Reading Musical Notes
Here’s a continuation from the “Learn to Read Music” lesson series about learning new sheet music pieces that you want to play and read with ease. If you missed the last lesson start there, then…. The next step is to set and understand your goals in learning your new piece of sheet music. There are [...]
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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Learn to Read Music Time Signatures Final Lesson! Of course, there are some other time signatures that aren’t seen as frequently. There are two time signatures that aren’t numeric. The symbol c means, “common time”, which is the same as 4/4 time. The symbol C means “cut time”. In cut time, each not is [...]
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Learn to Read Music – Time Signatures and Counting Look at any piece of music and you’ll most likely see a fraction at the beginning of the piece. This is called the time signature. Some of the more common time signatures are 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4. These three time signatures have 4 as the bottom [...]