Been reading music for over 30 years and never heard of the Landmark System. Nice tutorial. You teach very similar to how I teach theory. Nice work. :)
New to reading base line and had been confused. Brilliant tutorial, well laced for a newbie and having a visual at the same time really helped. I'm going to re-watch this a lot and make notes. Sorry, pun not intended. Thanks for making and sharing this.
what is complicated is not to associate a name with a note but to associate the sound corresponding to this note (the frequency) as well as to associate the interval which exists between a note and another note. It is complicated to sing ascending or descending intervals of thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, sevenths ❤❤❤
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Thank you for demystifying musical notation! I learned some of this when I was a kid; but since then notation has eluded me. I will listen to this again a few more times!
My takeaway is to learn just a few “absolute” notes and deduct “relative” notes from those landmark notes while learning to read music, with the end goal to eventually be familiar with all notes “absolutely”. Makes sense, I do this on guitar. No way I’ll memorize 144 fret positions on guitar, but the 25% I do have in muscle memory generally gets me the rest of the way there
Every Good Burrito Delivers Flavor. All Good Burgers Dont Fall Apart. Is good to know nemonics but you are correct it is much better to know landmark system. The reason is you will keep thinking of the nemomics every time you look at the stave. Knowing where the landmarks are will help your mind recognize faster what the non landmark notes are. This makes you site reading better.😊
Thank you for the step by step video! I am starting (late) to learn how to read music and this is the best video explaining how this works. Not hard at all!
These are the best hand-drawn straight lines I have seen in a while!! I am in awe, and envious at the same time. Also, thank you for the great explanation!
I haven't read music in decades. I'm now learning the Bach Prelude BWV 998 for guitar. I'm reading the notes out loud and imaging where they are on the guitar tuned in DADGAD.
Good video. But for your students... The G (Treble) Clef is not so much that it is on the 2nd line, but actually it shows WHICH line (or space) is the G above Middle C (it is usually on the 2nd line of the upper Stave, but not always). The G Clef can actually appear anywhere, even on the lower stave of the Grand Stave. The G clef is just a "stylized" 'G'. Similarly, the F (Bass) Clef shows where F below Middle C is located. It is a stylized F but instead of a crossed line that is in such a F, two dots are used because a line would be hard to tell which stave line or space it is centered upon. The F Clef can appear anywhere, even on the upper Stave, but it is usually on the 3rd line on the lower Stave. There is also a C Clef, which is used sometimes with horns.
Anyway ! all these folks want to correct you about little things I just want to say great job ! You explained it well , it’s so hard to find someone that will explain it simply & you did just that ! Thank you bunches lol
Absolutely no one ever uses a treble or bass clef in any position other than standard. I guess it technically could happen but in 30 years, I’ve never seen it. The only traditionally moveable clef is the C Clef which is mostly commonly used as an Alto clef or Tenor clef… but C Clef is very rare for most instruments. I wouldn’t worry about ever learning or practicing G or F clef outside of the normal position.
@@DOGroove Go back to the masters like Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven and such, they often moved the G and F clefs around. This is because in piano music, the notes on the lower stave are usually played with the left hand and the notes on upper stave are played with the right hand. So, when the left hand is played in higher registers, the F Clef is moved to the upper stave. Then there is the Octave Clef - a G Clef with an 8 hanging off the tail. This denotes that the indicated G is one octave below middle C. There is is also a G Clef with an 8 at the top of the G Clef, which indicates the G is above Middle C - this way the right hand can play in an upper/lower register without a lot of ledger lines for the notes. Today 8va, 15va, 8vb, and 15vb are used but the Clefs still define where the Gs and Fs are located as a formality. Don't ask me why 15va and 15vb are used for 2 Octaves, one would think that it would be 16, but music is always developing (especially since the Renaissance). The masters defined a lot of what we use today in music notation. Every musician should have a dictionary of music. Harper's Dictionary of Music is out of print, I would recommend something more current since music has evolved a lot since Jazz hit the scene. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_symbols
@@DOGroove Also, if one limits onself to play music that is less than 30 years old, then one is missing out on tons of music. Not knowing all the notation could be embarrassing. I happened to be at Electric Lady studio when the musical genius "Prince" was there. After I shook his hand, he gave me a glimpse of some of his hand written music... there was Octave G Clef on one score. Now, the published music may have use 8vb, but it is easier just to put an 8 on the tail of the G Clef if the whole stave is an octave lower.
@@paulromsky9527 I didn’t mean music only created in the last 30 years, I meant in my 30 years as a musician. I have often seen octave clefs but I have never once encountered a piece of music that has had an F clef not in the standard position. And this is me reading upright bass, cello, trombone, and Tuba music. I have seen Tenor clefs used in cello music but I’ve never seen a piece written with a non-standard F clef.
In the treble clef the middle line and top curve meet at D, the second line down from he top. You jave it meeting at B, the midle line. But they cross on D. And the bass clef stops at the B, second line from the bottom.
treble, base, middle clef and other such as saxophone's sheet, the same note are in different position, cause lots of confusion. A better way is to upgrade the 5 line system to 6 line system(draw a line on top of treble clef and bottom of base clef, then at least in the base and treble clef, same note in same position.
i learned bass clef / played trombone for 8 years as a kid. now as an adult learning advanced topics, need to read both clefs at the same time. Learning treble clef is new. you know what is funny >> I can tell when my brain is tired caz my brain starts to transpose from bass clef when trying to read treble.
Or play daily for 5+ years and you stop reading altogether, the note position and keyboard position are 1. Flats and sharps mostly are associated with the left right starting with the 3 black keys pattern, that is automatic. I can go up or down for special cases and repeated for something like a minor key I remember that after a few times. The rare 4 or 5 lines added above or below, there is a lot of guessing and mistakes initially.
Back in the 80’s, there was a Guitar Player magazine article featuring Steve Vai. He said that you need to learn the notes on the guitar’ fretboard ‘cold’; no gimmicks . Same should apply here, don’t you think?
@@insamyoja2I have no idea how you came to that conclusion, it’s the same middle C, it’s the ONLY middle C, a ledger line below the treble and above the bass clefs.
I was also taught that people do not in itself have to ‘read’ music/note names, as long as they have been given ‘Doh’ they apparently can work out any note purely from the ‘Tonic-Solfa’ system. I once had two Basses in one of my Church Choirs and all they read was tonic-solfa, and once they new which note was doh by me giving a starting chord they could pretty well get a brand new anthem learnt within a couple of weeks, whereas the ‘note readers were taking 4 times as long, the only time I remember them going astray was if there was a key change part way through the anthem.
Solfege is taught in every accredited school in the USA. Why it is not taught in elementary school. I don't know. I have shown the iconic scene from The Sound of Music to very young students to begin ear training. It absolutely establishes the sound of a major scale effortlessly.
The letter name system is actually as old as solfege. Originally the two were used for slightly different purposes - note names were absolute, solfege was somewhat movable (but not entirely). For whatever reason, in some countries, do re mi replaced letters entirely, and in other countries, people essentially stopped using the solfege syllables, and only used letters. BTW, in countries that use the letter names, solfege still has its uses, but in that system, the syllables refer to scale degrees, not to absolute pitches (do is the 1st degree, re is the 2nd degree, mi is the 3rd degree). So, if you have a melody that goes "do re mi", it could be C D E if you are in C major, but it could also be E F# G# if you are in E major. Another option is to simply use scale degree numbers.
For the absolute beginner, Why don’t we start with how many notes we have and their names and how they sound. For people in other countries what are the equivalencies to do te mi fa sol?
Surely if you learn the letter names of the 2 clefs (in this case) and teach your students that there is only 7 letters in a musical alphabet, all you’ve got to do is count up/down to work out any note in music.
This is the point of the exercise. If you are sight singing or playing an instrument, counting is very slow on top of all of the other stuff like accidentals, time and key signatures. You need to be able to look at the staff and straight away know what note you’re playing, not have to count.
I don't like it. Memorizing ACE landmarks (from 1st to the 6th octaves) on the grand staff is faster and easier. You can identify notes even on ledger lines in no time. Plus, you will know where to play them on the piano.
This is a good way to learn the names of the notes but it has nothing to do with actual playing. You don’t play by thinking “oh that’s a G” and then playing it. You match up the lines and spaces directly with the black and white pattern WITHOUT worrying about the note names.
One doubt: Are you trying to say Landmark System is a 'helper' along with FACEEGBDF System to recognize notes faster OR as an 'alternative' to FACEEGBDF System to recognize notes in same almost same speed once mastered/familiarised?
See it simpler: there is a single middle line between the two scores, on which the middle C is. Then other Cs are symmetrical around this line, and the F at the bottom is the symmetry of the G at the top. If your eye is trained to recognize C and G at the top, just imagine the score flipped upside down and you'll figure C and F at the bottom. If you do some piano, imagine a vertical piano keyboard on which you would type oriented to the left. The left-hand keys are at the bottom and the right-hand keys at the top. The middle C key is at the center, aligned with the middle C line. The right-hand keys then follow the G-clef and the left-hand keys follow the F-clef. Hoping this helps!
because how how they thought the staff in school it took me several years to realize the staff was just the alphabet ... so instead of seeing FACE and egbdf i see e F g A b C d E f then it just wraps around in bothe directions ...
