The 4 Stages of Learning to Read Sheet Music!

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In this video I go through the four stages of learning to read sheet music. Many musicians believe that reading sheet music is just about reading notes on a page very quickly, when there is actually much more involved! In this video I go through all of the stages!
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@FrailSerenity Месяц назад

Why am I paying a piano teacher weekly, when I can come here and learn more information in less time and have it actually make sense?? Thank you thank you thank you, Matthew, for all of the time and effort you put into your content. If it's saving me from giving up on an instrument I've wanted to play for decades (shhhhh, we don't need to linger on the plural of decade), I'm sure it's saving others as well. This really is such an underrated channel, and I can't wait for others to find it and get just as inspired.

@jasondeddens 15 дней назад

Hi I'd like to give you a tip. I only started a little under 4 months ago but I already compose my own music. I really practiced all the scales with correct fingerings and all the chords plus inversions first and I am currently getting into sightreading. Being able to play without sheet music first just by understanding the relation to the notes, intervals and chords helps me tremendously and learning sheet music almost feels to easy to me right now. Understand your circle of fifths and happy jamming :D

@akshatsoni6045 Месяц назад

Perfect video out there for me. I just started playing piano but was strugling a lot on understanding the scales and how chords help but you made it very clear. Thank you

@deepuniverse4840 Месяц назад

Same ! This video is like perfect timing for me cuz my whole piano journey was without sheet music and now Im planning to finally learn it

@akshatsoni6045 Месяц назад

@@deepuniverse4840 there are still some things that I do not understand very clearly. If u can help me. So first I thought we play chords on left hand and melody on right hand. Then in this video Matt talks about chords in right hand. Now I am confused about chords,melodies and bass notes. Like which hand is used for it and all.

@katttttt Месяц назад

Chords are often played with the left hand as an accompany for the right hand. But not always obviously, you can just play chords as good as with your right hand

@matticawood Месяц назад

Chords are actually a combination of the notes between both hands…sometimes in pieces there are more of those notes in the left hand and sometimes there are more of them in the right hand. If you have a G major chord (G B D), you may have a G and a D in the left hand and a G and a B in the right hand…across both hands you are playing a G major chord 😊 In the previous video on chord patterns I suggested playing chords in the right hand with the melody and the bass note in the left hand. This is to make the notes sound less muddy…but the chord is still a combination of the bass notes and the notes you play in the right hand from the chord and is a great pattern to learn so that all of your own versions of songs don’t sound muddy if all the notes are too low. Sometimes composers will want the left hand to sound a little more full and therefore place more chord notes in the left hand 😊

@deepuniverse4840 Месяц назад

@@matticawood Bro ur so underrated , ur pulling off some of the best piano content both for education and entertainment ... Thanks for what u do man , keep being as amazing as you are

@repetitivescrag3439 Месяц назад

I’m getting good at reading sheet music now. I’m starting to play pieces without looking at my hands and I’ve only been playing for a year and a half. I really enjoy reading sheet music

@leNnard_ Месяц назад

Your channel is exactly what I needed. Ive always loved the piano, but other than playing off muscle memory I never really quite understood what music ACTUALLY is. I knew there is some underlying "language" that one has to learn, which then connects all the dots, and I believe you are teaching exactly that. Breaking down these abstract topics into different stages really exposes the fundamental concepts. This video, and the one about chords truly have changed how I approach my learning. It also motivates me to study music theory and learn how to play the piano properly, not just following tutorials. I really appreciate all your content. Perhaps you could also make a video about transcribing music in the future? Ive seen a clip of frank tedesco recommending that transcribing music really helps to think about what you are playing. It is quite am ambitious task to start while still learning the basics, but I would appreciate your thoughts on it, and maybe how to go about learning to transcribe music as a tool for piano learning.

@rodrigosoares3161 Месяц назад

Another video to save and revisit from time to time!

@useless822 Месяц назад

I like the new background

@matticawood Месяц назад

Thanks, I’m currently away from my natural habitat..so I’m glad it looks good 😊

@dianecrystal8360 14 дней назад

thank you! this video greatly helped me among other yt videos. thanks a lot!

@Line_world_1 Месяц назад

Loved this video❤

@user-zs5cx7ip8f Месяц назад

Thank you❤‍🔥

@josiahsealy2129 Месяц назад

So true

@firefern21 Месяц назад

This is perfect for where I am in learning piano, keep it up!:)

@Oakeybloke Месяц назад

Nice video 🙂 I've just started reading grade 2 level, and use a mixture of landmark notes with stepping or skipping up and down. Will get to reading whole words soon...I hope!

@Gamerboy-hk7mr Месяц назад

Thank you I just started reading cheat music this video will definitely help

@matticawood Месяц назад

“Cheat” music 👀

@FrailSerenity Месяц назад

"Cheat" music = lead sheets 😂

@user-fg2ii1lk6i Месяц назад

Great video❤

@matticawood Месяц назад

Thanks 🙃

@dees3179 Месяц назад

Sometimes I think think I need to bookmark one of your videos because it’s useful. Then I realise I just need to bookmark you! This is getting ridiculous…..you explain so clearly. I’ve been a musician of indifferent ability on various instruments for over forty years and I’ve seen a lot. You are genuinely one of the best educators and communicators I’ve seen. Well done. The thing I’m struggling with going from single line instruments to piano……how do I know which notes go on which hands? Thinking of pieces such as Satie Gymnopodie. I couldn’t figure it out from the sheet music and had to resort to RU-vid tutorials to discover that the left hand is all up in the right hand business. Not to mention I have an urtext edition so my chords are split over the staves, and when I started trying to look it up most other versions put the chords entirely in the treble clef….. so confusing. I’m sure it must be good for me though. And then there are other pieces where the left jumps over the top to squirt in a cheeky extra high note…..how do I know to do that? And peddling instructions……It’s these piano specific things that are tripping me up now. Very disconcerting to have new information from something I thought I understood. Any chance of some suggestions, or a collab video with a single line playing friend where you can look at some differences? It would be really helpful to me if you could.

@brianevans4 16 дней назад

Great video thanks. I’d love to be better at sight reading and playing with meaning, rather than just correct notes.

@Parmetheus Месяц назад

Man, I need to practice more

@123SLM123 Месяц назад

Hi Matthew, how do I stop myself from cheating when sight reading? I'm an absolute beginner when it comes to sight reading. I am currently able to identify individual notes, although sometimes I do need a few seconds, but my problem is that when learning a piece by sight reading. After playing through it a couple of times I automatically memorise the notes and no longer actively read the sheet music. This is slowing down my progress. The only tip my teacher gives me is to ''just not do it,'' but it happens automatically. I don't know how to not do this. How do I fix this? Also, whenever I look at my hands to place them on the correct keys, when looking back up, I cannot find where I am in the music, how do I fix this?

@matticawood Месяц назад

Hey! Only read a piece of music intended for sight reading once! Once you read a piece of music for the second time you are no longer sight reading it…you are memorising it and trying to correct the mistakes you made the first time. This is completely fine if you want to perfect that piece of music. - but this is learning the piece of music, not sight reading it. However, if your intention is to get good at sight reading, you need to read separate pieces of music only once and then move on. This will make sure that you have no option but to read the music 😊 over time, if you practice sight reading…your hands will get better at judging where they are going and you won’t feel the need to look down so much. When I was learning to sight read, I had a stack of random music and each day I would play through one before going on to pieces that I was learning 😊

@123SLM123 Месяц назад

@@matticawood Thanks for this quick and thorough response. I am certainly going to try and fit this into my daily routine. I'll send you my one year progress video next year!

@Oakeybloke Месяц назад

I have some ABRSM books with short pieces to sight read, in preparation for my exam next month. 30 seconds of analysing each piece before playing through, and I'm getting better at it 🙂 I thought the same, with trying to read pieces as I played & learnt them. My teacher told me it's OK to memorise and look at my hands while learning & playing 'longer' pieces, and that sight reading would come with reading many different pieces. Try getting some books that have loads of of short pieces / sight reading exercises, and do a few every day - seems to be working for me so far!

@missavocadoo Месяц назад

I'm glad that I learned how to play the trumpet around 7 years ago so I can read notes 😅

@SethRadu-pm9gc Месяц назад

Can you do epilogue from lalaland

@olufjakobsen6208 Месяц назад

Waoo a great vidio

@muhammadhassaantariq8906 Месяц назад

Hey Matthew, so I saw some videos of yours where you were reacting to famous piano players or youtubes etc. I wanted to suggest reacting to some Patrick Pieterschmenn (I probably butchered that name). Immaterial and some of his latest works have really been amazing pieces.

@isaacshaw1596 Месяц назад

Do you have any suggestions about books to get, I am around grade 3-5 in piano. I sight read in a brass band but that's just one line so I can sight read one line very easily but the more than one part can cause some issues so appreciate this video. Just a lot of the books my dad has are Grade 7-9 things that are really hard or just not in my skill range yet. I want to practice sight reading on slightly easier pieces than that. So wondering if you have any suggestions? thank you

@matticawood Месяц назад

I would recommend looking at the ABRSM syllabuses for grade 4/5/6 and then searching on Google for the pieces they have listed with “pdf” after them or find them on “imslp”. Then you will find the exact right level for you. However, if necessary - any music is ok! It’s about noticing what is happening in the music. What key is it in, what chords are being used, are there any scale passages, does it have any random notes that aren’t in the key? If you can try and work out what is happening in the piece of music and then very slowly navigate your way through it, then you will make progress 😊 There are also lots of compilation books of simplified versions of famous pieces that might be a good level for you.

@isaacshaw1596 Месяц назад

@@matticawood It's funny, because of I compose music, you've seen my love theme for example, it's easy for me to analyse the music but my hands don't do what I know the music is doing harmonically. (I'm a very big theory studier) That sounds stupid now I write it but it's true sadly. That might be a technique issue. It's why I wish I had a physical teacher to notice what I am doing wrong because there are occasions I don't know what I am doing wrong and I end up having to do trial and error with what fingers or positioning my hand to get it right so I can prepare to do the next move for the next chord say.

@IsalFog-qv7do 14 дней назад

Is there any way I can make my fingers more flexible on a keyboard board

@gregvisioninfosoft 8 дней назад

why are there no sharp/flat keys between B and C, and between E and F? anyone have a good answer?

@Unknown-lh3xk Месяц назад

I'd love for you to react to Phyxinon, he (or she?) makes highly virtuosic covers of game/anime songs!

@EinKeks-fw9xk Месяц назад

Is it a good idea to buy a used digital piano? 🤔🎹

@Oakeybloke Месяц назад

Probably depends on the condition 😄 Maybe try before you buy!

@ShakKy33 Месяц назад

Patrik Pietschmann please XD

@Sammysosa08 Месяц назад

I'd love that😮

@zanegart4399 Месяц назад

atonal music🙂

@quixote5844 23 дня назад

Slooooow doooown!!!

@matticawood 23 дня назад

There’s settings for that on RU-vid 😊

@quixote5844 23 дня назад

@@matticawood Just trying to help the creator to improve his video for beginners. I thought that is who the video is for.

@matticawood 23 дня назад

I think it’s a personal preference, my videos were at one time much slower, however the faster paced videos tend to be what the majority of people prefer judging by the analytics. However, rewatching or slowing the video down allows everyone to get the information they need from it 😊

@quixote5844 23 дня назад

@@matticawood i tried slowing down the video, you just sound drunk

@zephinal557 Месяц назад

Hello

@matticawood Месяц назад

Hi 👀

@FerencBreuer Месяц назад

I am playing the piano for 10 years now. I gave up on sheet music 2-3 years ago. Im only using these youtube tutorials with the falling keys. Never had more fun playing piano. Sheet music just isn't for me. It took me so much longer to learn with sheet music.