Friday, December 24, 2010

Learn How to Read Music

By David Neuenschwander


Being confronted with the idea that one should learn how to read music is difficult at best. Learning to read music is similar to learning anything, you must prepare by knowing, and learning how to use the rules. Starting by learning the notes that make up the music to finally playing the music that you have read are valuable steps in this learning process.

Making learning to read music is another one of the steps, this too is an important step. You could make a game that requires you to know the important beginning items for reading music. You could also purchase games and search the Internet to find the perfect one that will make learning fun.

Building confidence, skills, does not let inpatients and frustration to enter into the process. Practice does help and repetition makes reading music goes more smoothly, but it still take time.

The art of producing sounds that may cause emotions in people is a basic definition of music. When starting to read music you will also learn music terms like pitch, color, rhythm, notes, staff, clefs, and tempo. When you put this all together it does not teach you to read music it just gives you the foundation to start.

Next will follow the steps for reading the actual music. The base clef is the lower, deeper sounds you play, while the treble clef plays the higher notes on the instrument of your choice. The notes are arranged in alphabetical order from A to G.

As you study and learn to recognize the different notes you will understand that there are sixteenth, eights, quarters, half, and whole notes with the whole note receiving 4 beats to the measure. A rest is a space holder and gets the same type of beats as the equivalent note. Learning the symbols, terms of written music, and the willingness to practice will give you the happiness of starting to read and play music.

To learn how to read music is basically learning to read and recognize the pitch, rhythms of the notes in the music. Once you know the basics you are at a point where you can do more with the music. Learning how to read music will allow you to have fun playing music you have never heard before.




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