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I've played piano for years when I was younger and no teacher ever mentioned identifying intervals like this, Thank you!

Reading sheet music is like reading a book (each phrase is a sentence, each chord or cluster of notes is a word and each note is a letter). You don't read a book letter by letter, whole words and sentences pop in front of you and the meaning appears in your head. Same with notes. Clustering is great, however, there are annoying circumstances, like being in a scale that has e flat in it and having to read that first chord with perhaps sharp on f - whoops, instead of second we suddenly have minor third. That can be maddening, but just like in a language, to be better at reading or speaking, one has to experience seeing/hearing a lot of words/sentences in order to decipher them more succesfully in future. Luckily, the dictionary for music is pretty thin - there are very few notes, so to really learn how to sightread one has to...sightread. Same as with language, if you want to master another language, you have to speak that language and read books in that language...sure, at first, it might feel clumsy, awkward, you might have to reach for a dictionary to translate a complicated word (= double-checking what that note several ledger lines up is), but after enough practice it will feel less burdening and more enjoyable.

I've been playing guitar and piano for over 10 years by ear and general music theory, but this makes me actually want to take the leap into conquering sight reading once and for all! Thanks for the inspiration. I'm going to check out your site while I'm at it.

I’ve played piano for pretty long and no teacher ever taught me this and it’s so unbelievable helpful, thanks!

THIS IS GOLD! Please, don't ever take this video down.

One thing that I haven't seen mentioned in any of these basic how to read music videos is a little tip I learned somewhere years ago: An alternative name for the Treble Clef is the G Clef. You will notice that the upper tail curls around one of the lines of the staff, and that's the G line. In the Bass Clef, also called the F Clef, those two dots are above and below the F line. In the early days of musical notation, those symbols were forms of the letters "G" and "F" respectively, and it's been passed down to us, although we now just see them as symbols. So, any time you might have gotten lost on the staff, and temporarily forget the "Every Good Boy deserves Fruit" or "All Cows Eat Grass" mnemonics, looking at the clef for the staff gives you a little anchor to fix the rest of the notes on to.

I've watched a ton of videos on reading sheet music, and this one by far is the best one I've watched. He explains it in a way that's super easy to understand. Thanks so much.

Lies, that Em7b9 sounds luscious.

"You will need to know how to read notes on the staff" _puts 5 crotchets in a single 4/4 measure_

Such a useful lesson to those of us who are slow when trying to read music. I really like this sped up method. Instead of analysing each note, looking at their spacing/intervals. So helpful and clear.

Wow! I am a senior who has played the piano since I was a child. Never learned this technique. Thank you!!!

Again little new in this video for me, yet I'm pleased to confirm I was right there and there and even there. Thank you, master!

Wow, this answers all my nightmares.. I will be having my first piano lesson tomorrow. Thanks :)

Cool ! This will really help me instinctually read sheet music! I’ve been improving lately so this video is really exciting!

I have been doing piano lessons for a year and playing longer on my own I am in John Thompson grade two and my piano teacher said to work more with intervals ! Thank you so much fun for sharing this !

Yep I agree completely with the octave trick, almost every piece I've seen does that very high-up notes and 99% of them are octaves. And it's nice that I've known most of the trick here already, I'm making a huge progress on reading sheet music

Hey Tim, I just had a lightbulb moment after viewing this lesson on odd/even intervals....and now find it freakin easy to read notes on ledger lines, using this "tool." Thanks so much!

I’ve been playing piano for awhile now, and I found this to be very helpful in reading sheet music. I have improved a lot thank you.

Helped so much! Thank you

I already knew most of the stuff in this video and I till picked up some new tips. Great work, Tim.

omg ive been struggling reading music sheets when i was a kid and i am watching it right now for a refresher, thanks for helping

This is a game changer. I've been reading a letter at a time and now I'm reading words. I've never heard anybody teach this before, everyone else just says keep practising a letter at a time and you'll get faster, and eventually read words. Thank you. Liked and subscribed

Yes!!! This is exactly what I’ve been trying to explain to people!!!

You are a SUPER-DUPER teacher. Thank you so much, Tim ! :)

I love this so much. Thank you for posting and thus helped me solved something that’s so frustrating to me right now. Can’t wait to practice!

This lesson is great. These intervals tips are definitely helpful. I can already feel how I can read notes faster

I have posted this comment to several different tutorials. I am thankful for what has been offered to new musicians and old ones like me. I'm a 60's trained musician that took lessons from the little old lady down the street every Thursday. The cost was $3.00 an hour. That was a lot of money for my folks back then. I continued playing and studying to this day. I also still come right back to beginners lessons and refresh my knowledge. Thank You Again. Young musicians have no idea of the value of what you are doing here.

Wow, thanks for this lesson! I feel like this has unlocked something in my brain and i can now play way more easily. 🙏

You’re an incredibly good teacher, wow. This made note reading a more easier system for beginners like me, damn. I’m trying to get back into playing after years of hiatus and this video helped a lot.

Thank you for your work and putting this together for us!

Thank you.This is the best sight reading tip that I've seen 😘👍

Clear as day, cheers!

Thanks for the tips. Very helpful.

Thanks for sharing that, best I've seen on this

Great video, it was a huge help.

A quality lesson for sure!!!

Fantastic technique!

love the lesson!!! awesome!

Thanks for the great tips 👍👍

Fantastic lesson!

tysm this video was sososo helpful!!

Thank you so much for this! I’m teaching myself for about a week now and this is probably the best video I’ve seen on this

You are amazing teacher!! Thank you 💕💕

I have a B.A. in Music (voice), and you taught me things I'd not noticed! Thank you for this valuable lesson!😁

Hi, thanks for the lesson. well appreciated

I love all your lessons. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Such a great lesson. I like lessons like these, that provoke the student, they give you the trick and entice you to put it into practice

wow! thank you very much for it

I enjoyed this lesson very much. I play basic notes by ear but have always wanted to learn to read notes. You have explained how to read notes easily. I will try your technique on my keyboard. Thank you very much. You are a good teacher. God bless

Thanks so much for lesson. I have subscribed and have saved this video to my library so I can keep going back it. You are awesome 👍

I started playing on 10/11/20, love this channel!

Thanks! I'm struggling with reading notes for a long time. I was trying to remember where each note is and I was reading them individually hoping that one day I will be fluent at this. It seemed to me that you need some kind of super brain to read it at an acceptable speed. I will try your method now, but I can already see that it was the missing part :)

Thank you, man! That's really helpful

The lightbulb came on! Great!!

Helpful. Thank you

A very helpful video. Thank You.

Great lesson, very helpful, thanks!

The best channel there is for learning the piano

Thank you very much!!

Very useful and helpful, thanks a lot!

Really great lesson. Very clear explanation. Thank you so much.

Great lesson. Learning Intervals definitely accelerated my progress

Scales and intervals rock! I remember learning a Mozart piece on my flute and I had a light bulb moment when was playing a D Major arpeggio, thinking - so that's why scales are important, they really help with playing pieces and especially fast scale/arpeggio runs in them! I think if somebody is good at discovering patterns or seeing them, then that helps - I am rubbish at spotting patterns, unless I really study something! This video has been helpful - thanks for posting it!

Thanks, this was so helpful!

This video is the single most helpful one i have seen about reading sheet music! You, sir, a great teacher and just gained a new subscriber.

great never thought of reading music this way

Thank you!

😁 Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge of music theory

your lessons are awesome

Thank you very much your explanation is very clear easy to capitulate. So keep it up may God bless you.

you made it vary simple ....thats woaahhh...thanks a ton

Thanks, super helpful!

More on applying these techniques please, similar to what you started at 12:50. Thanks for the great tips!

excellent explanations

That made learning to read music not seem as intimidating. Good lesson. Added to watch later to keep referencing

thanks, pretty useful stuff

This is actually really useful. Thanks!

Thank you very much super helpful !!♡

thank you thank you thank yoooooou, this is really helpful !

Thank you 👍

I just came to say thanks for sharing your knowledge on such a widely accessible platform!!

Good stuff, man. Thank you!

Great lesson, Tim!

Oh my god, this trick is actually hecking useful! Thank you!

This is awesome, thank you

Excellent! Thanks Tim.

I took lessons 20+ years ago and at one point could play Debussy, but always sucked at sight reading as I barely paid attention to intervals. I basically rote memorized everything from watching or recordings and spot checked my memory with awkward sight reading, because I never really bothered with theory very much. I'm trying to get back into it now after not playing for a decade, and I expect just the first few minutes of this video have already made me dramatically better at sight reading! Thanks so much =)

Thank you so much this helped me a lot because I was a little bit worried about sightreading but now I know how to read faster.

im a one year learner. this is excellent! Thank you.

I'm so happy that i found this channel

Mind = Blown I have always read sheet music as intervals but no one ever explained it as that. Teachers were always getting mad at me because I couldn't tell them the letter... now I am grasping both concepts

Great teacher!

Omg . This is helpful

😁 Tim; after watching this cool video; I gotta say, you did good!!!

Good Job = THANX This will speed up my reading immensely

Amazing tutorial thanks a lot

Hey thanks! I am a piano beginner and can barely read the notes on sheets in time to play (provided that I guess the right note too). Your method will surely help me to become a better sight reader.

Thanx sir it s verry good for me....

thank you my friend