...]

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Stacy M asked: I play the piano, but know very little about reading music. I want to be able to play the really complicated classical pieces, which I know takes years of practice and dedication. I need a true pianist for this question. If I start learning to play by ONLY reading the sheet music, [...]

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David Jones on October 10th, 2011

We’re now (finally!) at the end of this music lesson to help you learn to read music meter. From the above, we can summarize that the difference between simple and compound time is how the beat or pulse is divided:  either into two parts or three parts respectively.  In addition, we can see that in [...]

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Lynn asked: I have started learning to read music on the piano, and im having trouble understanding what key to hit on the keyboard in relation to the notes. I understand all the notes that are actually ON the staff like FACE and EGBDF, but the keys that are below and above the staffs with [...]

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