The Easiest Way Learn How To Read Music
May 9, 2011The First thing you do when you learn how to read music is to know that notes have alphabet names. These are placed on a Stave. The Stave is a group of five lines where each of the lines and spaces denotes a note.
There are two sets of lines where the top five lines give the higher notes and the bottom lines give the notes in the lower registration. The higher registration notes are indicated with the Treble Clef and the lower registration notes are indicated with a Bass Clef.
Learning the names of the notes are simple, because they are called (starting with Middle C), D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D and E. From C to C is usually called your octave.
Notes on the ledger lines of the Stave spell out the word F, A, C, E and it is that easy to learn. An acronym for the in between lines are Every, Good, Boy, Deserves, Food. Below or above the lines you simply add strokes through the note (as in Middle C) and above or below.
Each note in a measure has a name and a number of beats. The number of beats in a measure is what gives the Time Signature. This is indicated next to the Treble Clef and Bass Clef. It is written as a fraction. The top number will tell you how many notes you need to add per measure. That means if you want four notes to the measure you would place the four on top.
You must also get to know the names of these notes. There is the whole note which has four beats in it, the half note which has two beats, the quarter note which has one beat. Then there are the eighth notes and sixteenth notes.
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