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How to Read Sheet Music

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Learn how to read sheet music notes and scores for piano and other musical instruments in these free music instruction videos.

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Summary: Music creates a connection between people that is not limited by time, distance, or relationship. A song can speak to anyone, anywhere. That’s why music continually changes and grows, is still loved and still proliferates. Music is a living language.

Sheet music is an important tool for preserving accurately the musical information laid down by an artist 5, 50, or 500 years ago. This system of communication, this language, allows musicians to recreate, and thus re-experience, a musical message sent by an artist or composer generations before. There is such an amazing wealth of orchestral sheet music to draw from that it is a respected tradition for students to begin their studies there. In learning from Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart, a player learns the fundamentals of the instrument as well.

In these free music instruction videos, learn how to read sheet music scores for piano and other musical instruments. Our expert will give you tips on how interpret clefs, time signatures, key signatures, tempo and mood markings, accidentals, rests, repeats and more. Also learn techniques for staying in rhythm, playing the right notes at the right time, and marking your score.

About the Expert

Expert: Katie Liesener has played French horn for 15 years, performing primarily in the central Illinois area. She has played with Opera Illinois, the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra, and the Danville Symphony Orchestra. She has also played in numerous pit orchestras, for shows varying from The Wiz to Cabaret. Liesener has additional experience playing with brass and woodwind quintets and other chamber ensembles.

In 1999, she won a solo competition with the Prairie Wind Ensemble of Peoria, Illinois, in an open field of several different instrumentalists. She has performed as a soloist both in recitals and for church services. Liesener has taught horn lessons to students from middle school to high school, and led master classes for high school students.

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