Ok so you want to learn to read music? Ear training and sight singing can play an important piece, no matter what part of your musical journey you’re on… Learning to identify musical intervals takes patience and practice over time, but the payoff is worth the effort. Your understanding of music in general expands, [...]
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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 [...]