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I’m 75 and just starting to learn piano. You are really clear and helpful in your lessons. Thank you!

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This is a game changer. I've just been told to memorise the Ledger Lines. I've never heard anyone point out this shortcut. Or many of your other tips. Thank you. Liked and subscribed.

Thanks for making these videos! For those of us that don't have access to a formal instructor, these are a life saver!

Played guitar for many years, just by ear... Neuropathy in the left hand due to cancer has curtailed my guitar playing... so, decided to buy a keyboard. I've now been playing a month... am an old guy, 60, just getting started. Your videos ROCK! Saving me lots of time! And, finally doing it the right way, by learning to read the friggin' music. Thanks again... will sign up as a paying student; it's the least I can do for all the hard work you've done putting this together. THANK YOU!

You rock! Loved the tips! One that helps me is that middle C is the note between the staffs. So reading ledger lines above the bass clef is really reading the treble again. The first ledger line above the bass clef is middle C, second ledger line above is the E of the treble clef, and your reading treble again. Good job and very helpful!

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OMG -- the tip about correlating the notes which are off the ledger lines blew me away .. I've always struggled with this !

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Time Stamps 00:00 Today's Lesson is... 00:14 Tip 1 Bottom Top 00:30 Tip 2 Lines and Spaces 01:05 Tip 3 How to Keep it Simple 03:34 Tip 4 Ledger Lines Secret 06:09 Tip 5 Intervals 09:50 Tip 6 Chords 11:32 Tip 7 About Scales and Keys 12:15 Tip 8 The Most Useful Tip. Patterns 14:39 Tip 9 Where to Start Practicing From 15:10 Tip 10 The Most Important Tip of All Time

I found music repeats patterns quote interesting, because even Mozart's piano concerto 13 repeated some phrases. Near the end of the piece I noticed that the youtube originator had inserted a "ding" sound as a reminder to subscribe. So on listening to the entire piece, I noticed the ding was on top of a musical phrase that was a repeat of an earlier phrase. So I used a sound editing app to identify where this phrase was and pasted it on top of the ding, effectively eradicating it completely and making the musical piece enjoyable to hear.

Thanks for the tutorial!!!

Wonderful lesson. Thanks so much!

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Thank you, Tim!

Thank you! So much help!

Awesome tip about reading notes above and below the staff(s)

Dude huge shout out for putting so much effort into making these videos and helping so many people. You rock!

tip 4 is the most revolutionary thing I've ever seen!!!

Fantastic. Great presentation..

This is a very helpful video!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!

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Thanks!

Hey man! Cool video. I’ve a lot to learn with reading. Only thing I noticed is the mentioning of the “second”. In the first case, E to F I think it’s fair to identify it as a minor second/ half step. Because just a “second” could also identify a major second, which was your second example (A to B) Although I get it how it may have been an attempt to not overcomplicate things for the viewer. Thanks again!

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Great video!!

AWESOME TIPS!!!

As usual .... a very helpful video :)

Thanks for the video man!

Awesome. Thanks

Thank you!!

Tip #4 is great!

Very good Tipps thanks🥰🥰

love your videos - learning so much especially during the pandemic. Thank you! See you're sporting longer hair and no cap : )

Thanks for your lesson, it’s very clear and brought with a slight sense of humor. I’m definetly going to watch all your video’s!😀

I am learning about modes and knowing my intervals is a huge help.

I am a beginner. Your tips are very helpful and useful for me. These are all what I wait for all the time. Thank you. Regard, from Indonesia

Amazing insight, thank you. As previously mentioned I am learning the cello. Lessons start on the D string (middle line up to fifth line) and A string (fifth line plus upper ledger lines). Next G sting (bottom line up to middle line) followed by C string (lower ledger lines).

You’re an excellent teacher.

Tim, I haven’t seen your videos in 2 years. Looking great man!

Bass Spaces: ACEG or /eiseg/ Treble Spaces: FACE or /feis/ remember that

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Merci for these rapid fire tips. It helped a lot.

I need this video a long time ago.

oh, I love this! Just stumbled upon your site.... wishing I could play the piano so that I could play Stardust! Well, practice, practice, practice I guess! Thanks for this info

So glad I found this channel.

Another tip: notes on Bass Clef are the same of the Treble but starting from G: GBDFA (upper from A are ledger lines, entering on Middle C, etc) Thank you so so so much for your videos! Subscribing 💜🎶🎵🎶

Watched this with headphones on, the explosion at number ten made me jump ! lol

That confetti bomb going off at the end though...scared the hell out of me

I watched this a year ago and didn't pay attention to sightreading, and I was stagnating. As soon as I really applied myself to sightreading, my playing improved 10 fold. it's the one skill that really helps all the others.

Great Video 🎥! I Learnt Heaps! MPGA (Make 🇮🇹 Piano 🇬🇧 Great 🇫🇷 Again 🇺🇸!) From New Zealand

Hi, great video. What program you use for demonstration. Thank you.

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BRILLIANT TUTORIAL...VERY WELL PRESENTED! Still a small correction. at 4:13. I'd suggest just HAMMER IN: in the G clef: GBD; and in the F clef: BDF. Honestly: that really helped me a lot to extrapolate from those 2 points on. P.s. going down just the same: in the G-clef: CAF; and in the F-clef: ECA.

Just out of curiosity do you have experience in VFX and video editing? Cause your vids are insanely high quality.

Thanks Tim. Very useful advice.

Melody Music Publishers books "Drill & Excel On the Piano" doesn't use acronyms to learn the note names, but rather in alphabetical order by line-space, showing the logic of the notes.

It was FUDGE, not fries when I was coming up. Sign of the times lol

do these lessons on reading music apply to guitar as well?

Happy birthday

What's the intuition behind reading from the bottom up being better?

I want to learn from scratch.. What kind of keyboard should I buy?

Whats the name of the book in minute 12:32?

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My advice: EGBDF and FACE are "day one only"! Lose that habit immediately! Make up flash cards with one card for a different note on the grand stave (the one with the bass clef and treble clef combined with a brace). Put the stave and note on one side of each card, and the name of the note on the other side. For at least one hour a day, sit in front of your keyboard and have an assistant flash/confirm the cards as you play the note and say it. The goal is to INSTANTLY identify the note, play it, and say it - all at the same time. I recommend that cards be color coded by octaves. Each octave starts on the C by convention. So Middle C is C4 (C in the 4th octave), but the note below it is B3 (B in the 3rd octave). Note: Some camps call "Middle C" C3 and not C4. I suggest using C4 as it is the MIDI standard for Middle C. Using flash cards within an octave, you can first train within an octave so you can sight read WITHOUT looking at the keys (using relative spatial presence by hand) then add octaves as you master a single octave. That is your goal: See the note anywhere on the stave, and instantly say it as you play it without looking at the keys. Why not sing the note too! Remember in your private studio, nobody can hear you scream.... ahh, sing [laugh]. Also, a set of cards with intervals, and another set with common chords. Then a set with "phrases", a series of notes and chords that are used often in music. You will be surprised how many phrases are used over and over again in music...it's not stealing, think of them as words or phrases of speech. A trill is one: two notes about a whole tone apart that are played back and forth rapidly. In fact, trills are used so often only the first two notes are drawn (or even one that defines the lower note), then a wavy line after it lasting for as long as you "trill" the notes.

RD700SX I have one of those

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Reading music is easy if you work really hard. If you don't work really hard, it is not easy.

as someone literally looking for how to read music as a complete beginner; I'm thoroughly confused and very intimidated. I think I'll have to look for an extreme beginner guide to reading music :(

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Here's something I figured out Line just above the treble clef - A Line in the middle of the treble clef - B Line between the clefs - C Line in the middle of the base clef - D Line just below the base clef - E

Funny how there are so many ways to remember the notes. I learned these Every Good Boy Deserves Fun Great Big Dogs Fight Animals All Cars Eat Gas

I found it very disturbing that you talk so fast and the pictures are also going to fast

Don't learn sheet music, it's a waste of time. Learn basic note placement, then chords, then try synthesis, it's way faster. Music language is too messy

Too fast

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