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About me...I am a programmer. Projects: Calculator made in html, css, and js, and This webpage. I have also made a little typing game inspired by monkeytype.com, Ironically it was also made in html, css, and js.
I also enjoy music here is a little tutorial on how to read sheet music.
For demonstration puposes lets just say that this is your piano.
c# d# e# f# g# a# b# c# d# e# f# g# a# b# c#
|c|d |e |f |g |a |b |c |d |e |f |g |a |b |c |
Now from just taking a look at this, you might think: This does not look like a piano at all!
And you would be partially right. They are notes! Instead of showing white notes and black notes, they show the note names!
For now lets just say the notes with c#, d#, e#, etc, are all black notes and the ones without # are white notes.
Now why did i show the note names and not just the piano? Well, it ties into how you read sheet music!
you see this is what sheet music looks like, or at least how it looks like without a clef.
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Clefs are required for reading sheet music properly. They can change the value of the notes you are reading.
On the piano, the treble clef represents the right side of the piano notes.
It kind of looks like an S and it is typically shown before the lines of the sheet music.
This sheet music lesson will teach how to read the notes on the treble clef.
You may think that learning only the treble clef at the beginning will be useless, as on the piano there is typically two clefs used in songs, However, if you are just starting, there are simple melodies you can play that utilize just the treble clef, So its a good place to start.
Now what was that little o i showed?
That was an e
If you know the names of notes on a piano, and know the names of notes on sheet music you can simply look at sheet music, find what notes it is instructing you to play, then just play those notes!
Starting from the bottom to the top, the lines on the treble clef are as follows: e, g, b, d, f
Now you should be able to reference the example of a pianos notes as shown above, read lines on sheet music and play notes!
However, I have not gotten into accidentals, or spaces yet.
Accidentals are simply going one half step right or left. What does that mean? Lets say you want to play d# the # symbol means sharp, when you see # that means you are going to want to play a half step to the right, how do you play a half step to the right? Well lets look at the note d, it sits between two accidentals c# and d# which are both black notes on the piano and since with the # accidental you play the black note that is closest to the right of d you would not play c#, which is the black note that is the closest black note to the right of c
And if you encounter a flat accidental, which looks like a lowercase b next to a note, that just means you play a half step to the left.
But what if there is no black note the right or left of of the note with an accidental? how will you play a sharp or a flat? simply play the white note that is closest to the left if its a flat, and play the white note that is closest to the right if its a sharp.
Spaces are simply the space between lines. They also just mean notes to play and can also be sharped or flattened
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That little o is a space, you will not see ... in sheet music, that is just used to show where the o is being placed.
That o in particular is an f, and from the bottom space to the top space, it goes: f, a, c, e yes, f, a, c, e like your face.
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