How to read music
With
Talia GirtonDive into music reading basics, including the staff, clefs, and time signatures, to start understanding written music.
What's in the course
21 lessons (0h 29m) · 1 free
01. New note: D, and two-note piece walkthrough
1:36
02. Stepping Up and Down - two-note piece performance
1:10
03. Stepping Up and Down - version 2 walkthrough
0:54
04. Stepping Up and Down - version 2 performance
1:15
05. New note: E, three-note piece walkthrough
2:21
06. Stepping Up and Down three-note piece performance
1:03
07. Stepping Up and Down - version 4 walkthrough
0:30
08. Stepping Up and Down - version 4 performance
1:05
09. Tones and semi-tones
1:02
Lesson transcript
In this lesson, we’ll start reading music! We’ll explore the staff, also called the stave, which has five lines and four spaces, each representing a different note. We’ll start with the treble clef for the right-hand notes. Next to the clef, you’ll see the time signature. We’re using 4/4, meaning four beats per measure, with each beat represented by a quarter note. Music is divided into bars, much like words in a sentence, separated by bar lines. We’ll practice reading notes, counting beats, and following bar divisions!
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Meet your guru
Meet your guru
Talia Girton is a musician and HCPC-registered music therapist, and the founder of The Cycling Music Teachers. Her work brings together music therapy, counselling and education, and she tutors internationally on the music therapy training course at UDELAS in Panama as well as contributing to professional development with the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA). On MusicGurus she teaches the Piano Method and Piano Foundations courses, guiding complete beginners from first steps through rhythm, both hands, theory and performance.
