Earlier as I finished working on a post for my learn to read music blog, I read an interesting article about Andrew Byrd, a popular touring musician. He plays guitar, voilin, guitar, a few horns and a number of other intstruments. He’s a very talented musician. He said something interesting about learning music and learning [...]
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As you learn to read music you’ll quickly begin seeing a number of symbols that at first look quite strange, these are called accidentals. Here are the accidentals and what they mean to your music reading: Flat – b Lower the note by one half step Sharp – # Raise the note by one half [...]
Back for the next music reading lesson… Sometimes an accidental is written in the very beginning of a piece of music between the clef sign and the time signature. There may even be a bunch of them on different lines or spaces. This is called the Key Signature. These accidentals last for the entire [...]
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Tie - When two notes that are the same are joined together by a curved line (kind of like a smile mouth) the note values are added together. This usually happens across a bar line. it looks like this: Repeat Sign - In music, when there are parts that have to [...]
Howdy! (I’m from Texas, what can I say..?) Ok so if you want to learn to read music, how much should you pratice? I’ve heard alot of different answers and too many of them are just plain wrong so I thought I’d tell you my opinion. First, you’ve got to make that you’re using exercises [...]
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