Take a look back over the lesson from yesterday on how to recognize and how to read music notes all along the treble clef. Now we’re going to give you a few of the exercises to cover along the way – this is a big music reading tip!

 

To familiarize yourself with the note names you can practice a few simple exercises away from your instrument:

 

1. Say the note names out loud in order starting on any name, through two or more repetitions of the musical alphabet. For example:

D E F G A B C D E F G A B C D . . .

 

2. Now reverse the order:

D C B A G F E D C B A G F E D . . .

 

3. Once you can say the notes backwards, try this pattern starting on any pitch:

 C E G B D F A C … 

 

This is an ascending thirds pattern. C to E is the interval of a third ( count C D E, one two three)  Notice that this pattern of ascending thirds repeats itself once all seven note names are covered.  This kind of patterning and repetition comes up a lot in music theory and is a common technique in almost any real learning system to learn how to read music notes.

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