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The 52 essential music reading exercises (part 5)

Practicing with semiquavers

Today we will introduce a very important exercise which you will find in a new figure to read,

Semiquavers

Thanks to the help of the introductive video and most of all the audio files in which all the exercises of the lesson are recorded, you will easily get over this difficulty too.

As you can see, you are becoming more and more expert in reading notes!

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Video Introduction to exercises
+ 1 pdf file
+ 5 audio files

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The 52 essential music reading exercises (part 4)

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How to sight read

Many people wonder how a musician is able to sight read a music sheet never seen before, for example on the piano.

It seems a very difficult thing to accomplish as it needs many years of study as well as a thorough knowledge of the instrument.

The ability of sight reading is really a very simple technique which can be learned even by beginners.

Today I will explain exactly what this technique consist in so that you will be able to apply it to all music reading exercises.

You will be able to apply it while playing the piano.

We will also introduce some new exercises which allow you to take a step further in reading notes

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Video Introduction to exercises
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+ 12 audio files

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The 52 essential music reading exercises (part 3)

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Reading pitch of notes quickly

Is there a way to practice reading the pitch of notes quickly?

This is what we are going to practice today!

In the video lesson today, I will explain which is the best way to learn to read the pitch of notes.

You will be able to apply this to the new reading exercises in the pdf files below, followed by audio files.

I advise to study on a regular basis as in short time you will be able to read music and play it on your instrument, whether it be the piano, guitar, flute or violin.

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Video Introduction to exercises
+ 1 pdf file
+ 15 audio files

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The 52 essential music reading exercises (part 2)

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In the lesson of today, we will continue with the study of 52 very important music reading exercises.

These exercises make up the basis on which many great European musicians were formed during the course of the last century. This is a demonstration of their efficacy!

Thanks to these exercises, you will read the notes but most of all, you will be able to play straight off written music on the piano, guitar or any other instrument you are able to play

As I explained in the previous lessons, you will be able to learn these exercises very easily thanks to the audio files below, which are numbered following the order of exercises on
Pdf files.
What is more, I have added a explanatory exercise which will help you understand how these exercises should be studied, in order to get the most out of them and optimize your learning.

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Video Introduction to exercises
+ 1 pdf file
+ 9 audio files

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Piano, a new piece to learn to play (part 4)

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Let’s play the whole piece

Today we will conclude this cycle of lessons in which you played a new piece.

We will focus on a detailed study of the most difficult passages and most importantly we will see the secrets of ‘changing row’.

We are now ready to introduce all the most difficult signs on the sheet music which contribute to make our piece even more musical.
We will see how to perform all the new signs which we analized in the first part of this first cycle of lessons (rall, fermata).

Now you are able to play a new piece which is more difficult than the first one

Most of all, if you want to play a new piece on your own, in which you find quavers and accidentals in key signature, you will know what to do.

You might not realize it but you are progressively learning to play the piano!

Learning material of this lesson

8 videos	45 mins
1. The first difficulty of passage of row	6m 24s
2. The second difficulty of passage of row	8m 39s
3. We tie the second and third row	5m 42s
4. Another suggestion for the last change of row	3m 39s
5. We play the whole piece	4m 31s
6. Some advice when studying any piano piece	3m 37s
7. We add expression symbols and dynamics	4m 37s
8. How to interpret new ‘tempo’ symbols and how to play them	7m 35s

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Piano, a new piece to learn to play (part 3)

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Studying the most difficult points

When people start learning the piano, they often try to do it from start to finish with the result that they contine to make the same mistakes. In this way, they never really learn to play that piece and lose a lot of time.

Why is this?

For a very simple reason. Learning to play a piece on the piano does not mean to play it hundreds of time from start to finish, wasting precious time.

To learn to play a piece, it is usually enough to identify the most difficult points and study them more in depth. Therefore today I will show you exactly how to study those difficult points.

With time, you will see that just like me you will be able to spot these points and study them in a more correct way.

In this way you will rapidly learn to play the pieces you want including the more difficult ones.

Learning material of this lesson

5 videos	30 mins
1. Learn to play the first row hands together 1	5m 11s
2. Learn to play the first row hands together 2	6m 09s
3. How to study the second row	9m 36s
4. We get to the last row	5m 47s
5. A general rule to link the various rows of a piece	3m 20s

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Piano, a new piece to learn to play (part 2)

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How to study hands separate

In the previous lesson, we analized in depth all the part relative to the sheet music of the new piece and mostly we learned to read the notes in a corret way.

Today we wil transfer all this knowledge to the piano!

Other than the fingering which as you know is fundamental to play a piece well, we will learn to play hands separate.

We will also try to understand how to move along the keyboard when playing a piece in which the black keys have to be used.

Since the piece we are studying starts to show new difficulties, it will be necessary to learn how to use the metronome correctly.

Learning material of this lesson

5 videos	30 mins
1. Identify the notes on our keyboard	7m 19s
2. Learn the correct fingering	4m 51s
3. How to set the hands correctly to play this piece	7m 20s
4. How to play hands separate and learning to use the metronome correctly	6m 55s
5. A trick to use the metronome when studying with a very slow tempo	3m 43s

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The 52 essential music reading exercises (part 1)

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Music reading exercises

Today we begin to practice some very important exercises.

In several lessons, we will learn to do exercises which progressively become more difficult and which in short time will give you the basis to learn music correctly.
Firstly, we will learn how to use the audio files which are found in each lesson.

Furthermore, if you follow fhe lesson which I show you, it will be like doing real reading music lessons with a teacher beside you.

Today we will do some very important exercises based on conjunct motions.

Enjoy your lesson!

Learning material of this lesson

3 videos	16 mins
1. Essential exercises of music reading	4m 38s
2. How to get the most of audio files	4m 55s
3. How to do exercises correctly	6m 28s
+ 1 pdf file
+ 5 audio files

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Piano, a new piece to learn to play (part 1)

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Let’s learn to play the second piano piece

Today we will start a new cycle of lessons in which you will learn to play the second piece at the piano.
Thanks to the study of this, we will put into practice many things that we have already learned

So let’s see which are the main new things. We will:

learn to play new figures such as the quavers
also use the black keys
get used to changes of rhythms of the melody
learn to develop a greater hands independence
introduce new graphic signs (the fermata..)
learn to use the metronome in the study of piano pieces

These are only some of the things that you will learn studying this new piece, other than the great satisfaction of playing a new piano piece

So I will stop talking and have a good lesson!

Learning material of this lesson

4 videos	31 mins
1. Presentation of the piece	5m 39s
2. We analize the sheet music, learn to interpret the accidentals in key signature and other new things	4m 40s
3. Reading the notes with their correct duration	9m 42s
4. Now we are able to read the single parts	11m 20s
+ 1 pdf file

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Music reading: do you want to practice in a very effective way?

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Music reading practice

Today we will introduce a new level of music reading practice.
It is a very important new type of exercise, which if done correctly will enable you to read any music sheet at first sight and play it immediately on your instrument.

In reality, despite music reading often being said to be boring and useless, it can be as interesting and exciting as playing the piano or guitar.

The important thing is to understand the basics from the start, combining them with the concepts we have learned up to now. In this lesson you will also learn a very important way to keep time in order to distinguish beats.

This will be very useful if you study music reading more in depth and most importantly of all if you want to write music on paper.

Moreover, before taking a look at all of these topics, we will finish what we started in the last lesson, that is learning to identify beats when the time signature is 3/4 or 2/4.

Learning material of this lesson

4 videos	22 mins
1. How to identify beats in 3/4	5m 06s
2. How to identify beats in 2/4	3m 26s
3. How to keep time in order to distinguish beats	8m 48s
4. A new way to keep time and an exercise to learn how to do it	4m 35s
+ 1 pdf file

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