How Do You Read Keyboard Sheet Music?
Reading music might feel as daunting initially as first learning how to read a book; it is, after all, a new language. By taking careful steps, though, you will be able to understand and successfully execute the notes on a piece of piano sheet music. After assimilating the methods, you’ll be able to sit down and interpret music as if reciting out loud from a newspaper. Open a piece of sheet music and look at the five staff lines that contain the notes and all other musical symbols. Understand the staff lines as the backbone of sheet music, where all musical notation is printed. Look to the left of the staff to see the treble clef, which is where all right-hand notes will go, with some rare exceptions of the left hand playing over the right. The treble clef looks similar to a cursive “S.” Under the treble clef is the bass clef where the left-hand notes can be found. Know that all bass notes have their stems pointed down as opposed to treble notes with stems pointed up. The bass clef loo