Learning To Play Piano – Reading Music
Is reading music really that important, if you want to learn how to play piano? The answer to this question, which is asked by many beginners, is short and simple – yes. Yes, it is important and it is certainly worth your time. If you want to be good at playing piano, you should be able to read music.
How can a bunch of symbols and letters make you a better player? They can help you in many ways, but you have to make sense of them first. For example, if you know how to read music from a piece of paper, you won’t have to memorize everything. It’s not so smart to depend solely on your memory. And it’s also very limited.
You will also gain a better understanding of musical elements. Notation is all about communicating musical ideas. It’s about writing music down so anybody can play it. What you have here are instructions, a very accurate instructions that tell you exactly how to play a specific song.
When you learn to understand these instructions, you will be able to play any song you want. You won’t even have listen to it first. You can probably imagine how great this would be. A whole new world will open up to you.
Besides, it’s not really that difficult to learn. I know, it may seem quite daunting, when you first see it, but everything is actually quite logical and neatly organized. Did you know that there are only seven letters in musical alphabet? Yes, just seven.
These letters are A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. They are the natural notes, which correspond to the white keys on the piano. In notation, all notes are placed on the staff. A staff has a series of horizontal lines and spaces on which different types of notes are placed. You have a quarter note, an eight note, a sixteenth note and so on. To play a note you must know its duration and pitch.
And that’s about it, that’s the basic concept. Practice makes perfect, of course, but the sooner you start, the better you will be.
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