on January 14th, 2010

Yet another video music lesson today in the series Learn to Read Music Sight Reading series. In this video you’ll learn how to read the bass clef and the treble clef as well as what a musical staff is and how to read it. In Western music notation, the staff (plural is staves) is a set of five lines [...]

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Someone send me a great You Tube video, it’s a free music reading lesson on time signatures. There are two key types of time signatures, simple and compound. Each are explained in this video and are covered thoroughly. Just a quick tip today to help you learn to read music fast and easy. Social Bookmarking

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on December 28th, 2009

When learning how to read music, meter is no doubt one of the first lessons you’ll need to learn, in the next few posts we’re going to be learning about simple and compound time… A main feature of western music is its meter, a repeating pattern of pulses with a regular accent pattern. Music has [...]

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on December 3rd, 2009

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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on November 30th, 2009

Learn to Read Music Fast Musical form refers to the organization and shape of a composition’s elements, giving it a sense of structure and coherence.  Both popular and classical composers employ several standard forms, but their basic principle is the same:  repetition and contrast. The smallest musical unit that a composer works with is the [...]

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