How Do You Read Piano Music By Intervals (For Beginners)?
Many beginning music students are taught special mnemonic devices to help remember the names of the lines and space of treble and bass music staves. I discuss this in another article. While it is certainly important to know these mnemonic devices, and to recognize notes quickly, it is very important to learn how to read music by intervals, rather than struggling to name each note. Stated another way, you want to try to quickly break the habit of using the mnemonic devices to name each note, and start thinking about how each note is related to the note before it. This is a very basic article that only scratches the surface of this topic, but it will get you started with the idea. It assumes that you know how to read music at a basic level, and are familiar with the keys on a piano. Look at the music notes in the picture on the left. A beginning student might recite the acronym EGBDF to determine that the first note is a D. Later you will just recognize the note just as easily as you wou
