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How can we read the pitch of the notes?

In today’s lesson we will see more depth our piano piece!
We will try to understand how to read notes on the sheet music before playing them on the piano.

As playing is often difficult, it is better, before sitting at the piano, to know exactly which notes to play. In this way we learn where to place the beats which are the basis of reading notes. Once we have placed the beats, it is very easy (thanks to what we learnt in the music reading lesson) to know how to read the notes with their correct duration.

Since to play our music piece we need to know the pitch of the notes, we will learn to read the same notes in treble clef, which are normally used to indicate the notes played by the right hand.

So after today’s lesson, you will have learnt something very important in order to play many music pieces at the piano.

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Learning material of this lesson

5 videos	38 mins
Intro	3m 22s
1. The second step of our study method: simplify as much as possible the sheet music	3m 17s
2. How to place the beats	11m 51s
3. We determine the exact duration of the notes	10m 13
4. How to learn the exact pitch of the notes in treble clef.	10m 27s

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Reading notes

One word you probably heard uttered hundreds of times is rhythm.
But what is rhythm exactly?
Rhythm is that aspect of music that deals with the duration of sound through time.

The duration of sound is the first property of sound that we want to depict graphically.
This is the first thing we have to learn to understand how to read and write music.
In today’s lesson, starting from a series of intuitive and common concepts, we will be able to understand how to represent the various sounds and their duration through time.

How can we graphically respresent the silence?

And it won’t end there: music is also made up of silence, the alternating presence of silence and sound.
But since silence has a duration too, we have to understand how it can be graphically depicted.

After today’s lesson you’ll have seen the basic knowledge necessary to begin reading (and writing) notes, among others;

What a bar is in music, and its’ beats
What notes are and how to distinguish them by their duration
What we mean when talking about crotchet, minime and semibreve
What rests are and how to graphically depict them on paper

But you’ll especially have taken the first step into learning to read music, which is the first step to being able to play it on piano or any other instrument from the music sheet.

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Learning material of this lesson

3 videos	27 mins
1. What does it mean to keep time and what is a bar?	8m 27s
2. The first graphical symbol to represent sound: a quarter note	8m 07s
3. Other notes of different durations and musical rests	10m 39s