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The traditional approach to learning musical instruments involved reading and studying complex books and learning aids designed to teach piano. However, more and more people worldwide are realizing the need to learn the proper way to read piano music, and the Internet has become a powerful and accurate resource for this.
When it comes to playing any modern musical instrument, many music teachers often teach ineffectively, leading to quick loss of interest. While understanding basic notes is important, it doesn’t teach someone how to play an actual song. By learning musical notation properly from written sheet music, one can quickly learn to play any song.
Notated musical notes are written instructions composed by a songwriter to enable the song to be played on various instruments. Once you memorize these musical notes, they remain the same regardless of the instrument. The basic notes include whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, and eighth and sixteenth notes, which are notated on the written staff.
In addition to the placement of each note on the staff, each note can have different variations on the piano. Notes can be sharp, flat, diminished, augmented, seventh, major seventh, and minor. These variations depend on the notes present in the musical scale of the key in which the song is played.
Learning how to read music properly begins with understanding this precise information. The notes are placed on a series of lines and spaces. In the treble clef, there are five lines and four spaces. From bottom to top, they represent E, G, B, D, and F. A helpful mnemonic to remember these notes is the phrase “Every Good Boy Does Fine.”
Any note that falls between the lines is always F, A, C, E. This phrase spells the word “FACE” and is easily remembered. The key signature of the song determines if the notes have special meanings such as sharps or flats. Advanced musical staffs include an additional staff called the bass clef, which lists the bass notes present in the lower octave of the instrument keys.
Learning how to read piano music is made easy by starting with the treble clef and mastering this section of piano comprehension. The key and tempo are the only elements that can ever change in sheet music, making it simple to learn and understand.
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As a beginner, I always though that reading music was overrated. With time I realized that it is a essential tool to have in a musician’s arsenal, and I was losing out on a lot of good things without it. That prompted me to put in the hard word and start learning, and now I’m much better off.
absolutely, it’s an important tool. As composer I want to add inspiration and creativity in my arsenal, what do you think?
Yes, it is very tough to read piano music..but this post help us to learn how to read ….thanks for sharing great post….