How to read music
Dive into music reading basics, including the staff, clefs, and time signatures, to start understanding written music.
Preview
In this lesson, we’ll start reading music! We’ll explore the staff, also called the stave, which has five lines and four spaces, each representing a different note. We’ll start with the treble clef for the right-hand notes. Next to the clef, you’ll see the time signature. We’re using 4/4, meaning four beats per measure, with each beat represented by a quarter note. Music is divided into bars, much like words in a sentence, separated by bar lines. We’ll practice reading notes, counting beats, and following bar divisions!
About the instructor
RSL Awards (Rockschool) is the world's foremost awarding body for contemporary Arts. It is known for its groundbreaking approach to popular music education, with learning material for guitar, drums and piano perfeced over decades.
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65 lessons (1h 49m)
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