This ONE Trick Makes Reading Music WAY Easier
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
- Are you struggling with reading music and feeling overwhelmed by all the notes and symbols? 🎼 Well, we've got just the trick for you! In this video, we'll show you how to make reading music way easier with just ONE simple technique.
The secret lies in understanding intervals - that's the distance between notes. By counting the intervals between notes, you can quickly identify the melody of the song. We'll break down how to do this step by step, so even if you're a beginner, you'll be able to follow along easily.
But that's not all - we'll also show you how to read lead sheets, which are simplified versions of sheet music. You'll learn how to quickly read the left-hand notes or just play chords in the left-hand, making it much easier to play along with your favorite songs.
So grab your piano or keyboard, sit back, and get ready to learn this one trick that will change the way you read music forever.
And be sure to meet me in the comments and let me know what is your biggest struggle with reading music. 🎼
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She explains everything so SIMPLE just cannot go wrong because the way she teaches music 🎵🎶🎵🎶 is NO longer a mystery to me as a dummy! I enjoy her videos 😍🥰🥰 always! Bless this woman!! I will replay her videos again and again!!
@teedtad2534 Greetings, We aren't dummies, simply never informed. I wouldn't take childhood lessons because I wanted to go out & play. Knowing now-I made a foolish error(practice can be fun too).
Absolutely amazing!! Thank you
thank you for this!!!
The biggest struggle reading music is not reading pitches; it’s reading *RHYTHMS* particularly lots of mixed note lengths with sub divisions shorter than eighth notes. Like triplets, 16ths, and quintuplets and stuff. The mixed rhythms make reading the pitches harder than they’d be if it were just straight quarters or straight eighths.
I struggle with the rhythms more than the notes/intervals!
If I already know how the song is supposed to sound, I don't need to read the rhythm notes, which I don't.
Love your videos! Started learning piano in last 2 years as an OAP as well as guitar. Love the way you’ve taken the left hands and used chords to improvise with the right hand melody. I’ve never liked improvisation because it never sounded like the song and I can’t sing! You’ve definitely inspired me!!! 😀
This was probably the most helpful tip for reading music I have EVER HEARD. Thank you so much!
I’m relatively a beginner at reading music, I’m 12 years old and your videos have helped me immensely!!
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Been playing for a quite a while and it's only recently that I started to recognise intervals on the staff. Also improvising left hand accompaniments noting the chord symbols. It has really helped my reading. Love this....way to go defo !!!
I am completely lost in this video. I already knew the lines and spaces of the treble clef, but after that I was completely lost. This isn't nearly as simple as people are saying in the comments.
It is easier to understand coming from reading notes from the get go; hence this is why she learned it during music university. It is an enhancement not really great for novice
She straight up says it’s gonna take practice but will be easier in the long run. And she’s right. Using this method you only have to think about what note the first is then work in intervals as opposed to looking at each one and thinking what note is that? I’m a complete beginner and it makes sense to me. Just takes a bit of practice. And I get that seems like more work but it’s only at first.
You are such a great piano teacher. Thanks for making these videos😊
Thank you!
It is sooo helpful
I love how you explain things very clearly ❤️
Thanks for your insights. Such a blessing! Much success in your teaching.
I’ve scoured the internet for helpful ways of reading music, I’ve tried to find ways myself of seeing patterns that maybe helpful to me ..like ABC, B being the middle line( for some reason putting the notes in threes, for me, helps the memory) But I’ve only seen 4 of your videos and each one is a revelation. The techniques to help people learn the piano are just so practical and motivating.. it keeps the joy bubbling away rather than frustration and boredom. Many many thanks.. you have found your forte.
Thumbnail shows Chopin Raindrop Prelude, one of my favorite pieces to play, especially the middle section, so much fun to play it!
Wow, the approach you take makes it incredibly simple for people to pick up reading music notation quickly.
Thanks for all your wonderful explanation. My struggle is with rhythm.
Pianoly is the greatest! Thanks Kaitlyn for your free lessons.
I totally agree!!
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As a complete beginner in reading music, i discovered that reading the notes vertically helps me to improve reading faster for left hand and right hand instead of reading from left to right. My brain responds quicker to what i see in conjuction with my hands by reading vertically.
Wow, what an eye-opener! 🎹 I've been struggling with reading music for ages, and this ONE trick is a game-changer. Thanks a million for sharing this valuable technique! 🙌 Understanding intervals makes so much sense, and breaking it down step by step really helps, especially for us beginners. The tip on reading lead sheets is pure gold - it's like unlocking a new level in music reading. 🌟
Thank you to the talented creator for such a clear and insightful tutorial! Your passion for music education shines through. 🎶 Can't wait to apply this to my piano sessions. Also, I appreciate the personal touch in the comments - feels great to connect on a musical journey. My biggest struggle was definitely deciphering left-hand notes, and this video just made it so much simpler. 🤩
Looking forward to more fantastic content from your channel! Keep up the fantastic work and thanks again for making music more accessible for us learners. 🎵✨
Love it! Thank you.
Good, I've been reading (and teaching) intervallically for years.
Well done!
Thank you for your help!❤
Way you are teaching is really admirable and I have also learnt playing piano but i get inspiration from you.God bless you.go on
well explained - thank you 🎹
Reading music for me never was a problem. Playing it was, as I was not blessed with the manual dexterity to become a skilled musician.
I play bass and this has helped me a lot to understand music best video i have seen
This is great, as a total beginner I try to read every note on the score then find it on the piano, which is so slooowww, this is way faster. Wish I'd seen this earlier haha!
Wow. You just blew my mind. Thank you so much. You are a pro! And I am attributing my skill to you and your channel. Thank you sincerely.
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Hi Kaitlyn, that's the beauty of "C" major. No accidentals are truly a confidence builder. Then a single flat or sharp-the training wheels have been adjusted(etc.).
Thanks for the interval tip. I struggle with reading notes.
I stumbled on your channel and this is very good. Thanks for sharing
Hadn't thought about intervals. This is a great idea. It'll help me so much. Thank you.
This is amazing
Thanks
This was awesome I have never seen on tube anyone explain it like that. Thank you
I picked up learning during Covid. Self taught. Then got side track with guitar for 2 yrs. Now I have to start from square one again learning the piano.
You really are a good teacher.
Amazing
Easy and creative tutorial explanation
Thank you
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Thanks for this. Be nice if there was a quick fix. Like everything in life that's worthwhile it takes time and commitment.
Thank you for explaining how it's important to have both. I think this will be helpful for me, I can read music but slowly, but intervals I do okay (not well yet). Recognizing the importance of both is helpful
So helpful! Especially with the left hand, Thanks!
Thank you, Julie! 😊 Happy playing! 🎹
Awesome, thank you so much !!!
I learned 'every good boy deserves fat apples' for the treble line notes
This woman kicks my ass! Just HOW can I write my OWN songs using the most common chords that works miracles to be creative in pop or standard music?! .,. 🧁🙏🙏🧁
Thank you for sharing piano lessons. I spend so much time practicing but only few of the many lessons.youve been sharing almost all day and also in some of the nights. I am a slow learner but I was enjoying a lot even though my left hand is not cooperating with my right hand. So I am practicing piano with my left hand alone for awhile then with my right hand as soon as my right hand calls for its turn to play. I was trying to make both hands work together in harmony without pushing them hard to get along. Maybe, hopefully, my both hands would come together in good terms overtime. Again, thank you so much. We are thankful for sharing your channel, for your genuine effort to boost the moral of those who are not gifted enough of the talent in playing the piano. God bless you and have a nice day.
I like the way you explain the piano’
Sweet. Thx4sharing!
Thanks for watching! Happy practicing! 🎹
I am a professional piano player and this really helps me reading music
I started out playing on the organ as well as the piano, so I started chording right from the start and learned to improvise as well. My trouble spot is notes that are beyond the one line or space above or below the staff. Now that I want to play things like Brahms Waltz Op. 39 #15 in a flat, I have a horrible time trying to read the left-hand/bass notes. When I was in school I played the alto sax (treble cleft) all the way through 12th grade for marching band. But my teacher asked me if I would be willing to play the bassoon (bass cleft) for the concert season. I told her I would do my best but that I needed to quickly learn to read the bass cleft. She told me a quick fix, just flip the note up to the next whatever the note was on...line to line or space to space. I have never been able to break this habit. As you can imagine, that is quite a lot of work to do just to read the music. This makes playing more than one note next to impossible. Now that I am retired and have time to work on my piano skills, do you have any suggestions to help me read the bass cleft any easier/faster? I also know that bass lines go as follows G(ood)(oys), D(eserve), F(udge); and that the spaces are A(ll), C(ows), E(at), G(rass). So short of straight out memorizing the notes, do you have any suggestions?
I had a high school friend ask me to stretch my hands as wide as I could on her piano. She acted playfully jealous and said, “you could play 9ths so easily!”
20 years later and I finally understand what that meant. Thank you
Interesting, thank you.
omg, this makes it so much easier because it takes way less effort for the brain to work with such patterns! thank you so much this really felt like a complete lesson
Thanks for this helpful video.
Thanks for watching! 🎹
Thank you teacher❤
Thanks!
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I started a couple of weeks ago and love it! Doing much better than with other instruments I'd tried. Funny thing is I'm left handed but I find playing with the right much easier.
This one trick music reading makes easier example half steps or half notes chords progression Am , B7 , C major , A major and also Dm .
But a little bit clearer with the first lesson than the second. Thanks❤
Halo v.young lady madam, I much appreciated your teaching, I have not cleared 8th&16th notes since 2 yrs.but today much cleared. Teached by hands, keyboard. I much thankful to God bless u.more.
You Ms., are awesome.. thanks!
Thanks for watching! Happy practicing. 🎹
Read my book a little better and worked out when to play the cord but your book you suggested will help a lote .
Merci beaucoup. I've started to sightread Bach chorale pieces, but at a beginners level. And I was struggling, but I haven't applied this trick to playing them. Can't wait to get back to the piano.
This will definitely help with Bach chorales. Let me know how it goes! 🎹
Thank you.
I love your videos.. I dabble in keyboard but mostly play guitar and so many songs I have to read music written for the keyboard/piano and then apply it to the fretboard so any trick I can pick up to speed this up is really great! I pinned a cheat note to my wall in my "studio" that has all the notes spelled out but I think just applying intervals should be a no brainer since I am working with intervals all the time, I just never made the connection between the two for some reason. Thank you! :)
Hi katilyn
I writes my own gospel songs and I need to learn how to play the piano to go along with my songs I can play a little bit… so far I’m playing by ear I just don’t know how to match up my left hand chords with my right hand
Hello, well explained, thank you, I just wished I had to right hands. 🤓😬🤭.🎼🎶🎹🎵🎸.
I love ur method as a beginner
Excellent lesson, subscribed!
But... what is that plant behind you? It is stunning and i have a perfect empty space for one. Please tell me
Love your channel! You're also extremely funny btw
I have to use this method because I have dyslexia and can't tell what rows are what. I didn't really learn to sight read because the software that taught me didn't let me mark the beginning of each staff with the staff symbol or some point of reference. My eyes just jump around
Will she do more pop songs in the future?! Too many Beatles songs!! 🕊️☮️☮️🕊️
My biggest struggle is getting the lengths of the notes and the rythm of the piece correct. I have often thought I had figured out a piece of music I was unfamiliar with, only to run the same score through music reading software and finding my "interpretation" was way off.
My biggest problem reading fake book notation is looking at the treble notation and the chord symbols at the same time. I seem to concentrate on one or the other and not together. I do not learn any songs but rely on my reading ability to play the song. My goal is to become such a good reader of fake book notation that i will be able to play anything simply., without actually learning the song. Do you think this is possible ? thanks for your time GREAT VIDEOS . Mike U.K
Reading chords is by far my biggest struggle. ESPECIALLY when they are inverted.
And I thought I invented this method!! Lol. (Not really) BUT I DO teach this method and it works, simply because NOTE NAMES CHANGE, intervals DO NOT. (A 3rd is STILL a third, a 5th is the same no matter where it is played, etc etc. This really is a great method AND it’s the way professionals read music, simply because there isn’t time to figure out the names of the notes in real time, especially where there are lots of them played together, and/or quickly. Go with this method. You’ll save yourself YEARS of hard work.
AND I just love the idea of “Cat” for middle C, with the WHISKERS!!!! Genius!! I’m going to use it.
Intervals is how I read for both piano and guitar but not clarinet. Piano was the first instrument I studied as a kid. Intervals seemed so obvious that I didn't bother with memorizing absolute notes, which frustrated my piano teacher but made transposing by sight no more difficult that reading. We sing by interval. I always felt like intervals were for musicians and absolute note reading was for people who can't hear intervals.
I just started learning to read sheet music, I see how intervals translate relatively "easy" for piano since it is linear, however how do you apply this for guitar? The mapping from staff to fretboard isn't that obvious (to me).
@@mark.peters assuming you know your major (and minor) scales in at least 5 positions (each corresponding to the 5 basic chords shapes C, A, G, E, D) you just find your starting note then go up or down the number of scale steps that the music indicates without having to know the names of the notes.
I learned "FACE" and "All Cows Eat Grass" a long time ago, but I still have to think about what the notes on the lines are. Your method seems so useful, especially since I already know the notes in the spaces. What a great, practical tip!
Glad it’s so helpful, Jonathan! Happy practicing! 🎹
The more you do it the easier it gets until you don't even have to think about it, your fingers will just know where to go. Just like riding a bike or any other skill, the key is practice. Practice sight reading every day. And don't be impatient. You'll get there eventually and the reward will be great.
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Thank God a lot of us musicians don’t need to learn this stuff in order to create or perform our music .
Great video, never the less .
Hi,I’m an older learner but very familiar with other instruments and vocal and understands theory but now really wanting to read sheet music.So just from what you explained,for example,wen you said going down,you could have fully said,going back down a third in one sentence,Capiche?
But I’m getting what your gist is on interval reading with the recognised usual Egbert and face.Cheers
You're awesome
Hi I am James I like follow your piano course I'm using M-Audio midi player using on headphones software albeton live its grate for playing around on and record my playing and no one has to hear me repeat when practising. Any suggestion on downloading better sounds or songs .
So you could then name those lines by number. Middle C could be number one or zero and D could be 2 or 1 and so one.
Bass player here. The thing that trips me up is rhythmic notation. I got the notes down but when there's a dotted 8th tied to a 16th followed by a quarter rest or something like that I just completely loose it. I see other people just immediately tap it out like it's nothing. Very frustrating.
Kaitlyn, your content is extremely good and I would assume that your courses are as good. The thing is, I do not know what course you are selling, it's just not obvious enough. I bet you could close more deals if you flat out said it...."If you like my YT videos, you'll love my piano course, the link in the description brings you right to it". Your YT content is so good that it's all is would take. Good luck!
The notes where I have to stop and figure them out are the ones that are two to three lines below the last line or above the last line.
Great tutorials… for me… I struggle identifying sharps and flats…I’m learning to play the organ so chords on left hand are easier for me…👍base peddles mmmm🥴
Kaitlyn, I know I am dumb. as well as being Blind but where are the lines that you were referring to. it is the lines on the Tre quest and on face is that what the intervals are please help me. I have been playing for 18 months and can only play one song. it is driving me nuts I don't mind work but not on this keyboard. Will you help me?
Please help how I can read both left and right hand together because when I read right hand I cannot reach to left hand it is like my brain just on top of the page
I have a much more simpler trick. You only have to memorize TWO keys on the piano, which is the C for right hand and A for the left. Then put your fingers on the piano skipping one white key with your eyes on the sheet. Each of your finger is now correspond to one note located on the lines. You don't even have to know the names of the notes, just play whatever is located at your corresponding finger tip.
Yes mam playing left hand is very difficult .
This did not work for me. I learned the notes on the treble clef and I know the notes on the base clef but up two down three isn’t natural to me. My issue is playing different things in both hands. I play block chords in the left hand. I need help putting the chords on the right hand to play octaves or sixths in the left.
My biggest struggle with reading music is when the notes go way above or below the music staff. I can never figure that out.
Thank you. The relationship between notes are so helpful, I am still pretty slow in reading through, probably need more practice. I wonder how Stacy does her note reading? Any ideas?😂
When it comes to ledger lines, I'm lost😢
@@birgithade5022I found that the only way I could conquer ledger lines was by making flash cards with notecards and just memorize them by rote repetition. Tedious but effective. I created four categories: below the bass clef staff, above it, below the treble staff, and above it. I worked one group at a time, then combined two groups, then three, then all four with a metronome set at 50. The metronome is what tells you which ones you don’t know. 😊 To use this info in context, it helps to flip through music books and look for ledger line notes to see if I can name them “when it counts.”
Thanks. I'm gonna try🙋♀️
A piano is really a complex 3 octave guitar-----so creating TAB for this monster will be wonderful but challenging ---?
I like the idea of getting set in a 'starting' note and then using intervals to go to the next one, instead of decoding the notes on the page. My problem is that this will only work in the key of C (or Am, I guess). If I am in F, for example and my starting note is a G, then next note is up a third, I need to realize that the next note is a B so I can flat it. Or am I missing something?
Don’t think about the next note just keep working in the intervals. It will have a sharp or flat on the staff if the note is sharp or flat. Same as it would if you had to read the notes individually.
This is am afraid ismt helping me. Can read music but too slowly. I find i have to translate thr otes to letters, in fact i transcibed beethoven sonatas on paper then learnt them off by heart and played them fine, but 8 want to read music itslf at speed but have some dislexic typr problem. When i was five I wanted to be concert pianist but mum sold the piano, i finally was allowed to have one when i was. My biggest struggle are what Re thr notes above and below the stage, i come to a hault whilst I work them out.
Ledger lines are my biggest struggle , will definitely give this method a try , thank you
You got this!
The top 3 ledger lines spell ACE. The bottom 3 also spell ACE. Remember that and the rest falls into place quite quickly. The patterns used to identify the notes repeat all over the clefs. You only need them and the interval advice she's giving here in the beginning because eventually, you'll just know where to put your fingers. Good luck.
The hard part is not figuring out the notes, but the timing and the counting...
I met the Beatles when I was younger... performed with them, those guys could not read sheet music, which was my excuse when I was sick of reading it and going 'every good boy does fine' and so on... why the long way around going in circles to learn to read music? Just the though of it is a pain in the ass, after you get to a point you have learned a ton of shite they now go ooh by the way you could of done 'blah blah blah' all along... fuck all math teachers while we are at it lol. 4 plus 3 is saying 4 and counting 3 bitch not counting the hole thing like they wanted us to suffer lol. Going 4, 5 6 7, you know but no they want you to suffer first. I've even gone threw the college level music classes, by this time you have figured it out on your own look at the spacing between the notes. Their is no question in my mind that says anything not understanding the problems the Beatles had trying to read sheet music lol. The amount of musicians I know to this day who can not read sheet music, and then those who can but it is more on a simpler level as if to say 'every good boy does fine' is where they were with it like I once was.
how do you improvise chords and sound like the original song?
Dotted 8ths and 16ths… tight syncopation 🤷🏾♂️😬😳🫣
I always had an issue with teaching notes on lines and notes in spaces. If there is a note on the top line of the treble staff it's an F.on the line above that is an a and so on. It has some students confused because they want to see an F in a space. It isn't true of other clefs as she says. Know the first 7 letters of the alphabet and practice.
Having played guitar I always used sharps and have trouble getting my brain round-A is actually G# -dah of coarse.Any tips.
Sorry that’s A flat is actually G#