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How to read notes in all clefs

Up to now, in our study of reading and writing music we have seen in-depth how to represent the duration of a sound.
Today we will finally get to understand how it is possible to represent the pitch of a sound. We will therefore learn to understand how the pitch of a sound can be represented by introducing two fundamental elements: the staff and clef

In this way it is possible to write the notes with their right pitch. However we will not stop here.

After this lesson, you will be able to read all notes

in treble and bass clefs
all other F clefs (baritone clef) and C clefs (soprano, mezzosoprano, alto and tenor)

So you will be able to recognize all notes on any music sheet!

Furthermore, we will learn to understand two essential concepts:

How to find an absolute reference sound (C4) on the music sheet
What are ledgerlines and how to use them

Finally, you will be able to find a pdf file containing all written notes in treble and bass clefs.

After this lesson you will be able to read music!

Learning material of this lesson

7 videos	45 mins
1. How to name the notes and distinguish their pitch	7m 55s
2. What is the staff?	8m 23s
3. What are the clefs?	5m 35s
4. How to read the notes in treble and bass clef	6m 21s
5. The other F clefs and the C clefs	5m 24s
6. How to read the notes written above and below the staff	6m 04s
7. We find a reference sound in order to play any instruments in all clefs	5m 51s
+ 1 pdf file

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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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