Hi my name is Walt Ribeiro and this week I will be showing you how to read music also known as sight reading. Real quick any questions you can simply email me at the address below, me@waltribeiro.net or you could just subscribe by channel and I am going to be calling up with something new so this is jump up right into it. Every note has three parts to it. A flag a stem, and a note head and we are going to do is it tells you different information not every note has a flag, not every note has a stem but every note will always have a note head.
Now it is important to mention though that this notes the different shapes of them and some have stems, and some have flags. All that it tells you are just simply how long you hold a note that is it and there is only two parts of the note the duration and the pitch and that is it.
Now let me explain the different notes. We have a whole note. Half note, quarter notes, 8th notes, and we have 16th notes also. Whole note gets four beats, now I am going to explain what a beat is in a minute that is what a whole note looks like is. Notice that the whole note has no stem and it has no flag. It only has is just an open whole note and that is it. You are just in open note head.
For the half note it gets two beats notice that this has an open note head a stem but no flag. Now the quarter note has a filled in note head, a stem, and no flag and the quarter note gets one beat the 8th note gets half a beat notice it is flag and the 16th note gets a quarter of a beat knows how it has two flags okay.
Now for those who are thinking okay well that is great but what is the beat. Well, this clock here is going on 60 beats per minute and the reason for that is because there are 60 seconds for every minute. So just think of a pulse or think of a beat a being just a steady pole so this is constantly going on a steady pulse 60 times every minute, 60 seconds per minute so this clock is going we refer to as 60 bpm’s and bpm stands for “beats per minute”.
So let us say that you are in a band and you want the drummer to play a 120 beats per minute you can actually just hold up this clock to him and say play twice as fast as that so instead of hitting on every second, he is hitting twice every second and then if you want to play at a 180 beats per minute you will say make sure that you hit three times for every time that this clock pulses. In some sense it will build at this point triple to over win that clock find.
So, just to clarify that when a song is faster it is going to be a higher beats per minute and likewise when the song is slower it is going to be a much slower beats per minute. So as we know the note duration let us discuss the actual notes on the staff. The way that the you would read them and so once you know the note durations and you know the notes of all the staff all you have to do is combine them and that is what sight reading is.
So, here we have what this is called is a treble clef okay and now there are different kinds of clefs for the most part treble clef is what you would probably be using as you get lower in pitch like a bass that would be a bass clef which looks like this but now we are not going to have to worry about that right now so let us skip that and then just jump right into the notes. There are five stamp lines okay and they go in alphabetical order.
So starting from the first line is E then walking out for every line space, line space it goes up alphabetically E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E, F, G and so on and so forth all they way up and all the way back down and the way you would write that is for the notes. If the notes on this line then it is going to be on E and it continues at G, A, B, C, D, E, F, G round and try to memorize every note only up and down.
The way that you can do it is to memorize just the lines and the lines go E, G, B, D, F because remember you are skipping every other space instead of going -E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E, F you are now going E, G, B, D.F and likewise for the spaces you are going F, A, C, E so you are just skipping the line. F, G, A, B, C, D, E, skip
