David Jones on October 29th, 2009

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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David Jones on October 19th, 2009

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 [...]

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David Jones on October 13th, 2009

When you start learning to read music, you’ll sound discover there are quite a few miscellaneous symbols in music that aren’t music notes. (Don’t confuse musical symbols with musical cymbals) Cymbals are those big round metal plates that are crashed together. Haha, just a quick music joke. Anyway, back to the serious business of helping you learn to [...]

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