Learn your pieces faster and more fluently with these quick and easy tips and shortcuts for reading notes FAST!
You don’t actually need to know the letter name of every note before you play it. That’s note naming. With the help of this tutorial, you’ll learn how to READ and understand the patterning and relationship of notes as they occur in the music; for example, do the notes move by step or skip, and are they going up or down?
Don’t struggle with constant note naming, which slows you down and leads to frustration. Become a fluent note reader and conquer your pieces quickly…
0:16 Benefits of being able to read notes fast
0:41 Difference between note naming and note reading
1:35 Understanding Line Notes and Space Notes
2:03 Understanding ‘pitch’ representation on Stave
2:44 Understanding Direction and Distance
3:17 Introducing the ‘Step’ Interval
5:02 Introducing the ‘Skip’ Interval
6:08 Introducing wider intervals – 4ths, 5ths, 6ths, 7ths, 8ve
7:20 Shortcut for how to recognise ‘odd’ numbered intervals
8:53 Shortcut for how to recognise ‘even’ numbered intervals
9:59 Putting note reading into practice – an easy example
11:17 Putting note reading into practice – a harder example
12:28 Concluding Summary