When learning how to read music, meter is no doubt one of the first lessons you’ll need to learn, in the next few posts we’re going to be learning about simple and compound time… A main feature of western music is its meter, a repeating pattern of pulses with a regular accent pattern. Music has [...]
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To start this lesson, go back and look at the previous music lessons. This is the final lesson in a series to help you learn to read music form, or more proper English I suppose would be musical form. In learning musical form, you can follow the last examples and lessons to help you in [...]
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Here’s a great video music lesson I just saw. If you want to learn how to read music it will help you – it’s a basic lesson just covering music notes, the staff and the treble clef. Serious music students can further their music education by visiting Speedy Music Reading, apparently the provider of this video. [...]
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Another free lesson on musical form in this “Everything You Want to Know About Learning to Read Music” series… (continuation from the last post) Binary and ternary forms have served composers as basic structures for numerous compositions. These forms can also become the building blocks for more elaborate musical structures. In theme and variation form, [...]
When you learn to read music, no doubt eventually you’ll need to learn various musical forms. Here’s a lesson to help you in learning to read music with binary form. Binary form has the sense of each smaller musical unit developing into a larger one. The opening motive initiates the first phrase then expands to [...]