How to Read Music: A quick and simple guide to sheet music and playing the keyboard (easy piano songs) - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

The book ‘How to read music’ is part of the ‘Easy Piano Songs’ series of books.

In the book you will find explanations of all the key principles that will enable you to read music – in a simple way.

The book’s contents have been divided into two parts.

One of them describes only the most important issues and absolute basics of learning to read music. As a result, you will quickly get the hang of it and start playing.

The second part expands this knowledge and provides further information to enable you to improve your playing, and clarifies further practical aspects of reading music.

The book contains:
GETTING TO KNOW THE KEYBOARD
Basic information
Black keys
The quickest way to find the right keys

READING MUSIC
The note
The staff
The treble clef
The position of notes in the main (middle) octave
The position of notes in other octaves
Black keys in sheet music
The bass clef
Tones and half tones
The key of a song
Duration of notes
Rhythmic values
Rests
Additional symbols
The dot
Tie
Irregular rhythm groups (tuplets): triplets, quintuplets
Bars
Meter
Tempo

PLAYING WITH THE LEFT HAND
What is a chord?
How to make major and minor chords
Major (happy) chords
Minor (sad) chords
Inversion chords
Other types of chords
Seventh chords
Sixth chords
Fifth chords
Ninth chords
Diminished chords

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