Welcome to the next INTERMEDIATE level of music reading.

Our goal is to give you as much useful information as possible in a short time. Let’s get straight to the point!

Let’s compare reading music to reading the text of a book. We can all read. How do we do it? Let’s think, could you read if you didn’t know the letters? No. We can read silently and we can read aloud. But if we don’t know letters, words, grammar, language, we can’t read. That is, the first stage is the ability to read and recognize letters. When learning a foreign language, for example, a person begins to read words when he recognizes foreign letters.

It’s exactly the same in music. The first stage is simply to recognize and read the notes, to say them out loud. This is very important, because here you need to involve different abilities: learn to read, learn to listen, connect different areas of the brain in order to memorize notes faster.

Therefore at the first stage you first need to learn to recognize the notes.

If you can’t recognize notes without an instrument, then there’s no point in playing them on your instrument. This is such a primitive very first level. But many are already stuck on it. Because here, first of all, practice is important in order to remember the notes that are located on the lines and between the lines, and on ledger lines.

That is, at the first stage, you have to learn to recognize and read notes without an instrument, until you feel some kind of ease, similar to how you read ordinary books. When reading an ordinary book, we do not think about letters. We don’t even think about words. This is often the case in music.

The goal that you need to achieve: I see – I hear – I play.

Name by voice for each note before you play.