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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on October 27th, 2009

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 [...]

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on September 22nd, 2009

Picking right back up where we left off from yesteday’s post called “Learn to Read Music on the Bass Clef”:   The music notes that fall on spaces in the bass clef are A-C-E-G.  “All Cars Eat Gas” is the saying to remember the bass clef spaces.  (If you like cows better than cars, use [...]

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