How To Sight Read Music

David Jones on May 5th, 2012

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 [...]

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David Jones on August 12th, 2011

Continuation of the free music lesson we started the other day to help you learn to read music form fast and easy… Melodies and complementing phrases mark larger sections of a composition.  Composers build pieces from these sections by repeating them, varying them, or contrasting them with new material.  Some patterns of repetition and contrast [...]

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