I'm 54 years old learning piano for the first time. No one on TH-cam 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. 👏👍
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 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!
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 😀👍
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.
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!
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👍.
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
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'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!
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 TH-cam.
Hey JazzBuff23, thanks for the nice comment. If you click on my image it should take you to my TH-cam 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.
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!
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
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👍
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 😁👍
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.🙏
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😀
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?
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!!!!
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.
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
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.😩
Temporarily turned off pianodragon website to focus on birthdayselfies.com which I’m hoping will finance my own piano development. Hope to create course on learning Bach Inventions with full proof practice method in the future.
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!
I have a degree in piano performance and I've never heard this approach. Great teaching aid and great video! Thank you!
Appreciate the kind words Cosi thanks!
Truly an ACE lesson 🔥🙌🏾💯 Not only will I never forget this, but will teach it to my children and my children’s children 😁🎹💫 Giving Thanks 😊
Ha..... so glad to be a part of the family. Appreciate the appreciation :) Thanks!
I'm 54 years old learning piano for the first time. No one on TH-cam 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. 👏👍
Piano dragon you are the best teacher ever!
Don’t know about that but thank you.
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!
This channel should have 10 times the subscribers it has. Simply amazing content.
Very well explained and informative. Can't see why anyone would dislike.
Tx...dislikes must be impatient people as the first minute is slow (for beginners).
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!
WOW!!!!! THIS IS A REALLY GREAT LESSON!!!! = VERY USEFUL!!!! THANK YOU, VERY MUCH!!!
Appreciate the comment I’m glad that you found this method useful. Happy Learning!
what a gift it is to learn from someone who can make it all so simple. Brilliant job. Hope you have many happy days ahead. JP
Thanks so much and may you too have many happy days ahead👍
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!!
You’re quite welcome thank you for the kind words!
This is an ACE video! 👍 I'm amazed that something so easy (in hindsight) isn't standard teaching practice.
Thank you ACE😀👍 (Auld Unca Mick)
this was one of the actual useful piano teaching video on youtube, damn. very easy to understand and very easy to utilize!
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 😀👍
Thank you very much teach the easy way to read notes.
Thank you for the thank you Susan👍
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.
Hey, sorry for the LATE response, just noticed never replied: Thanks for watching, you are quite welcome!
This has made it a lot easier, thankyou.
Glad to hear it!👏👍
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!
👍
Thank you for explaining slowly. I have just started at age 69 and a lot of the channels on here just rattle through.
Thanks Sue ! I’ll be 69 in August. Great that you are starting now👍 Little bites and stay focused.
This is the most logical so far I've ever learned and surething is the BEST! Thank you so much for sharing this logic, I'm ecstatic!
So glad that it helps😁Thank You Evelyn!👍👋
As a visual learner this has been a helpful video!!! You are a great teacher. Thank you!
Neiba, glad it helps! Thank you! 😁
Very effective training tool, so simple. Thanks, this really helped me.
Glad to hear happy that it helps👍
Thanks. This is great. I have played for 50 years and still struggled at times. This helps
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👍.
Super helpful! Thanks, has saved me from countless counting exercises in the future.
You are quite welcome thanks 👍
Great! Best explanation that I have seen in music class and on TH-cam. Thanks so much!!!
Thanks Larry!
ur voice is like asmr calming too
What a lovely trick! Thank you!
Thanks, hey I ride a mtn bike 3xs a week year round.
Great lesson, thanks Mr.Deputy!
Thank you Alexander 😁👍
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
Wish I could sing, glad to help!
What a fantastic lesson,very unusual audio but adds to make this a very interesting lesson, thanks
Ha, yeah that audio is amateur hour 🙈 2015 - thanks👍
thank you! Finally a way of identifying those notes that doesnt confuse me
Quite welcome glad to help👍
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'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!
Thank You, you made it easier for my thick head to remember.
Ha! Yeah it’s easier than memorizing but you actually have to practice the method a little bit to make it super fast and easy 😁 Thanks
OUTSTANDING LESSON!! Thank you very much from Massachusetts, USA.
Thanks Nancy you are welcome👍
very clear presentation
Thank you Lukas👍
Thank you so much for this information. I’m not good at reading sheet music but with your method I can now work out the notes much faster.
Thank you for letting me know it helps! Appreciate that and Happy Learning👍
Simple.straightforward.impressive. Sincere Thanks.
And sincere thanks for the thanks 👍
Very good teaching technique. Thank you
👍
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 TH-cam.
Hey JazzBuff23, thanks for the nice comment. If you click on my image it should take you to my TH-cam 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.
This is an excellent method. Thanks! 💙
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!
Thank you. The double ledger line method is excellent.
Thanks Paul glad it helps…
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
Really useful video! Thank you very much for sharing it, it helped me to recognize the notes much faster!
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👍
A great way of reading the staff thanks alot! 👏🏽
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 😁👍
Genius approach👏 Thanks🫶
Thanks glad it helps! 😀👍
Ledger lines made simple in this brilliant presentation.
Thanks👍
This was a wonderful lesson and so very helpful. Thank you.
Thank you Linda glad it helps😃👍
Fantastic information. As a beginner I am struggling but it suddenly made sense to me. Thank you
Wonderful! Glad to help!
Very well conceived and delivered. Just so easy this way. Thanks so, so much.
Very welcome! Thanks..,
This is brilliant and so easy to understand and put into practise . Sincere thanks for this video
Thanks Pianoman!
Amazing teaching. Thanks and Godbless
Thanks for the kind words.😁
Thanks a lot. You are an ACE!
Ha....thanks ...
Excellent effective brief lesson ..love the A C E trick!
👏👍
Thank you! Very useful lesson
Good to hear thanks 👍
Splendid explanation 👏👏👏👏👍🌹
Thank you Prabakaran😀
I have been looking for like this lesson who explained the principles of piano.
Now I finally found. You are the best of the best.
Thank you~~~♡♡♡
Thanks for the kind words....I don’t think I am the best of the best but thank you and Happy Practicing!
Thank you for this video. It is a systematic approach which will help me immensely.
You are quite welcome and thank you for taking the time to comment. Glad to be of help! Happy Practicing!
What an excellent lesson!
Thanks John will be adding content to website and TH-cam channel soon 😃
Works for me! Thanks!
Glad to hear it👍
BRILLIANT EXPLANATION SIR....THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH....
You are most welcome
Wow! I learned something very useful tonight! Thanks!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Your welcome!
THIS WAS SO HELPFUL! THANK YOU!
Glad it helped!😁👍
Man, your video is amazing. Congratulations.
Thanks Lee!
Amazing. Thanks for sharing.
Glad to make things a little easier 👍. Thanks…
Thank you so great explanation
Thanks!
Those ledger lines are annoying mind boggling eye sore trying to figure them out but this tactic is encouraging thx u!🎹
Thanks glad it helps👍
Binlerce kere teşekkür ederim, ilk kez gördüm böyle bir teknik ve çok netleşti bazı şeyler kafamda. Allah razı olsun..
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.🙏
Glad it helped thanks👍
Very good. Thank you.
Thanks Jeff 👍
Excellent explanation ! .... thanks very much !
Cheers Roj
Hey, sorry for the LATE response, just noticed never replied: Thanks for watching, you are quite welcome!
thank you for the explanation, as a beginner this is very helpful ❤ subscribed right away
Glad it’s helpful thanks👍
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😀
Very very good lesson!!!!! Thanks
You are welcome! Thanks😁
Obrigada pela sua "didática clara e esclarecedora e inédita" . Você é O VERDADEIRO MESTRE. Muito obrigada mesmo.
Thank you for your overly generous comments. Glad you found the video helpful. Happy Learning!
Namasthe Sir,
Very useful lesson. Thanking you.
Namasthe. 🙏
Namasthe and thank you!
Brilliant, so nicely explained, thank you.
Glad to help thank you👍
Incredible helpful
Thank you Ruba!
I feel studid as well as enlightened now. Thank you.
Hey, sorry for the LATE response, just noticed never replied: Your quite welcome!
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?
Glad it helped I’d say ledger lines are used more and va is used when too many ledger lines are needed.
FABULOUS! THANK YOU.
thank you, Rose!👍
Great lesson, merci beaucoup.
Thanks Lawrence, If you want to really hone your ledger line skills check out my free course: pianodragon.com/courses/ledger-lines-made-easy/
You are a smart guy
Hey, sorry for the LATE response, just noticed never replied: I'm only smart once in a while but thanks :)
Thank you
Glad to help👍
Great lesson ,very helpful
Thanks J👍
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!!!!
You are quite welcome. So glad that you care enough about music to be excited about a ledger line video! Happy practicing👍
Really informative and well explained. Very helpful. Thanks.
Quite welcome thanks Mick👍
man your voice is so soothing
I want you to focus not fall asleep, so I’ll have to sharpen up my voice🙈
3:33 Screenshot worthy; TY!!
Good idea ACE! Your welcome 😃👍
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.
Hey Deisson, Thanks for the kind comment, glad it helps and enjoy the new year!
Genius!
Glad it helps Phyllis thanks:) free LLine course using this idea on my site: pianodragon.com
Brilliant!
Thanks Crystal 😀
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
interesting!
Love the information given. Also understand now how music can be written above or below the lines using 8va and 8vb.
Glad to help👍
Brilliant. Thank you.
Glad it helps! Thanks
Brilliant! Thank you
Thank you Japie😁👍
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.😩
If you do mnemonic enough it will become instant 👍 Thanks....Happy practicing!
I now get the treble leger Lines it's basically the pattern of bass
Thank you for this !
Thank you for the thank you!
Thank you
You are quite welcome! Happy practicing!
ty this was easy to follow do u have any other vids on teaching? im a beginner piano player n trying to learn to read music
Temporarily turned off pianodragon website to focus on birthdayselfies.com which I’m hoping will finance my own piano development. Hope to create course on learning Bach Inventions with full proof practice method in the future.
Seems I have to listen and watch this video many times....parts of it come easy....yet the last section...not so easy...thank yu for your work
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 :-)
Piano Dragon .... like the Hanon scales....!!! Practice pretty much every day....🎹
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!
Wow! This has helped me so much💞
👏👍thanks that’s great!