How To Learn To Read Music
May 18, 2011If you don’t learn to read music you will never get the best out of your musical ability. Playing new pieces will always be hard as you won’t be able to fully follow the instructions. Also even if you believe you know a piece well you may missing out on the chance to improve how you play it by not being able to read music.
Unless you can master this art you will not be able to pick up on all those nuances. Learning how to do anything takes time, and this is no exception. The first time you pick up a piece of sheet music can be daunting.
The best way to approach this is to break it down into small parts that you can approach one at a time. The written version of a tune will have many parts to it, but the basis of it is the stave. This is the row of lines which show the various notes.
How you play the note is determined by a symbol such as a crotchet or a quaver. There are also additional symbols which show if the note needs to be played flat or sharp. The simplest way to master reading musical scores is to begin with learning these different notes.
Once you know what the notes are it is a good idea to find a simple tune that you know well and associate the notes you play with the notes on the sheet. A good type of tune for this is a nursery rhyme as they tend to be very simple and well known. Follow the notes on the sheet as you play.
It’s also often a good idea to start with just one hand. Many tunes are written with both a base and a treble part but often it can be easier to get the hang of one hand at a time. Once you’ve mastered the basics you should progress quickly, and it is a skill that will stay with you for life.
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