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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…

"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…

Because it’s relatively difficult to learn, modern-day design experts have criticized staff notation as a badly-designed system. In a controversial talk by Dan Formosa, he said of staff notation, "My…

MP3s have made music more compact and portable than ever. Most consumers, especially young people, traded their CDs and MP3 players for streaming music. But MP3 downloads are still the…

The purpose of mixing recorded music in stereo is to give you a realistic sense of how the instruments are placed with regard to left and right. Stereos use two…