How to Read Notes The EASY Way You Weren’t Taught
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
- In this video we will guide you through a game-changing method for decoding musical notes! Say goodbye to the world of acronyms and say hello to a transformative journey in understanding deeply the grand staff. Get ready to elevate your note-reading skills with a fresh perspective that has way more to do than memorizing.
⚡️CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:20 Grand Staff
0:57 The Musical Alphabet
2:17 Landmark Notes
3:23 Patterns
4:49 Intervals
5:54 Use All Tips
6:43 Closing Thoughts
7:37 Practice Tool
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This video made so much more sense than the acronyms, patterns? Now we’re talk in’ 😃🤣
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Cool!
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8:03 thank you
I gave up piano at around 11 years old. Today I am 67! If you had been my teacher then, I would have never stopped! So clear and understandable this way. Now I think I will start again with your help. Thank you!
Same here, only I'm 59.
best opening I've ever seen. You got me!
38 here and finally pulling my keyboard back out after 20 years.
I am going to buy a Roland 90x and touch a piano key for the first time in my life soon - I hope I dont give up like all those others that quit at 11 years old LOL I want to learn how to play " Snowy Morning " by that Bouchal guy
im currently in my teen years learning to play the piano after my old one broke more than 10 years ago but i dont have the time
i'll do it tomorrow
I am a lead guitar player in a band....you just explained this better than anyone I have ever seen. God bless you dear! I am finally NOT overwhelmed! It's all a matter of practicing what you teach to become familiar. The light just went on! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much! ❤
Lisa is a phenomenal teacher. :-)
Music sheet are just tabs for piano lol
I'm 191 years old and this is the best instruction I've ever seen.
? 191?
@@maxinecamargo4644: Actually, yesterday was my birthday, so I"m now 192. Regards from Canada.
You're gettin' up there brother. I myself am 180 and the first thing to go was my hearing, then my teeth, and now my eyeballs are falling out and I got no hair.
@@plane_guy6051: You still have your sense of humor, so don't fret, you'll be fine.
191 years old is a landmark all its own!
55 years old and just got my first electric piano to learn. I found this channel, and this video makes so much sense. I would normally look at a bit of sheet music and be totally mind blown as if it was written in some alien language. This totally simplifies it for old noobs like me. Thanks so much for this video. BTW, Lisa is a lovely teacher. So enthusiastic and cheerful. Think I've gotten my first teachers crush in many decades lol
She always reminds me of Robyn , the singer 😅
37 and wanting to order a descent one to start on and try getting my son interested. 😊
Hi mi am 54 and I am trying to learn too to play piano at church. I am a little scared but I am happy you are also learning. Blessings to you and all your family.
dw i am a noob too at 14
Keep on going,I am 87 and learning pianoforte,buone giornate
My daughter was able to read notes without memorizing the acronyms, she said she just learned where the notes are, so I think it's the landmark.
Nice
It’s much better to avoid the acronyms. I know of kids who learned that way and had difficult reading the staff efficiently. If you have to think of the acronym versus just reading the note immediately, it’s really tough to play more difficult pieces. I also found lots had trouble understanding ledger lines.
My teacher taught me this but ignored her! LOL but it helped me to be class in grade 6 getting 143/150
I was the same way when I was little. We moved into a house with a piano, and I was reading music with no instruction. It just clicked! My mom got rid of our piano, and I didn't get a chance to play again until I was an adult and could get my own piano. If only I would have been encouraged and allowed to have access to a piano instead of blocked from it.
Please encourage her!! Reading music is such a beautiful skill! And take it from me, it desire to play the piano never goes away!
For someone with almost no musical training this is so clarifying. Thank you!!!!!
I am from India and a university professor in business management. I am 43 and have started recently with piano notes. I have been playing the chords since 1996 but took to notation only recently. I follow your channel and a few others, and things get simpler. I am using Simply Piano in its full version, and it is helping me a lot. I practice 1 hour daily (3 shifts of 20 minutes each), and now I am able to read both the bass and cleft notes, but slowly. I am sure that in a year or two, I will be able to increase my speed. I just ordered Roland FP-10 and I cannot wait to unbox it and start playing.
I'm 62 and have wanted to learn the piano since in grade school. My husband gifted me a piano for my birthday and I found you via the free software offer through purchase of the piano. I've been taking Lisa's courses and I love them. So easy to follow and I love her enthusiasm and coaching. Thank you for this video. It has made learning to read music so much easier.
As someone who last read music in 6th grade and is now starting to learn how to play the piano at 50 years old, thank you!!!
Been playing music for years and I have never seen this concept taught so simply. This definitely changed the way I read sheet music. Thank you!
I have been subconsciously doing this for a long time now. Requires a lot of practice for your brain to just look at the staff and think "oh thats a 6th" especially for bigger intervals but this is way better than the regular way with the acronyms. Thanks for showing this method to a larger audience
I'm still far from being skilled in this, but I think I see it will be coming together in multiple ways with experience, some a bit sooner, some later - landmarks, intervals, more landmarks, also seeing whole chords, also being better able to convert what you hear in your mind if you know the piece to notes or chords, also predictively... sometimes you'll use one, sometimes the other, and later usually more of them together.
@@lumpichu yeah being able to mentally hear what you're playing does go a long way in sight reading. I'm sure you'll soon be an absolute pro at sight reading. every professional was once just a beginner after all
I love how you inadvertently taught us how to play the first part of Can't Help Falling In Love 😍
Clever you! I didn't even notice myself.
Love her energy and her enthusiasm.
Did you just assume they're gender?
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408they are gender?
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 ???
I am a musician and learned how to read music at 32. I’m now 54 and teaching beginning guitar,Ukulele,drums and piano, this short video helped me read music better.:)
I learned as a child the acronyms, but your method certainly makes sense to me and I like the idea of having landmarks. I haven't played since I was a teen, so I have to relearn not only reading the notes, but how much they are worth. Quarter note- 1 beat and so on. Thank you.
I started doing piano for like 2 years in middle school and that was like 6 years ago wow. But after pandemic i stopped because i didnt have my teacher anymore and i felt lost because i never noticed that i lacked sight reading because i always memorized all the sheets and now i find it so difficult to read and play at the same time. Im back as a beginner but i wanna stay and this was so helpful it made recognize a lot of patterns i never thought of
Edit: also its even harder to learn online bc i learn with do re mi, but now i have to learn with c d e which confuses a lot my mind ngl haha
I’m seventy and have always wanted to play but have dyslexia which I think made learning music more difficult. Today I discovered this video lesson thought I would give it a try, what’s to lose. Suddenly things stared to come together in my head and it was all making a lot more sense. Thank you! It seemed less intimidating and I had a sense I could see how things were working and coming together. I feel I will watch MORE and see where this takes me. Wish I had this feeling of understanding and optimism of music fifty years ago. Maybe I could have caught on and would be able to take this somewhere and enjoy music so much more, MAYBE. Can old people still learn to play or is it likely just a dream?
Anyone any age can learn!
I've met a flute player who starting learning to play at 90! You've got this
It's just a dream
I remember learning this method when I first started piano lessons...it's still a good one, easy to remember and fun to learn. Hopefully everyone learning piano uses it.
I've been playing violin for 8 years, and landmark notes have always helped me so much. Same with patterns, too. These techniques can also be applied to many other instruments, and are truly game-changer methods of sight reading sheet music! Thank you!
She’s my favorite teacher of all time, we are truly blessed with her ability to share music with us all :)
I've tried to learn to read music so many times. Previous teachers abandoned me, as I couldn't get it. Thanks for your explanation, I paused the video and figured out the answer before you told me (and got it right - yippee). A small step but one I'm delighted with, thank you
So this is the best simplification of notes I've seen and got this quicker than the old go to. Bravo !
Of all the attempts I got to learn reading notes, this is the first time I have ever clicked at grasping the concept because your method is much simpler and it sticks easily. Thank you!
I started orchestra lessons in the 4th grade playing upright bass and I still remember the day this clicked for me and it was so exciting! Now 15 years later you've helped it click for treble clef and piano :) thank you!
The Timing of this is almost an answer to a prayer or certainly synchronicity! I've been learning Moonlight Sonata and getting the notes has certainly been challenging...I know some but once it starts getting to the left of middle C with the notes in the half steps plus the four sharps by the Treble cleft, I get lost...and learn the keys by memory...It was just yesterday I was feeling frustrated with it and mentioned it to my wife...she smiled...she said wait for it...quizzically I looked at her...and today this came into my inbox! Thanks to the Force and you Lisa!!!!
The best tutorial ever on reading notes. The way you express and explain is the most needed quality of a tutor.
I have been playing for 5 years and this is the best tips for reading I've ever got.
If you don't mind then can you tell me what was your age when you started learning the piano for the very first time?
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This is a great concept for learning notes. It's called sightreading and it helped me a lot to finally be able to look at a piece and at least somehow being able to read and play it without assistance.
This was the simplest explanation that I’ve ever heard and it’s one I can remember! The connection between the bass and treble clef was completely foreign to me and you’ve opened me up to actually begin playing piano!
Thank you so much!
I really want to thank you for these lessons. I have played the piano for a long time, but for some reason I stopped playing. I decided to start playing again..... But when I thought it was going to be a breeze. I couldn't remember just about nothing, complete blank battled and couldn't understand what I was doing. Your lessons have worken up my brain and everything started to fall into place. I 'my 76 yrs old and am so greatful for finding your site..... THANK YOU. You've given me a refresher course. ❤❤
I’ve always been struggling with the bass notes and it slowed down my learning so much. I tried it out after watching this video and oh boy I can read the notes so much faster now!! Thank you 🙌
I love this method too. I also find younger students have fun with acronyms because the animal names are fun. For example Every Good Bird Deserves Food they remember for Treble lines since birds fly high like the high notes etc.
I have taught this way for years, and you're absolutely right, it's how music was meant to be read and how music reading SHOULD be taught. And in fact, it SHOULD be quite easy. It's how I've always thought about reading music, and it has worked perfectly for me.
That being said, the number of times I have to explain and re-explain these concepts makes me seriously doubt most of humanity's intelligence. You don't know how many people would genuinely be confused by something like 6:28, and how many times I have to prompt people, "If it comes back to the same place again, IT'S THE SAME NOTE AGAIN." You'd think that wouldn't even have to be explained (you certainly didn't spend much time in on it in this video)! There are some people that seem literally unable to mentally distinguish between "line" and "space" notes even if they can always tell you verbally which one it is.
I think I'm going to go bang my head against a wall.
(Sorry, just needed to vent, great video lol)
Thank you for this! I have driven myself crazy with "Every Good Boy Does Fine", and "Good Boys Do Fine Always". I think your strategy will finally help me to learn to site read.
I'm 53 and just now learning how to play the saxophone and read sheet music. My primary go to instructor for the sax is Jay Metcalf but am still looking for a go to sheet music instructor. So far, I like you. Thanks for an awesome video, and personality.
I learned as a kid by coloring first flute images, then the notes themselves, and without noticing I had it. Its good to know ways of explaining it for adults too!
Glad to see you are current here on UA-cam, I'm a possible newbie and, if I get a piano I'm coming on to UA-cam to your videos!! You have a great personality not a drag to listen to and kind of cheerful ! Thank you for your classes...
Your so inspiring, thank you so much. I'm 75 and have PTSD for most of my life from being in Nam. Your method of teaching makes me feel happy thank you so much, I really enjoy your videos.
I have just had my first ever lesson at the grand old age of 50, have a piano being delivered next week, can't wait to start my journey
I bought a cardboard keyboard layout and when you finally realise how the treble and base stages are connected suddenly it all makes sence. I started to grin melt on the base line, wanting the same note names for the positions but after the connection it all makes sence. I'm subscribing, I 'm autistic and really get the pattern thing. I think in pictures. Really need the why, and this concept worked so well for me.
I saw another with dog house dog in the middle, cat on one side, elephant on the other, and that stuck immediately. Then they said grandma's house for notes around the three black keys. Front door, granny, Apple pie, backdoor. I visualise those on the notes and have happy brain as I now have a movie in my head.
I'm now seeing note patterns as you say, means I can focus more on the base line as that is new to me. Isn't music beautiful. I have played by ear before but this time I'm trying to reply understand music theory and notation, more fully. It's fascinating.
This method is the best, I can't stand complications, so this one is the best, thank you for explining it so clearly, makes a world of a diference. Bless you.
You, ma'am, are the most enthusiastic teacher EVER!!
i WISH i found you sooner!!! I would have loved learning music!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Aw, thank you so much! It's never too late to learn ✨
Brilliant. I always struggled reading notes until this was explained in such a simple effective way
For the bass clef, it is not the circle at the back, but rather the 2 dots. Both clefs were written as the letter itself. Their modern standardization comes from an adaptation of those early letters to make it more universal. The dots on the bass clef help to limit the confusion of having the 2 lines of F around a line on the staff. As a lutenist, I play and read lots of early music, and as an academic, I care about finding the earliest editions of music to work from that I can.
All that said... Yes, we should absolutely begin instruction with an understanding of the musical alphabet and of what clefs do.
G for the G cleff and F for the f cleff they are even called sometimes by these namea in German.
Violin Cleff and Bass Cleff.
The secret in reading is practice. Just like normal reading. First single letters - single notes than. The melodies, accords, harmonies.
That's why instrument lessons in music schools should be accompanied by theory lessons with practice to how to read notes and write notes.
I love this approach …took lessons when i was 11 and they taught traditional way and now I’m starting up learning again and it’s hard to shake. I’ve started translating the falling notes on the videos to sheet music and it’s amazing how quickly I’m learning the notes where they go with this method
You are not a piano teacher, you are an angel send down by the Music Gods. Keep up the good work!
I am 60+ hoping to learn piano . Since I am free and piano is of no use.
Your lesson is easy to follow.
Love it. Thank you
Thank you for watching!
So much more practical than how I was taught at school back in the day. And so simple
This just popped up on my feeds and I am glad it did. Your explanation is easy. For a beginner like me, it helps me grasp the concept with ease. Thank you.
This is my first viewing and I'm subscribing. After years of frustration trying the learn notes...you made it soooo simple within minutes. Thanks!
For the first 4 minutes I was thinking "you already know this so of course it's easy for you" then shortly after, once you started talking about intervals, I realized it's now way easier for me to read the staff and know what to play. Thanks!
Lisa has such fabulous stage presence and an engaging personality. Thank you so much!
This was mind blowing. Definitely had an aha moment. I wish I knew this years ago, it's so much easier and simpler than recalling a mnemonic all of the way up the lines until you get to your note.
You are radiating muscial energy through your instructions.
Wow! You are beautiful AND a genius!!!!!! Thank you so much! Been wanting to learn piano my whole life and at 59 just recently got an electric piano for Christmas. You are amazing.
Your presentation is Eloquent, and an example to other presenters: Sincere Enthusiasm; Thoughtful Preplanning!; Lucid demonstration of Patterns!; you absorbed Every second of my attention! Very Well Done. So many kids of all ages can gain from this Intro!
I went for piano classes when I was young.. this is like 30 years ago.. I quit because it was "too hard" for me, I couldn't read the notes, I wasn't told the meaning of the lines and for all these years I've never ever thought about looking it up. I always wanted to play, but I thought it was too hard. I just thought, I can't do it, I don't understand the lines and I can't figure our which note is what on the keyboard/piano.
If I were taught this, maybe I would have played piano today, maybe I could have played songs like "everyone" else.. Maybe I could have become an artist.. This video, seriously, made me cry. After 30 years I finally understand, why haven't I looked this up earlier..
Thank you! You don't know what this means to me. Thank you! ❤
You are an absolutely adorable human, and that was actually really useful and no one has ever explained the scale to me that way. Honestly, if I really want to play something I usually rewrite a song in numbers which just makes more sense to me, but this lesson might make playing the notes more feasible and speedy. Thanks.
Great video. I was taught notes (treble clef only) without the acronyms, just named the notes and the corresponding keys and it just stuck in my brain. Never actually learned the bass clef, so this is very informative.
This is such a great channel. Thank you so much for all you do!
Thank you for your support!😀
the way you talk about this gives me hope!
Since my childhood days i always wish learning to play the piano, now i'm 55 and i still wished i still can, i have gone over your videos and my hope was still high, i believe i will learn so much from you and my wish will come true, it's never too late 🥰😍😍i have ordered a portable piano to begin with i'm really so excited and you have given me much of an inspiration to continue to learn 😍
You are such a good teacher. I have no piano experience but I'm glad to say after this, I can go on and properly learn how to play one.
This is amazing I have seen many of these videos but you are the first one to make me understand on a different level
I took piano as a child for 6 years. The acronyms I think is what confused me so much and kept me from learning to read music simply. It just never clicked and I walked away from it. This just helped me understand it better!! ❤
Same with me. I've been afraid of music that requires reading for so long. I can't wait to practice this!
So simple - intervals instead of acronyms. Brilliant! I can't believe i never thought of that while counting down the lines. It's like being taught to use your fingers to add up small sums - I still do it on the sly and I'm in my forties! I need a better alternative for that too 😂
❤ how you mentioned reading is a process. Thank you for showing patience 🫶🌟
So great! Thank you, I’ll show my kids :) This reminds me of how we had to learn songs to memorize multiplication facts. But that really just slowed us down because then we’d have to sing a song to get to the fact, rather than just knowing the fact 🙃
Love it! I'm self-educated musician and this is too useful, actually this complete my "emptys" in some basic stuff that i need for playing better.
I took piano lessons in my late 20's for 2 years-was taught by acronyms. My brain got stuck on the acronyms for the line and space notes and could not read the music just by the notes. I did not stick with the piano out of frustration. Well, 20 years later and I am starting again with piano. I found this video and the way you are teaching this is so simple! It makes sense-start with C then count alphabet up or down not separating the lines and spaces into two groupings. Thank you!
This was awesome! Thanks for posting. I play guitar. But it's always helpful to look at these piano lessons, especially regarding music theory. I have a keyboard phone app that I use from time to time. When the keyboard phone app is not enough, I pull out the Casio keyboard 🙂
Greatly appreciate your way of teaching and your enthusiasm in your videos, thank you so much.
Thank you for watching our content!🙂
Thank you so much for this. I had the hardest time trying to understand sight reading and then I watched this and I can't believe after being a musician for 20+ years that could not read music at all and I am now just starting, but this is so much easier than FACE and Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge and all of that nonsense.
Thanks. I have no musical talent and have often wondered about the code of reading music. This has given me the understanding that I have wanted. Be Well and Good Journey
I just wanted to say, I've struggled with this ever since I was a kid. This helped me a lot! I stopped learning how to play bc I struggled so much. Thank you!
This is the method I’ve been using for years with my students ❗️Wish that’s how it was taught when I was studying piano/music🎵🎶. 🎹😊 Great video❗️
Thank you for watching our content!🙂
I just use the word "ACE" find where you can place them on the staff and it will be easier to guess where the other notes are to avoid going up the ladder and stall way too much while playing a song.
Learn to play blindly, and know where the CDE notes are by feeling.
It had two black keys so If you feel those when you have your eyes closed you know the D is in the middle and the C is on your left and the E is on your right,
It's okay to make mistakes because you are practicing, not playing for a concert.
I love this!!! It will so help my grandchildren ….. thank you Lisa
Your lessons are so amazing. Love it. Thank you so much ❤
I learn something new with every video you post. Bass clef always feels harder…I guess I need to get better at running the alphabet backwards 😉
I'm 56 years old and just got my first 61 keys keyboard and am overwhelmed but feel like this is doable. Thank you!
Many thanks having tried to follow chords I didn't realise the bass clef started on the middle c too, so helpful.
About 30 years ago, I could site raid based on my experience in a guitar ensemble.
Now, trying to learn the keyboard is a little mindbending. This was helpful.
Lisa you are a jewel, I've learned so much from you in such a short time. You make learning the piano so much fun. Only took 40 years to get back to my love that I only pecked as kid....Thx.
You’re so happy and fun to watch! Thank you
I love, love this woman! I learned more here than I ever leaned before. Reading music before was a Foreign language. I feel like I can do this. Ty
This gorgeous pixie made me SUBSCRIBE! Her energy, facial expressions, clarity of voice and content is superb. And the DIMPLE!!!
I'm about to be 79 years of age, and have been playing musical instruments, by ear (but mostly fingers) since I was a teenager, starting with a Gibson Les Paul electric guitar. I've accumulated and have had fun playing harmonicas ("Blues harp"), Pennywhistles/tinwhistles, native American flutes, mandolin, fiddle (a violin when wearing shoes), and keyboard.
Hopefully this pixie will teach my left hand how to play nicely with my right hand, on the keyboard - I only play melody, with my right hand. My left hand doesn't know what to do and how to integrate with my right hand.
I am a teacher and I think your app is very informative, I've passed it on to my student and hope it will cement her ability to read music better and faster, thanks🙏
I’m just getting started to learn to play and this makes so much more sense to me.
Oh my goodness, I’ve never seen it explained so easily. Mind blown
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im a flute player and i have started 6 months ago.. you made this video 5 months ago, ngl i kinda figured these stuff out a month after studying flute. ive grown so much since then! wish ive seen this video sooner :')
I started taking piano lessons at the age of 42! I was indeed never taught this, but this is exactly how I understood the Treble and Base clefs and the intervals when I looked at sheet music on my own. I realized the G and F clefs where called that because their "curls" land on G and F. My kids also take music lessons, and I'm not a fan of the acronyms-way of teaching the notes. It feels to me like you're now spending time learning some "sequence of words" while you already know the sequence of the alphabet. For me, there's no reason to link any "silly sentences" to the notes.
I just staeted piano from scratch. I suffred a stroke and doctor recommended tto learn something new, so to me is about being normal again as far as mwmory, vision and reactio. Love yout videos
Thank you I was having a lot of trouble learning the notes and this really helped
Thank you for this very intuitive and brilliant tutorial - my 10 year old saw your video today and is inspiring her to resume her piano lessons after a 2 yrs cold spell playing piano. You are an awesome teacher ❤
The best explanation of note reading I have ever had - thank you!
Beautiful! Landmarks and intervals make reading music so much easier than working with FACE & EGBDF. Great explanation.
what a fabulous teacher you are, thank you so much
I loved the lesson it makes so much more sense than the old way ,and so much easier to recognize and remember!!!