This is an amazing tutorial. I’ve recently started learning piano and have been struggling with ledger lines. But after watching this tutorial it has clicked! Thank you so much!
I'm 54 years old learning piano for the first time. No one on RU-vid has taught this. I'm really trying but I cannot afford a mentor at this time so your video was really helpful. I just taught myself to read the bass clef but those lower and higher notes would always halt my playing. Thank you.
Really happy to hear that my idea helped. Keep at it and remember all you have to do is make a LITTLE progress at a time. There's always ONE LITTLE THING that's holding you back from making progress. Have patience and know that when you add up all of those little bits of progress things will get easier and more fun! Keep up the good work JoAnn and thanks for the kind comment. 👏👍
Thank you, for that explanation. I passed three exams years ago without leger lines having been explained to me at all. I can now play pieces I couldn't get right before.
Thank you for demystifying the reading of ledger line notes. If a piano performer never heard of this approach, I certainly would never have. Thank you so much!!
Ha, thanks - glad it was helpful and easy to implement. Because we don’t run into ledger lines often enough in most beginner music, I may add a lesson in the Piano Basics course I’m creating now. Perhaps I can use this video and include a quiz for naming the ledger line notes using this method 😀👍
Yes! Great idea. Maybe it’s already been stated elsewhere in the comments, but it occurs to me that we can also extend the ACE method by using traditional acronyms for the bass clef spaces (All Cows Eat Grass, etc.) Bravo!
Thanks so much for taking the time to pass on this information, much appreciated. I'm a singer so I'm very lazy when it comes to reading the bass staff or notes well above the treble clef when I'm trying to play a chord accompaniment or reading choral music
I’ve played off and on for 50 years too and can’t believe my recent rapid development! I’ll explain online soon. Working as fast as I can to finish the current round of videos! Glad this one helped👍.
SAME! just gotta memorize the base staff in order to know the ledger lines above n below the treble (while in school i only remembered the treble cleff notes
I really appreciate your amazing discovery and summary. I think you could be a man who made 'piano' originally from a long time before. I am 55 years old woman living in south korea. But from a month ago I started how to play the piano. I thought about piano itself, who made and what are the principles kind of mechanical things. Once I stayed up all night thinking those things. Suddenely I found there were just only " c d e " keybords and it is repeat. And between of repeatable keybords there are "f and f #"keys for distinguish with other same keys. It makes other octaves. It is my non-sensable theory but watching your video it could be a make-sense. These days I really happy to be able to read some music sheets and paly the piano more efficiently. I am lucky to meet you on the internet. Thank you very much~~~^^
It’s great that you are starting to learn how to play piano. It will bring frustration to push forward at first, but the greatest joy possible as you progress. I am glad to have helped in your journey and wish you continued success! Happy Practicing!
I'm a bass-player, low-level. The elegant way you presented this, permanently destroyed my recalcitrance to move beyond tab. You made it easier and actually enjoyable to learn how to properly read musical notation. The two methods you provide here are not-unlike a metaphorical fulcrum,; once established and grappled with, the mental energy expended is cut-in-half, making it _so_ much easier to lift all this up into proper understanding. What I don't understand is why this video has so few views.
You my friend are an incredible writer! What an elegant comment. I’m sure your low-level bass playing will be on it’s way to high-level with continued focused effort. Happy Practicing and thanks so much for the over-the-top comment!
Yes I’m actually a very slow sight reader but am doing at least 15 minutes every day and slowly increasing speed and accuracy. Glad to help as this method really works but you still have to utilize it consistently to speed things up👍
I have a LLine course on my website. I am currently repeating the quizzes daily and will continue that for 30 days so that I can become a ledger line reading superstar🤣👍 Thanks!
Thanks Kyle hope to soon have a course on my site that will train people to use this method enough for it to be lightning fast and become second nature 😁👍
Thank you so much. I really struggled on ledger lines. And if i become a teacher i will also use this method to teach because it really gives a better understanding of sheet music
I just started playing the piano three weeks ago and happened to find this video. It's the only explanation out there that I can understand. Great job. Do you have any other videos? I can't find any on RU-vid.
Hey JazzBuff23, thanks for the nice comment. If you click on my image it should take you to my RU-vid channel which has I think over 600 videos. Check out the Playlists as you don't need to listen to the improvs :) My pianodragon.com website has some info... I'm refocusing for 2020 as I need to balance my own practice/improvement with online teaching stuff. Stay tuned. Happy Learning and Happy New Year.
Bir teşekkürü kabul ederim ama 1000 teşekkür çok fazla :) Bu fikirler defter satırlarını okumayı kolaylaştıracağı için çok mutluyum. Hepsi orijinal değil ama belki personel görselleştirme olanlar orijinaldir. Nazik sözleriniz için teşekkür ederim. I'll accept a thank you but 1000 thank yous is too much :) I am very happy that these ideas will make reading ledger lines easier. They are not all original, but maybe the staff visualization ones are. Thank you for your kind words.
Great awesome thanks sir such a wonderful trick ..100% work for read music sheet very easier other people made it very complicated like its very difficult to read ...but after watching this video I think it's pretty easy to read music sheet.🙏
I had never had this explained like this before and it was truly a godsend that I stumbled on to your video thank you so much you helped me out so much!!!!
Thanks a lot sir..this video literally seemed to be a god gift to me..u are a great teacher...lots of love and respect to u from India..❤..& sir one request, pls make a video on how to read sheet music easily with the use of intervals...
You are most welcome..... unfortunately I don't think anyone can make a video on how to read sheet music easily with the use of intervals. It will always be a lot of consistent focused work that you love for the sake of learning new music😀
Nicely done! The problem I have is instant recognition of a note. i.e. not having to get my brain to trawl through a mnemonic to get my finger to hit the right key.😩
Nice explanation. One thing that you could do to make it easier to read ledger lines is that since ledger lines above treble and below bass spell ace. You could also think that way with reading them above bass clef and below treble. You see, the first three ledger lines above bass clef spell out ceg (which you can also refer to as 1, 3, and 5 aka a basic chord. For reading ledger lines below treble spell out caf. Reading notes after those lines is just common sense
thank you so much for this video, its very useful, i am going to this, i study alone and its a little bit hard to me understand some things. God bless you.
This was GREAT! It made complete sense and really helped me with my bass clef memorization. How often are the ledger line notes used rather than the 8va symbol?
Hi Martha, Yes, visualizing the staff above, or the staff below is tough. As with anything, the more you do it the easier it becomes. If you do it enough it will become second nature. If you are like me, I hate to develop new habits at first. Then, when it becomes easy and automatic, I am proud of my new learned skills! I'm learning to be more patient and consistent as it seems to be making a world of difference :-)
Not too keen on Hanon (and yes, I have spent hours and hours doing the virtuoso exercises) and scales in the past. Check out the Piano Dragon Way (pianodragon.com) learning method that utilizes the subconscious (unconscious mind) when you get a minute. Best of luck with everything and happy learning!
At the end of the day, you need to be able to instantaneously ID the note, no hints so this is a good initial learning tool. Realistically, I really think you should "cold turkey" it and that means flash cards. So there's only 88 notes. That's it, 88! In Europe especially, there tons of people who speak multiple languages, each language having tens of thousands of words. If you think of that comparison, 88 is pretty much nothing! But the bottom line is, everyone who can read knows you don't have time as your eye scans the page for all those little "tricks" you just have to memorize the note and visually where it is on the keyboard! Same deal if you play an orchestral instrument reading only one staff, INSTANEOUSLY know what finger to move where. Das it!
