This is The Fastest Method to Reading Sheet Music

European master Tim here and today I'm going to show you the

fastest

possible way to read

music

. I want to quickly mention that before you can understand the technique that we are going to talk about today, you must first understand two things: one. how to read notes using lines and spaces on the staff for the treble clef and bass clef. You should also know about intervals and how to use them to read notes faster. I'll walk you through quickly and get you up to speed if I don't know about that stuff, but if you know all these basics, jump right here in the video.

I'm going to put a timestamp on the technique we're going to talk about today, okay, so you have to know. on how to read notes in both the treble clef and bass clef now most of the time the treble clef will be played with the right hand the bass clef is played with the left hand and as you can see here the staff is made up of five lines and four spaces between those lines and as you can see I have a note here on each of the lines here the lines of the treble clef are the following e g b d and f you can also use a saying to remember all of these so that You can use them like every good boy deserves fries or something, as long as the first letters of the saying match, the spaces in the treble clef are as follows, the word face is spelled now, when you do

this

and you're solving

this

, for Please remember to go from the bottom of the staff to the top of the staff.

If you do it backwards you'll get the wrong notes every time, so for example g b d and f for lines vs spaces is fine. Continue with the bass clef The lines of the bass clef are quite simple: g b d f y a where the big dogs fight the animals. The bass clef spaces are all cows eat grass or ce g. Okay, you'll have to familiarize yourself with these. Some time passes. in this part of the lesson memorize the lines of spaces for each key because now what we are going to talk about are intervals, an interval is the distance between two notes and you can use them to read notes much faster, so if you have a note Let's say if at that moment you have another note, this is what is called unison, these are literally the same note and unfortunately on a piano with a single piano you can't even play a unison because you can only press a key once a time. the time. time, but just so you know and then the intervals go from there to what's called a second, which means they're two notes apart.

Let me show you here with the piano here so you have f and g, which is a second. and one thing I want to show you about the seconds, let me draw them like this, the seconds are so close together that they have to be stacked next to each other, they are still like on top of each other, but a little bit from left to right. bit because otherwise they would collide with each other. One thing I want to mention is that the intervals go from seconds to what we call octaves, which are octaves and actually beyond, but you should familiarize yourself with all the intervals of even numbers up to an octave.

They don't match and what I mean by this is that if one of the notes is a space, the other one is a line, so if I have this, I know it and we go a little further apart. Notice how they move from side to side for more of an upright posture here and they don't, they can appear differently, I'll show you in a minute, but this is an even number range, just identify it visually right away because this is a space and this is a line, now it's even? number interval no, they are both lines, so the even numbers do not match the odd number intervals, however, they do match. meaning if this is a space this is a space if this is a line this will be a line it doesn't matter if it's here here or even here, you know it's some kind of odd number interval, so use it to your advantage, seconds are very easy to identify because they are right next to each other, as I mentioned the thirds are easy to identify because it looks like the beginning of some kind of evenly stacked snowman and it doesn't matter where they are on the staff or even outside the staff, if it's stacked like this it's always a third and that just means these notes are three notes away one two three like that fourth don't match up and you have a little bit of space between them here but not too big and you know it's not a second because They're not together, they're a little bit further away There are four notes apart one, two, three, four, like this, so memorize where all these fifths are, they're always like this, where they are, you know they're stacked evenly, but there's always a empty space or an empty line in the middle so you know if this starts on a line it's going to be on a line because it's an odd number interval 5 and there's going to be an empty line there, that's how you find out that the fifths, by the way , are the same with the treble clef and the bass clef. key, so I'm just going to show you in treble clef this interval, what do you think it is?

Well, it has to be an even number because they don't match and it's one, two, three, four, five, six notes away, right there, so that's it. a sixth is like a fourth because a fourth was here, remember, but a little further apart and then the sevenths match well, but they are quite far apart, you actually have two empty lines or two empty spaces depending on where these bad boys fall, like this that if it lands here, you'll know it's a seventh right away and then, like I said, you'll want to learn up to an octave, which is the same note again, just an octave apart, eight notes apart one, two, three, four , five six. seven eight and in this case you want to count the note you're starting with and the ending note to make sure you get there so it's an octave right away.

These are all the basics that you need to know to know the next part, which is the main part of this lesson, okay, the reason we are here today is to develop this and today we are going to talk about the secret that I call groups of intervals or just groups of notes because they're not always intervals and explain it here in a second, so let's say we have something complicated like this where you have four notes, now you can individually read each note, say, okay, that's an e, the next is an f oh, next is a b, next is d okay, especially if you're I'm not used to

reading

the notes up and down the staff very quickly.

It will take you much longer than if you do this. Okay, here's a group that's an interval. What about the distance between here and that note? Well, that will be, let's see, there is a space here, there is a line there, which will be a fourth. Now first, it's going to take you a little bit longer, but trust me on this when you get super good at intervals, you know you'll be able to read them super fast, so let me switch it back to piano view here, there you go, you know your final grade and I would read that note alone, you know? there's a second, a fourth, one, two, three, four, four notes away and then a third stacked on top of there and it sounds absolutely awful because it's not a real chord, I'm just showing you as an example, groups are also useful for

reading

notes that are way up on the staff, like what the heck is this note up here, now you could if you could memorize the lines from your ledger, which I recommend you do anyway, what you can do is say, "Okay , the distance between these two is one third." and then the distance between these two is a fifth because they match like this, you read the bottom note d and then you know it's a third up and then a fifth up, which means the note above is c, the groups aren't just intervals and what What I mean by that is what I recommend that you do is really learn about your major minor diminished and augmented chords because what will happen is that eventually you'll read that and you'll be able to say, "Okay, those are stacks of thirds" and that's it. well, or you.

If you're that good with chords, you can say, "Okay, that's an F major chord," and I know exactly where to play it, so in the context of a piece that I'll show you here in a minute as an example, you're going to be able to select them and read them no problem now the chords don't always appear so they can appear maybe something like this let me put something here for us they can appear something like this where you have the bottom note of the chord and then the top notes of the chord like this, they can even appear one note at a time called an arpeggio, so something like this or you can read them as thirds from left to right, but it's easier if you learn how. to identify not only interval chords and then also what I'm going to show you now, which are scales.

Now teachers torture students with scales all the time, but it's not meant to be torture, it actually has a very good reason behind it. why we make you learn scales and one of the reasons is that if you are really good at scales you can learn to identify them by sight, it is not the only reason, there are actually many other good reasons that have to do with being able to I realize Realize that you know the notes that belong to a key, but anyway, if I see this pattern of notes here, I'm sure I can read each note individually or I could determine what the intervals are, things like that, but I can see it and identify it.

I immediately know that it is a C major scale and if I am used to playing the scale, I also know the correct finger pattern to use to play the keyboard up and down effectively. Let me show you a couple of real examples on real

sheet

music

. So this is a selection from the pathetic sonata and as you can see, things are getting pretty complicated here in this first measure, like what the hell is going on with that right hand, what the hell is going on with the left hand down here. Let's use our technique to find out what is happening in the world.

The first thing is that we probably know what the highest note in the treble clef is and you probably know that, hopefully, now the question is: what? Is this note here? Well, that note, think about it for a second, doesn't match correctly, so it's an even number interval of some kind and here's a little pro tip for you if you have a note, a note, and then the next. very high on the staff ninety-nine percent of the time it's an octave, now you want to check it to make sure, but most of the time it's an octave and I know it's an octave because I can identify them with the naked eye and it doesn't match either, so which means it's an even number interval, so I know that these are actually some kind of scale pattern, something like an F minor or maybe even a part of a flat major scale pattern that goes down an octave if you like. you want.

This lesson, be sure to hit the like button, lets other students know that this is a quality lesson that they too can learn from in terms of what they should watch next on YouTube if you felt like I went through the opening topics, which I did because I wanted to get to the heart of the lesson. Check out this playlist here where I have some lessons where I do things for beginners a little slower. How to read notes on the staff a little slower. slightly slower intervals