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I play this video at 2x speed so I can read sheet music not 10, but 20 TIMES FASTER!!!!!!!

I asked my teacher how to read music more quickly and she did talk about intervals but didn't really explain it fully. Watching this video t immediately clicked, especially the part about how to identify even or odd numbered intervals. This has been so valuable to me! Thank you!!

me at 0:53 wow what program is this? me at 0:57 oh thanks

I’ve used numerous piano channels for learning piano. Your site surpasses them all for learning!! Thanks!

I find it funny people who play by ear to learn songs wish they could read music and people who can read music wish they could play by ear. For the most part at least.

Awesome video. I was alway confused about intervals, 3rds 5ths. I've been reading the hard way for years. Thank you so much.

So clear, really helps.

Hey Tim, Thank you so much for the excellent teaching videos! WOW! Great tips and very useful information. Look forward to viewing many more of your videos!

You are really helpful. I'm in a piano class at Uga, you are explaining all this so well.

Excellent no nonsense demonstration on intervals

This is helpful to me as a new adult beginner (year two) piano student. Thanks so much for the great tips and interval concepts!

I've been taking piano lessons for years but I've found your teaching is much better, you're great teacher 👍😊

That was great, Thank you !

Cannot believe how simple you've made this. Thanks man

Thx, valuable video! Main take home as I see it, is to start at the bottom and read upwards. Though, once I get into sharps and flats, my brain is likely going to have mini strokes...:)

Great tips! By the way you are a natural teacher! Thanks

Great video! you got that box thing in the top left corner turned on and going. pretty cool!

Thank you, very useful for learning!

Wow, I can't believe it. This is going to help me a lot. Thanks for that tip

Actually helped! Thank you!

This is awesome 👏 I bought a piano not long ago but I haven’t practice too much because of school. Now that school is over I’m going practice as much I can during summer.

Thank you very very good best tip for reading notes quickly!!!! you are really the best one

Fantastic! Thanks!

Thanks, what a hack 😀

Fabulous, thank you!

Thanks. That’s useful.

Wow! Real heavyweight penny-drop moments here. Not just one, but numerous. I've seen this stuff spoken about by others, but not 'like THIS'. This also goes for other videos on your channel. Thank you!

Odd is even, even is odd! Really simple!

Thanks a lot for the LESSON RESOURCE This is exactly what I needed !! 😜

Love it!!!!!

Great tips.

Good stuff....thanks!

That was very cool!

Thanks! :)

Thanks Tim

here is a quick tip: When playing a chord put your fingers on the bottom and top of the cord and use your other fingers for reest of the chords.

Great tip

You ate with this video

This is good!

Very useful

This vid help me so damn much

Really like the square piece on the shelf behind that looks like a mini keyboard with fluorescent blue flashing. What exactly is it used for? Is it a tuner, a radio, a clock?

I watched your Jan 13 podcast for the first time. Awesome.

Thanks; I'm just starting to relearn how to play; I can't read music; so this is really helpful.

I'm looking for an app or website that let's you practice intervals using a midi keyboard, only thing I found is identifying them by name but I want to be able to play them on the piano instead.

Tim, I am new to this and I may be barking up the wrong tree because I am seeing old posts. Let's see if I can make a long story short: I used to be fairly 'accomplished' despite the fact that I never practiced and only pursued piano (plus flute, a bit of guitar, etc.) to please my parents (originally) from kindergarten until about 18 yrs old. Ultimately, I could pull off a decent Rachmaninoff, various significant Beethoven pieces, etc. My piano teacher finally gave up on me, and instead of springing recital pieces within weeks where I was supposed to memorize same (full church where nobody allowed to leave) I was the unfortunate exception to the rule, whereby he allowed me to bring the sheet music because I never practiced. It would take me 6 months to prepare for let's say, the 'Bells of Moscow' or Pathetique, and only my sense of self-preservation (ego) made me prepare more as the D-day approved each June. I am now 57 (stopped playing music when I was 18), but bought this bad ass Yamaha CP88 recently for an apartment (while real house being renovated and my vintage upright in storage - not like I played it over last decades anyway); and I realized I can barely do Moonlight Sonata!! WTF happened to me? Now, I am a wannabe reformed loser (yes top of my class academically and same in grad school, yet party girl too back then, living with a foot in each realm)! I have never been so humbled in my life when trying to play recently. I wasn't good, but I wasn't bad either. Now, I have to figure out bass clef notes that feel so foreign (I speak multiple languages - but these notes blow my mind!!). Do you have a way for old dogs like me to resume in an optimal way? I run 2 businesses and unfortunately became the sole caregiver to a beloved spouse of 35 years - (he suffered an accident 5 years ago). For some reason, this is what I **really** want to do (I thank my parents every day for the blessing of music study). But my impatience shows me i have to start all over in a methodical way. Sorry for the tome here, but I suspect there are other peeps like me who could benefit from such therapy after pretty severe trauma - or let's say people who are dealing with hard-core adversity, whose neuropathways are digging deeper negative holes. That is, they (we) need to break out of a persistent fight or flight syndrome. I truly believe musical therapy (not just rocking out as I do routinely, be it Doc Watson or Audioslave) could be one approach. As you can tell, I feel strongly compelled to dip my toe back in the water, but wonder if it is a matter of just starting all over again - which would not give me much gratification. You don’t even have to respond - I just found your tips interesting because i never learned any tricks or certain ways of thinking about it. Blah, blah, blah. I am about to delete this - and if I dont send now I will wuss out- because I am quite sure the answer is not easy. Keep doing your cool thing dude. Thanks! :) Lynn

nice

LAst year of music college and I was never thought this

Thanks👍🇳🇿

Dude what app u use 2 rec this vid

Identifying them by sight is what I was having trouble with. I am trying to read sheet music for the first time today, and I ran into the problem that each key isn't assigned to just one finger like it is on the keyboard, so clearly, labeling the spaces ABCDEFG doesn't help at all when actually trying to play. I could memorize which fingers to use for which letter for one song, but then it doesn't work for the next song. Then I thought I'll just remember where my thumb is for each song and go from there based on the spacing, then I realized that I have to count the spacing. I can't just see how far apart they are just by looking. So I'm going to try memorizing what the different spacings are like you suggest.

what about interval quality, this just applies to quantity. I haven't actually tried this so it may be a moot point, but it seems like that would be an issue

Greetings from Czech republic. I like the way you teach. What software dou you use for making such a great lessons like this?

what is the meaning of the 4 on top of 4 sign on the staff

when you click the link to the interval practice there's a way he named the cords and I do not understand could someone pls explain

What notation software is he using?

This works well for the key of c but gets less useful in other keys. The issue I s m to have is recognizing intervals when there are many sharps and flats. Do you have a video to help with this?

Hello can you do how to read lead sheets. ??

Great tips. If you play guitar like me, it’s helpful too. Not just for piano players

1:47 intervalos Seconds: side by side Third: beginning of a snowman Fourth: a little space in between Fifth: line or space in between

I am a mature student who wants to play the piano. What digital keyboard would you recommend ?

I can't access the exercise. Can you help?

it's all fun and games until the sharps and flats show up

I appreciate your referral to the interval exercise but can you explain how it works? What are m’s and p’s. Thank you

Where the mentioned link for practice?

Thanks for for he tutorial, I can see you put some and effort into it. Unfortunately, it won't work for most learners since are.you are just áskng them to follow the same cofusing, abstract points on page. My suggestion is to break the mold, and teach a more practical, and simplified technique, by using CHORD SHAPES the way the guitar does. Basically teach the CAGED system of playing the same pattern of chords anywhere on the keyboard. Teach the D in open position, then move it up and down the board, showing how the same finger shape can be reused for different triads. In the beginning stay away from variations (D over GM7). The basics would be a emphasizing the recurring shapes, and use them as musical notation, versus the confusing system we have know. O

Oh it’s staffpad I’ll download that

Infinite regression @7.07!

What kind of notation software is this?

2:20 octave

I get the spacing but its notes above and below the stave i cant read automatically

Thank you Charlie puth for this wonderful tutorial

oof that desktop

Octive

Hello.

Octave

The computer icons give me anxiety 😂

An very informative video. This would be a great jumping off point to talk about Figured Bass. I had no idea what it was but it's just a way to notate chords from the bass clef, a very Baroque practice. But hey, Bach really Roques. A root position chord is 5/3, but if there is no notation it's just listed as the chord. This meands there is a fifth and a third, since Tim has taught us all about intervals. A first inversion is noted 6/3, since they liked to note the larger interval on top. This means that the root is a sixth above the note, which is the third in the bass. Since they liked shorthand and didn't want to list everything, this would just have a prefix 6. A second inversion chord is listed 6/4, since the lowest note is the fifth, the root is found a fourth above (up a fifth, down a fourth) and the third is a sixth above. Since they wanted no confusion, they always list this as a 6/4. There are also notations for seventh chords, with the root position being simply a 7. I'm not going to give the other 3 inversions since I want to master my triads before moving on. Tim, your channel reaches a large audience and this would be a good topic for a future video. I'm practicing Bach chorals with two voices. They're difficult, but beautiful.

I do not understand what you are explaining giving them names for different positions. I can read it but too slowly

Does anyone think he looks very similar to charlie puth, but the execution is his hair 😂

on god i hate my band teacher, ive explained to him many times that i dont know how to play the mallets and rather than listen and try to help me hes like, "youll learn while playing" like HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IF I DONT KNOW HOW TO READ THE SHEETS

2:20 "what is the other name of an eighth?" Me: "a 3.5?" 🤔

An eighth is me trying to make it til pay day

Man noone has problems with these, it's when you have like 5 lines above or under the note system.

Ten times faster but it will take a few years.

You kinda look like charlie puth. Can u give some piano sheets that can be good for begginners?

already knew this information, zero out of ten, good effort.

POV: your reading the comments to see if it works

Read sheet music faster, teaches with piano jargons which beginners don't understand. Viewers are confused and leaves. 👌

You look 50 and 12 at the same time

U look like charlie puths older brother he never had

As a professional musician and educator for over 30 years. I realized years back the traditional notation system is so flawed. It takes years to be a master sight reader. I researched many other music notation systems some were others were bad. So I reinvented the traditional way where note identification is so simple it makes the "every good boy does fine" system reveals this good boy is really punk laughing at your ass because you can't figure what line or space the stupid note is on. More to come. Lol

looks like ur pc is suffering

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Please clean up your desktop.

Would have been a better video if you had already prepared the different note patterns so you didnt have to waste everyone's time writing them out with this strange program

Yes but when there are flats or sharps in there it throws it all off for me.

This is really good. Thank you.

Octave