Sunday, August 26, 2018

Start Simple With Basic Sheet Music

By Robert Gray


Many people are tempted to try to pick the most difficult thing they can find for their very first time reading this type of thing. If this is what you are thinking about, you may want to reconsider. You actually will have much better luck with basic sheet music than you will have with the most complex pieces you can find, and you won't advance a lot faster if you try something way above your level, contrary to what some people believe.

Some people might be discouraged easily and have a hard time pressing forward when things get difficult. If this is the kind of person you are, you might find ways to keep yourself motivated when things are at their hardest in the musical learning process. One of the ways that many people have helped themselves is with a friend who is their practice buddy, or by putting motivational posters up on the wall.

Sometimes you may have heard that practice makes perfect, and sometimes you might hear that said so many times that it just gets lost somewhere inside your head. The best thing you can do for yourself at that point is just sit down and really think about the words being said to you because they have a lot of truth behind them. You really cannot deny that it takes hours and hours of hard work to get better at anything difficult, and the only things that seem to be worth knowing how to do are the ones that have some challenges in store for you.

If you have never even heard of a time signature before, now is a great time to learn more about what it is and what it means. An easy way to explain it that doesn't take a lot of time or previous musical understanding is that it tells you how many beats are going to be in a measure, as well as how long each quarter note will be valued for. Most of the time, four-four time is what is used, also abbreviated to common time with a capital C, which means there are four beats in a measure, and a quarter note receives a count of one.

If you have never heard of what a time this sure is, now is a good time to learn. Sharps and flats will be noted in the very beginning of the piece. It is nice to know that when you start with a simple song like this, you will probably work mostly in the key of C, in which there are no sharps or flats to worry about at all.

If you are not sure how to count out notes, it has never been a better time to learn. The reason why it seems difficult is that you have to get the hang of keeping a steady beat. Once you learn the basics, it isn't that hard at all, and so you'll want to start out with quarter notes, half notes, and whole notes.

Note names are the key to understanding the musical staff. You might want to learn about the different methods of memorization when it comes to this kind of thing. That way, you won't have to keep your notecards with you all the time.

There are many symbols that you might see in a complex score. In something like this, you're likely to only see perhaps a sharp or a flat. These are easy to recognize since one looks like a lowercase B and the other like a hashtag.




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