Get the latest Flash player.
Summary: Learn from our expert how to play a total piece, from start to finish, in B flat in this free music video on reading classical music in the key of B flat (Bb).
Views: 454 | Tags: classical, piano, play, key, reading, notes, staff, Bb, musiclessons, classical music
About the Expert
Ryan Larson Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all twelve keys. When applying his twelve-key technique... read more
So we just sight read through the whole piece. So you're ready to go out and get a nice Bach book. Start sight reading on your own. We're going to have some more sight reading adventures too online. So you guys can get used to doing it. The more you do it the better you get at it. So don't get discouraged at first. Just take your time and do it nice and slow and you'll get very proficient. And if you want to stay with the online thing, you can always download what we call MIDI files, M I D I. And you can get Bach MIDI files. All these different MIDI files. And download them and listen to them and then run them through if you have either Finale or Sibelius, you can upload them through those programs and it will give you the actual notes like I'm looking at right now. So that way you can listen and play through your favorite tunes as you go through and sight read through some nice classical music in the key of B flat major.