Reading Music - Notes On The Staff And Keyboard

Learn to instantaneously recognize notes

What you'll learn
You will learn to read notes on the staff (treble, bass, and grand staff)
You will learn to locate notes on the keyboard
You will learn the relation of the staff to the keyboard
You will learn to read upper, mid, and lower ledger lines
You will learn how to read sharps and flats
You will learn about octave signs
You will learn scientific pitch notation
Requirements
No previous musical knowledge is needed since it is a beginning course.
Description
In my 30 years of teaching I have noticed a huge mistake that most beginning teachers make that damages their student’s ability to read music. What is it? The use of mnemonics to help students remember the lines and spaces of the staff. For example, they may teach a student something like “Grizzly Bears Don’t Fly Airplanes” to remember the names of the lines of the bass clef staff.This might seem helpful at first, but in the long run it only hinders the student and slows down their ability to truly read music. As a musician, you need to be able to recognize pitches instantaneously. It takes time to run through a bunch of silly sayings just to name a pitch. This is time which you don’t have when you are actually reading and playing music.In this course you will learn to instantaneously recognize notes on the staff. You will do this through memorizing a small group of “landmark” lines and the pitches near them. You will also learn to locate them on the keyboard. Other items you will learn include, upper, mid, and lower ledger lines, octave signs, and sharps and flats.(This course is part of a series of courses on music fundamentals.)

Overview

Section 1: Treble Staff Notes

Lecture 1 Treble Staff Landmark Line 1 Notes

Lecture 2 Memorization Drills: Treble Staff Landmark Line 1 Notes

Lecture 3 Treble Staff Landmark Line 2 Notes

Lecture 4 Memorization Drills: Treble Staff Landmark Line 2 Notes

Lecture 5 Memorization Drills: Treble Staff Landmark Lines 1 & 2

Lecture 6 Treble Staff Landmark Line 3 Notes

Lecture 7 Memorization Drills: Treble Staff Landmark Line 3 Notes

Lecture 8 Memorization Drills: All Treble Staff Notes

Section 2: Treble Staff Keyboard Notes

Lecture 9 Keyboard Letters

Lecture 10 Memorization Drills: Keyboard Letters

Lecture 11 Treble Staff Relation to Keyboard

Lecture 12 Scientific Pitch Notation

Lecture 13 Memorization Drills: Treble Staff Relation to Keyboard

Lecture 14 Quiz 2.2

Section 3: Bass Staff Notes

Lecture 15 Bass Staff Landmark 1

Lecture 16 Memorization Drills: Bass Staff Landmark Line 1 Notes

Lecture 17 Bass Staff Landmark 2

Lecture 18 Memorization Drills: Bass Staff Landmark Line 2 Notes

Lecture 19 Memorization Drills: Bass Staff Landmark Lines 1 & 2 Notes

Lecture 20 Bass Staff Landmark 3

Lecture 21 Memorization Drills: Bass Staff Landmark Line 3 Notes

Lecture 22 Memorization Drills: All Bass Staff Notes

Section 4: Bass Staff Keyboard Notes

Lecture 23 Bass Staff Relation to Keyboard

Lecture 24 Memorization Drills: Bass Staff Relation to Keyboard

Lecture 25 Quiz 4

Section 5: The Grand Staff

Lecture 26 What is a Grand Staff?

Lecture 27 Memorization Drills: Grand Staff Notes

Lecture 28 Grand Staff Relation to the Keyboard

Lecture 29 Memorization Drills: Grand Staff Relation to Keyboard

Lecture 30 Quiz 5.2

Section 6: Ledger Lines

Lecture 31 Upper & Lower Ledger Lines

Lecture 32 Memorization Drills: Upper & Lower Ledger Lines

Lecture 33 Upper & Lower Ledger Lines on the Keyboard

Lecture 34 Memorization Drills: Upper & Lower Ledger Lines on the Keyboard

Lecture 35 Quiz 6.2

Lecture 36 Mid Ledger Lines

Lecture 37 Memorization Drills: Mid Ledger Lines

Lecture 38 Memorization Drills: Mid Ledger Lines on the Keybaord

Lecture 39 Quiz 6.4

Section 7: Octave Signs

Lecture 40 Ottava Bassa

Lecture 41 Ottava Alta

Lecture 42 Quindicesima Alta

Lecture 43 Quiz 7

Section 8: Sharps and Flats

Lecture 44 What are Sharps and Flats?

Lecture 45 Memorization Drills: Sharps and Flats on Staff

Lecture 46 Memorization Drills: Sharps and Flats on the Keyboard

Lecture 47 Quiz 8.2

Lecture 48 BONUS LECTURE: LINKS

Beginning students who want to learn how to read notes on a staff,Anyone who was taught to read notes using mnemonics and never learned to instantly recognize notes