Category Archives: How to Read Music
5 Steps to Sight Reading Sheet Music – Sight Reading Exercise 1 – Sheet Music Markings
Hi One Minute Music Lesson Fans, I am creating a series of sight reading exercises for you to help you with your sight reading skills and to provide harmonically interesting sight reading materials. In this first exercise, which you can … Continue reading
Bass Clef Sight-Reading Exercise Worksheet
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE EXERCISE Hi One Minute Music Lesson Fans, Continuing my series of exercises and worksheets on sight-reading based on my book How to Read Music Easily in 30 Days, this week we have a bass clef … Continue reading
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Treble Clef Sight-Reading Exercise Worksheet
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE EXERCISE Hi One Minute Music Lesson Fans, Sight-reading and learning to read music can be a challenge to master. To help you get to your goal of learning to read and play music better, … Continue reading
Free Preview of “How to Read Music Easily in 30 Days”
Hi Fans of the One Minute Music Lesson, My new e-book How to Read Music Easily in 30 Days has been released and I wanted to share a preview of it with you. In this 43 page preview you will begin … Continue reading
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Short Sight Reading Exercises
Sightreading Genie by PracticeSpot.com is a great tool for beginning sight readers. This tool allows you to choose from 4 difficulty levels and proves you will a large amount of short musical examples to play. It is designed for piano … Continue reading
Sight reading agility
Do you test your sight reading agility? Today I wanted to post a tool that is useful for practicing your sight reading agility. This Piano Keys trainer from eMusicTheory.com allows you to adjust the difficulty level from beginners to advanced. This tool … Continue reading
New Book Update: 4-18-12
Hi fans of the One Minute Music Lesson, I wanted to give you all an update on the progress of the book. After collecting responses from you guys I am hearing that you want a book aimed at teaching you … Continue reading
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Great tool for practicing sight-reading
When learning to read music you will need materials for practicing. One of the hardest things about learning to sight read is having enough materials so that every example is fresh and truely being read at sight. This new tool … Continue reading
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How to Read Music – Lesson 19 – Triplets and Duplets
Triplets are 3 notes that fit in the same rhythmic space as 2 of the same notational value. Triplets are used in simple meters when we need to show a rhythmic value that would normally be found in compound meter. … Continue reading
How to Read Music – Lesson 15 – Simple Meter
Simple meters are meters that the beat is divisible by 2. You can easily tell if a meter is a simple meter by the top number of the time signature. If the top number is 2, 3 or 4 then … Continue reading
How to Read Music – Lesson 14 – Time Signatures
Time signatures are the numbers that are placed just after the clef symbol at the beginning of a piece of music. The time signature tells us the exact length of each measure in a piece of music. On a deeper … Continue reading
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How to Read Music – Lesson 12 – Rests
A rest is a timed pause, or silence in music. Just as we learned about in Lesson #9 (Rhythmic Values) every note has a specific rhythmic value. The same is true for the rests. They even share the same names. … Continue reading
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How to Read Music – Lesson 11 – Dots and Ties
Dot and ties are two different ways to add time value to any note. Let’s begin by explaining the tie. The tie is used to add the time value of two notes together. A tie can be thought of as … Continue reading
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How to Read Music – Lesson 10 – The Note
DOWNLOAD THE FREE NOTE POSTER The note tells us 2 things: It designates the time duration and pitch of a sound. There are 5 parts to understand any type of note. They are: 1. The Head 2. The Stem 3. … Continue reading
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How to Read Music – Lesson 9 – Rhythmic Values
DOWNLOAD THE FREE RHYTHMIC VALUES POSTER Rhythm is the systematic arrangement of musical sound in time. In order to show this musicians use musical notation. Rhythmic values, the individual mathematical time values of rhythm, are shown with notation such as … Continue reading
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How to Read Music – Lesson 8 – Alto Clef
DOWNLOAD THE FREE ALTO CLEF POSTER HERE The alto clef’s proper name is the C clef. This is because it’s pointer points to middle C. The C clef is a special clef, because it is a movable clef. Wherever you … Continue reading
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How to Read Music – Lesson 7 – Ledger Lines
In this lesson we will learn about ledger lines. A ledger line is a short line added below or above the staff to extend it’s range. Ledger lines are only used when a note is outside the range of the … Continue reading
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Free Treble & Bass Clef Notes Poster Download
Click here to download a free Treble & Bass Clef Note poster. Share with a friend: Recommend on Facebook Share on Google+ Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Tweet about it Tell a friend Pin It
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How to Read Music – Lesson 6 – Accidentals
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How to Read Music – Lesson 5 – Enharmonics
Enharmonics are also known as flats and sharps in music. An enharmonic is one pitch that has two different names. Watch this quick video to help you understand more about enharmonics. If you liked this lesson don’t forget to sign-up for … Continue reading
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How to Read Music – Lesson 4 – Piano Keyboard
The piano keyboard consists of 88 keys. 53 are white, called the naturals, and 36 are black, called the enharmonics, or flats and sharps. The keyboard is arranged in a pattern of 12 notes, with 2 incomplete patterns on each … Continue reading
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How to Read Music – Lesson 3 – Bass Clef
Download a free Treble & Bass Clef Note poster here. Practice the bass clef with the Interactive Bass Clef Tool If you liked this lesson don’t forget to sign-up for the free One Minute Music Lesson newsletter. With your subscription you … Continue reading
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How to Read Music – Lesson 2 – Treble Clef
Download a free Treble & Bass Clef Note poster here. If you liked this lesson don’t forget to sign-up for the free One Minute Music Lesson newsletter. With your subscription you will also receive a free copy of the eBook “How … Continue reading
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How to Read Music – Lesson 1 – Pitch
To understand pitch better take a look at the video above and download the free pitch poster. If you liked this lesson don’t forget to sign-up for the free One Minute Music Lesson newsletter. With your subscription you will also receive a … Continue reading
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