Course Description

This Course is a step - by - step guide on how to read music. Knowing how to read music is a valuable skill. Knowing how to read music can also help you to write your own song. Knowing how to read music will help you to know how to play many instruments like the Piano, the Violin, the Saxophone and other instruments.


In this course, you will learn about many topics like Key Signatures, Major Keys and their Relative Minor Keys, the Stave (or the Staff), the Treble Clef & the Bass Clef, Accidentals, Time Signatures, Ties and Slurs, Sharps and Flats, Duration of notes and other musical topics.

Course curriculum

This Course contains 20 hours of Content

    1. Pitch, Bass and Treble Clefs, Stave, Ledger lines and the positioning of notes

    2. How to name the notes on a Music Sheet

    3. The Middle C | What is an Octave?

    4. How to easily remember the notes on a music sheet

    5. Letters/Names of the Keys on the Piano/Keyboard

    6. Musical Intervals

    7. Explanation of 'Natural' , 'Sharp' , 'Flat' and 'Enharmonic Equivalent' Musical Notes

    8. How to correctly draw a Sharp sign and a Flat sign

    9. How Sharps and Flats are written on a Music Sheet

    10. What is an Accidental? | What are Accidentals?

    11. Different types of notes and their durations

    12. Beamed notes

    13. Dotted Notes

    14. Rests

    15. The 32nd note (or the demisemiquaver) and rest

    16. Metronome mark

    17. Tempo instructions in words

    18. Multiple notes that are stacked on top of each other or that are placed close to each other

    19. Time Signatures (Part 1)

    20. Time Signatures (Part 2)

    21. Time Signatures (Part 3)

    22. Using the "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" Song to demonstrate Time Signatures

    23. "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" Music Sheet

    24. Another demonstration of a Time Signature on the Piano

    25. Further explanation of Time Signatures

    26. How to count and play the Rhythms of different types of notes correctly

    27. The joining together of 2 staves and the direction of notes' tails

    28. Introduction to Key Signatures

    29. What are Major Scales? | The C Major Scale

    30. Video for how to name the musical notes within a Major or Minor Scale Correctly

    31. How a Double Sharp and a Double Flat is written on a music sheet

    32. C#, D and E flat Major Scales

    33. E, F and F# Major Scales

    34. G, A flat and A Major Scales

    35. B flat and B Major Scales

    36. Tonic sol-fa

    37. Natural Minor Scales

    38. C, C# and D Natural Minor Scales

    39. D#, E and F Natural Minor Scales

    40. F#, G and G# Natural Minor Scales

    41. A, A# and B Natural Minor Scales

    42. The Natural Minor Scale's Tonic sol-fa

    43. What it means for a Song to be in a particular "Key"

    44. More about what it means for a Song to be in a particular Key

    45. Key Signatures (Part 1)

    46. Key Signatures (Part 2)

    47. How to figure out whether a song is in a Major or Minor Key

    48. How to find the key of a song (Part 1)

    49. Part 1b of How to find the Key of a Song

    50. Part 1C of How to find the Key of a Song

    51. Part 1D of How to find the Key of a Song

    52. Part 1E of How to find the Key of a Song

    53. Part 1F of How to find the Key of a Song

    54. Practical example of how to find the Key of any Song that is in a Minor Key

    55. D flat, G flat & C flat Major Scales and their Relative Natural Minor Scales

    56. Key Signatures (Part 3)

    57. How to write the Sharp and the Flat signs for Key Signatures

    58. How to recognise Key Signatures that have Sharps

    59. How to recognise Key Signatures that have Flats

    60. Effective technique that allows you to quickly tell which Key a music sheet is written in

    61. Scale Degree Numbers

    62. Accidentals

    63. Cautionary Accidentals

    64. Modulation

    65. Transposition (Part 1) | Tonic Sol-fa | The Number System

    66. Transposition (Part 2)

    67. Ties

    68. Slurs

    69. How to play a Slur

    70. Staccato

    71. How to play in a Staccato way

    72. Dynamic marks

    73. Anacrusis

    74. Repeat Marks (Part 1)

    75. Repeat Marks (Part 2)

    76. The pause sign

    77. Triplet

    78. Another Notation for Triplets

    79. An example of how to play a Triplet

    80. Major, Minor and Perfect Intervals

    81. Augmented and Diminished Musical Intervals

    82. The Definition of a Chord and the Definition of Harmony

    83. Definition of Triad Chords

    84. Major 7th Chord

    85. Minor 7th Chord

    86. Dominant 7th Chord

    87. Diminished 7th Chord

    88. Half-Diminished 7th Chord

    89. Extended Intervals

    90. Simple Intervals and Compound Intervals

    91. Detailed explanation of Simple Musical Intervals

    92. Detailed explanation of Compound Musical Intervals

    93. 9th Chords

    94. 11th Chords

    95. 13th Chords

    96. Playing an extended Chord without playing all the notes that make up the Chord

    97. Using Both Hands to play 9th, 11th and 13th Chords

    98. More about 9th, 11th and 13th Chords

    99. Chord Voicings and How to use 9th, 11th and 13th Chords

    100. Chord Symbols

    101. Further explanation of Chord Symbols

    102. The accurate definition of an Altered Chord

    103. What is an altered Chord?

    104. How to read Music in a fast and effective manner

    105. Ornaments | What is a Grace Note? | How to use a Grace Note

    106. Ornaments | Grace Notes | Acciaccatura

    107. Appoggiatura

    108. The Trill

    109. The Mordent and the Inverted Mordent

    110. Turns

    111. Arpeggiation or Spread Chord

    112. What is the Circle of Fifths and how do you build one?

    113. How to find the relative major and natural minor scales via the Circle of Fifths

    114. How the Circle of Fifths shows how many sharps & flats are in 12 Major Scales

    115. Conclusion
  • 115 lessons