[0:00] all right in this video i'm going to
[0:01] teach you as quickly as i can how to
[0:03] read notes on a page so first here's a
[0:05] piece of music we have the title at the
[0:07] top the composer in the upper right hand
[0:09] corner and the music below
[0:12] all these dots with stems are notes and
[0:14] correspond to an exact note on the piano
[0:17] for example this note here is g but it's
[0:20] not
[0:21] that g or
[0:23] that g it's specifically
[0:25] this g
[0:27] so every note is an exact note on the
[0:29] piano and reading music is just reading
[0:32] these exact notes and playing them left
[0:34] to right
[0:36] these notes are all lined up together so
[0:38] you play them together
[0:39] [Music]
[0:41] as you move forward it's just like this
[0:44] [Music]
[0:52] okay now that you understand that each
[0:53] of these notes corresponds to an exact
[0:56] note on the piano and playing notes is
[0:58] just playing it left to right
[1:00] now let's get into actually how to read
[1:02] these notes so notice these notes fall
[1:04] into two areas a top area and a bottom
[1:07] area each of these areas is called the
[1:09] staff the foundation upon which notes
[1:11] are drawn now notice both staffs have a
[1:14] different sign the top sign is called
[1:15] treble clef and the bottom sign is
[1:17] called bass clef what kind of notes does
[1:19] a bass player play while he or she plays
[1:22] low notes so the bass clef covers all
[1:24] the low notes on the piano the treble
[1:27] clef
[1:28] covers all the high notes
[1:30] now notice in each staff how many lines
[1:32] are there
[1:33] if you counted correctly you'll see that
[1:35] there are five lines with four spaces in
[1:37] between those lines notice that the
[1:39] notes in the music either fall on a
[1:40] space or on a line there are notes that
[1:43] fall outside of the staff as well these
[1:46] are called ledger lines and we're going
[1:47] to get into that very soon now here we
[1:49] have a clean staff and here the first
[1:51] line in the treble clef is an e
[1:54] however the first line in the bass clef
[1:57] is a g
[1:59] the second space from the top is a c
[2:03] but in the bass clef that same note is
[2:05] an e
[2:05] [Music]
[2:07] the lines and spaces are different in
[2:09] both clefs so reading music becomes a
[2:12] memorization challenge how music
[2:15] teachers have approached this challenge
[2:17] is by giving students mnemonics to
[2:19] memorize like every good boy does fine
[2:22] memorizing that phrase helps you
[2:23] memorize the five lines of treble clef
[2:26] are e g b d f
[2:29] and the spaces are face f a c e the bass
[2:33] clef also has its own mnemonics to help
[2:35] you memorize the lines and spaces there
[2:36] as well
[2:37] the problem with this method is if you
[2:39] want to play the last line
[2:41] of the treble clef you have to think
[2:43] every good boy does fine oh it's an f
[2:47] that's slow and painful because you have
[2:48] to go through the whole acronym to get
[2:50] to that f it also teaches you to
[2:52] memorize that that line is an f but it
[2:54] doesn't teach you which f one thing you
[2:56] can get from looking at this picture is
[2:58] noticing a pattern notice as you go from
[3:01] line to space to line to space you're
[3:03] moving up the alphabet you're moving
[3:04] consecutive letters so the first line
[3:07] there is e right every and then you go
[3:09] to the space which is f you know the f
[3:11] in face then the next line is g then the
[3:14] space is a and you go
[3:16] up to b and the next space is c right
[3:18] then line space line you're at f
[3:21] and that's the pattern of going from
[3:23] line to space you're moving up letters
[3:25] now another important concept is what if
[3:27] we want to keep going higher well we
[3:29] have the final line there at f
[3:31] we know that you have to go line space
[3:33] line space so the next thing has to be a
[3:34] space so we draw the g at the top of the
[3:37] line it doesn't have a line running
[3:39] through it so it's technically space
[3:41] and then we have the g there now what
[3:43] happens now that we've ran out of lines
[3:45] because after a space is a line so what
[3:47] you do is you start drawing your own
[3:48] lines and these are called ledger lines
[3:51] so the next note is going to be an a we
[3:52] know right after g is a and it's going
[3:54] to look like this so now we have our a
[3:56] which is on a line and now we need a
[3:58] space so we draw the line and we draw
[4:00] the note right above it so it's a space
[4:03] and then we need a line again so we draw
[4:05] two ledger lines and we have a c
[4:08] and you can just continue this pattern
[4:10] and that's how ledger lines work so
[4:11] you're just drawing in the lines and it
[4:13] also works as you go below a staff for
[4:16] example in the bass clef like here
[4:18] so with this knowledge now of lines and
[4:20] spaces we can replace every good boy
[4:22] does fine with what i call the landmark
[4:24] system instead of memorizing 18 lines
[4:27] and spaces in a specific order memorize
[4:30] just a few landmarks evenly spaced
[4:32] across the keyboard so our first
[4:34] landmark in the music is middle c
[4:37] right here so middle c is the c in the
[4:39] middle of your piano it's the fourth c
[4:42] from the bottom of an 88 key keyboard
[4:45] and the third c from the bottom on
[4:48] smaller sized keyboards
[4:50] now our next landmark is treble g
[4:54] see it's going to be the second line
[4:57] from the bottom in the treble clef so
[4:59] the second line from the bottom is
[5:00] treble g
[5:02] now see how we can connect the two
[5:03] landmarks you have middle c
[5:05] then after above that you have d right
[5:07] line to space then you have the next
[5:09] line e
[5:11] and then you have space f
[5:13] and then look you're at g
[5:15] c d e f g
[5:18] treble g is the g above middle c
[5:21] now our next landmark is in the bass
[5:22] clef
[5:23] this is going to be bass f right you
[5:25] have an f in the bass so that's going to
[5:27] be
[5:28] here
[5:29] and that is the f below middle c
[5:31] notice what happens when we move up from
[5:33] bass f so we have f on a line then space
[5:36] is g
[5:37] line a space b
[5:39] and then line ledger line right there
[5:42] middle c
[5:44] middle c is the first ledger line above
[5:46] bass clef and the first ledger line
[5:49] below treble clef so a lot of people
[5:51] when talking about landmarks write out
[5:53] three landmarks like this middle c looks
[5:55] the same in base clef and treble clef so
[5:57] it's just right there in the middle
[5:59] notice also that g and f are equally
[6:02] four notes away from middle c so you
[6:04] have middle c here you have treble g
[6:06] here and you have bass f there between c
[6:09] and g you have three letters
[6:11] d e f and between f and c you also have
[6:13] three letters
[6:16] and visually you can see a sort of
[6:17] relationship treble g is the second line
[6:20] from the bottom of treble and bass f is
[6:22] the second line from the top of bass
[6:24] clef now that we've memorized these
[6:26] landmarks figuring out the notes around
[6:27] them is easy if this is g what is this
[6:30] note well it's right above g right so
[6:32] right above g is a
[6:34] and this note here would that be well
[6:36] it's right above middle c
[6:38] so it's d
[6:39] and this note here it's below f so it's
[6:43] e
[6:44] alright so now that we have these three
[6:45] core landmarks let's expand outward to
[6:48] the next landmarks so our next two
[6:51] landmarks are treble c and base c notice
[6:53] again you're expanding equally outward
[6:56] so you have your treble g
[6:58] and your bass f now you go three letters
[7:00] out
[7:02] and you have your two cs so you have
[7:04] your
[7:05] base c
[7:06] and your treble c
[7:08] and notice that they look visually very
[7:10] similar too so
[7:12] again with the treble from the bottom up
[7:15] it's the third
[7:16] space
[7:17] and in the bass clef from the top bottom
[7:20] it's the third space and again we can
[7:23] just figure out notes around it so what
[7:24] is this note well it's above c right so
[7:27] it's a d what is this note it's below c
[7:29] so it's a b
[7:31] and if you wanted to go even lower
[7:33] what's this note well it's just two
[7:35] notes below c so it's an a abc right cpa
[7:38] all right now let's expand out again to
[7:41] our next two landmarks and what we have
[7:43] is high g
[7:45] and low f
[7:46] [Music]
[7:47] and visually they look very similar too
[7:50] high g is touching the top of the clef
[7:53] in treble clef and low f is touching the
[7:56] bottom
[7:57] of the bass clef right it's the space
[7:58] that's touching the outsides
[8:00] and say we look at high g here right
[8:02] above high g is our first ledger line
[8:05] that's an a then we have the space b
[8:08] then we have two ledger lines c
[8:10] and that's our final landmark so we have
[8:13] high c
[8:14] which is two ledger lines out can you
[8:16] guess what low c is gonna look like
[8:19] well it's always gonna be like a mirror
[8:21] right it's always gonna be an inverse so
[8:23] two lines out is high c two lines
[8:26] out is low c so two lines below the bass
[8:29] clef
[8:30] so there we have it we have our nine
[8:32] landmarks in treble clef the landmarks
[8:35] are just c's and g's and in bass clef
[8:37] the landmarks are all c's and f's
[8:40] visually it's easy to remember on the
[8:42] outsides you have
[8:43] high c
[8:44] and low c which are two ledger lines out
[8:47] and then you have
[8:48] high g
[8:49] and low f which are touching the stabs
[8:51] on the outside right just on the space
[8:53] and then within the clefs it's inverse
[8:55] so you have your treble c which is three
[8:58] lines from the bottom of treble and you
[9:00] have your bass c which is three lines
[9:02] from the top of bass
[9:04] and then from there you have your
[9:06] treble g which is two lines from the
[9:07] bottom
[9:08] and you have your bass f which is two
[9:10] lines from the top
[9:12] and then right in the middle you have
[9:13] your middle c which looks very similar
[9:15] in the treble and the bass clef and
[9:17] because now you know the line and space
[9:19] relationships you can figure out the
[9:20] notes around these landmarks very easily
[9:23] and if you memorize these nine landmarks
[9:25] you'll have access to all these notes
[9:28] if you're interested in becoming a fast
[9:30] note reader i've actually already
[9:32] created a note reading boot camp where i
[9:35] go in depth on this method and drill you
[9:37] through exercise after exercise until
[9:39] you can read notes really fast feel free
[9:42] to check that out in the description
[9:43] below alright thanks so much for
[9:45] watching and i hope to see you again in
[9:47] another video