Let's look at the rock, country and pop song books they sell at music stores. How do you think they write those books? You probably think that Eric Clapton, Carlos…
For many non-reading, ear-trained musicians, the best way to learn staff may not be to practice reading it. The best way to learn staff may be to practice writing it.…
Classically-trained players are sometimes put-off because a piece of music or a chord chart has a mixture of sharps and flats. Of course, it’s bad form to randomly mix sharps…
Let's apply Mr Rogers’ earlier question to reading staff notation. “What do you think about when you read staff notation?” What's the inner experience of reading music? The conventional description…
I'm not a classical musician. But I know something about how classical musicians are trained, and about how they teach, because I have worked next to them for years. I've…
"Sight-reading" means reading a piece of sheet music that you have never seen before. It's an important skill in many professional settings, and in nearly all academic settings. Music competitions…
PDF: Instructions to set up note identification app at MusicTheory.Net The Musictheory.net note ID app works from their webpage. There's nothing to download or install. If reading is important to…
Staff notation reveals certain kinds of musical structures at a glance, because they form recognizable shapes on the staff. The convention of writing the key signature at the beginning of…
Learning to sight-read in two clefs is a complicated task. All you can do is take the long view, learn how to read a small area of the staff well,…
PDF: Instructions for setting up the note-ID exercise at MusicTheory.Net Here is a free PDF of instructions on setting up the online note identification app at www.MusicTheory.Net. This is a…