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Learn to Read Music Accidentals

David Jones — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:07:35 +0000

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 step
Natural -

These are the musical symbols that are seen most often. Look through some sheet music and see if you can find these or any others. Or checkout this how to read sheet music program.

This cancels out a sharp or a flat and returns the note to its natural form.
Double Sharp - X Raise the note by 2 half steps
Double Flat – bb Lower the note by 2 half steps

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Learn to Read Music on the Bass Clef 2

David Jones — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:08:29 +0000

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 “All Cows Eat Grass”)

The music notes on the bass clef lines are G-B-D-F-A. The sentence we use to remember the lines is, “Good Boys Do Fine Always”.

If you can think of your own sentences to help you remember the note names, go ahead and use them. The most important thing is that as you get more comfortable reading the notes you learn to read music instinctively and naturally. It takes a bit of time to get comfortable bit in time your subconcious recognizes and picks up the information fairly quickly (especially if you’re using a good music reading program)

Andrew Bird didn’t Learn to Read Music… Should You?

David Jones — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:13:04 +0000

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 all those instruments. “I was just learning it all by ear, absorbing it rather than learning to read. I never learned to read music.” Bird learned to play difficult classical and jazz pieces by ear.

That’s impressive! It really is, but not being able to read music ensures you’ll never be able to play in a large band or orchestra unless all the other more capable and talented musicians have to “dumb down” their ability to the one who can’t read music. So my suggestion is that all musicians should learn to read music. It doesn’t have to be as long or as slow a process as you think. Check out this How to Read Music Program for proof!

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