If you want to learn how to read music notes and sing them, the skill you’re trying to acquire is called sight singing.
Sight singing is an integral part of aural skills, and ultimately, basic musicianship. It is typically the first skill we begin to develop when studying ear training. Sight singing involves singing aloud intervals, [...]
Sight Reading Music Program
Let’s explore some simple patterns to help you learn to read music that contains triads:
This first pattern arpeggiates through all the triads in C major in root position in a scale-like fashion. Practice this pattern, and the other ones presented here at your instrument, slowly and steadily. Start to use a metronome [...]
If you want to how to read music notes, how much should you pratice? I’ve heard alot of wrong answers about this so it’s time for me to weigh in…
First, a quick review…
1) You’ve got to make that you’re using exercises designed to teach you to begin thinking musically, not just memorizing lines and spaces… In [...]
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We’re getting into the home stretch of the intervals lessons and exercises to help you learn how to read music notes.
Odd numbered intervals: seconds, fourths, sixths and octaves, fall on a line and a space. Study the spacing between the note pairs in the following examples:
Notice that seconds have no lines or spaces between them. [...]
Here’s part two of last weeks lesson on various exercises you can use to learn how to read music notes…
4. Now try descending thirds:
C A F D B G E C . . .
5. Could you figure out ascending and descending fifths? Here’s how ascending fifths starts:
C G D . . .
Once you have mastered [...]
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