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Learning How To Read Piano Sheet Music
It's been a long time since I struggled to read piano sheet music, but I can remember spending hours reading through my first piano book, wondering what all the strange hieroglyphs meant! If you're struggling to get started reading music then I can sympathise. However, it will come to you and eventually it will become as second nature to you as reading and writing.
You can learn, to some extent, by ear, but if you want to make rapid and useful progress on the piano, you are going to have to read the sheet music.
Think of reading music like learning a language; once you know the rules and codes, it's easy to decipher. However, you will need a guide.
In a good piano lesson course, you’ll be taught at your own playing level, whether you’re a newbie to the piano or you've been 'tinkling the ivories' for a while using your ears only. Eventually, the pieces of the jigsaw will slot together and you'll soon be reading piano sheet music.
For example, if you decide to learn to play piano online, the Rocket Piano course acts like a guide and actually tells you when to repeat sections. It also shows the notes changing in size as you move from verse to verse.
The other online piano courses reviewed on these pages also help you to read music and, with a little bit of effort, you'll soon be wondering what all the fuss was about.
In my classroom teaching, I've found that kids easily pick up the 'language' of music, in a similar way that they have no fear of learning a new language. Adults seem to have the biggest problem because they 'assume' that it is going to be difficult and take years to master.
Not so!
Alan
