If 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.
Learning anything new takes time and patience. Mastering this art is no exception but will certainly be worth doing. The hardest part in any process like this is the beginning.
Musical scores normally contain many pieces of information and at first glance may look impossible to understand. The trick is to break down the learning process into bite size pieces you can take your time over. Start with the notes themselves, you know which note to play by the line on the stave it is shown on.
The way a note is played is shown on the stave by using various symbols. These symbols show the speed at which a note should be played and also whether it needs to be played flat or sharp. When learning how to master reading music learning the notes is a good place to start.
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.
Most tunes are written in two parts so that each hand is doing something different. This can be confusing at first so it is often better to learn one hand at a time. This is a skill you will keep for life so is well worth the time spend mastering it.
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