Right. I tried to get really good at sight reading on the piano in my 20s after years of guitar by ear. Trying to get really good at reading/playing Bach and Beethoven, even their simplest peices was impossible for me. You've got chords on both hands, not to mention key signatures automatically adding sharps and flats, plus additional sharps and flats added at will into the piece lol, plus the natural symbol. Then, the counting and timing on top of it all from whole notes to 64th notes 😂. I wanted to get good enough to play almost anything at first look, I progressed a lot but nowhere near i was dreaming of. @@TheTerrylwg
I stopped playing music because every time I would play for a girl thinking I'm impressing her it would actually remind them of the fact they quit playing piano because they were taught to focus their attention on abortion or the patriarchy. So it depressed them and I realized it's better to not show women how much unskilled they were comparted to their male peers that they thought were equal to them in the classroom but in actuality the boys all these other skills that are not forced on them they just chose to learn on their own. And we would play on old broken guitars and pianos if that is all we could get a hold of because we liked the challenge and difficulty that distinguished us from our competition.
I gave up piano at around 11 years old. Today I am 67! If you had been my teacher then, I would have never stopped! So clear and understandable this way. Now I think I will start again with your help. Thank you!
I am going to buy a Roland 90x and touch a piano key for the first time in my life soon - I hope I dont give up like all those others that quit at 11 years old LOL I want to learn how to play " Snowy Morning " by that Bouchal guy
I am a lead guitar player in a band....you just explained this better than anyone I have ever seen. God bless you dear! I am finally NOT overwhelmed! It's all a matter of practicing what you teach to become familiar. The light just went on! Thank you so much!
I am a musician and learned how to read music at 32. I’m now 54 and teaching beginning guitar,Ukulele,drums and piano, this short video helped me read music better.:)
55 years old and just got my first electric piano to learn. I found this channel, and this video makes so much sense. I would normally look at a bit of sheet music and be totally mind blown as if it was written in some alien language. This totally simplifies it for old noobs like me. Thanks so much for this video. BTW, Lisa is a lovely teacher. So enthusiastic and cheerful. Think I've gotten my first teachers crush in many decades lol
Hi mi am 54 and I am trying to learn too to play piano at church. I am a little scared but I am happy you are also learning. Blessings to you and all your family.
I am 61 yrs old and buying an elelctric piano for our house this Christmas. I play guitar and can read some music but just watching this one video, I am encouraged that I will be able to play the piano at my age. Thank you and I look forward to seeing ALL your videos! Thank you again Kevin
You're gettin' up there brother. I myself am 180 and the first thing to go was my hearing, then my teeth, and now my eyeballs are falling out and I got no hair.
I'm 62 and have wanted to learn the piano since in grade school. My husband gifted me a piano for my birthday and I found you via the free software offer through purchase of the piano. I've been taking Lisa's courses and I love them. So easy to follow and I love her enthusiasm and coaching. Thank you for this video. It has made learning to read music so much easier.
I am new !! Don’t hv a piano … hv been wanting to play … but they are so expensive…is it possible for you recommend .. best cheap purchase … so that I can learn playing this amazing instrument?!!
Your presentation is Eloquent, and an example to other presenters: Sincere Enthusiasm; Thoughtful Preplanning!; Lucid demonstration of Patterns!; you absorbed Every second of my attention! Very Well Done. So many kids of all ages can gain from this Intro!
I've been playing violin for 8 years, and landmark notes have always helped me so much. Same with patterns, too. These techniques can also be applied to many other instruments, and are truly game-changer methods of sight reading sheet music! Thank you!
When I turned 50 I decided to get a piano (I'm 56 now)... just by listening,, and trial and error, I learned some stuff,, especially creating my own music. BUT... I have never had the ambition or patience to learn to read notes... Until watching this.... Wow.. Thank you... this is the beginning to a new universe... Thank you so much. ❤
I have been subconsciously doing this for a long time now. Requires a lot of practice for your brain to just look at the staff and think "oh thats a 6th" especially for bigger intervals but this is way better than the regular way with the acronyms. Thanks for showing this method to a larger audience
I'm still far from being skilled in this, but I think I see it will be coming together in multiple ways with experience, some a bit sooner, some later - landmarks, intervals, more landmarks, also seeing whole chords, also being better able to convert what you hear in your mind if you know the piece to notes or chords, also predictively... sometimes you'll use one, sometimes the other, and later usually more of them together.
@@lumpichu yeah being able to mentally hear what you're playing does go a long way in sight reading. I'm sure you'll soon be an absolute pro at sight reading. every professional was once just a beginner after all
I've tried to learn to read music so many times. Previous teachers abandoned me, as I couldn't get it. Thanks for your explanation, I paused the video and figured out the answer before you told me (and got it right - yippee). A small step but one I'm delighted with, thank you
I just learned more in 8 minutes about reading notes than I have over the last 40 years. Thank you so much for creating this video! I can't believe how easily this is clicking in my mind now. People have tried to explain how sheet music works and/or what intervals are to me and it just never made sense until now. This is amazing! Surf Wisely.
Of all the attempts I got to learn reading notes, this is the first time I have ever clicked at grasping the concept because your method is much simpler and it sticks easily. Thank you!
I'm 53 and just now learning how to play the saxophone and read sheet music. My primary go to instructor for the sax is Jay Metcalf but am still looking for a go to sheet music instructor. So far, I like you. Thanks for an awesome video, and personality.
I really want to thank you for these lessons. I have played the piano for a long time, but for some reason I stopped playing. I decided to start playing again..... But when I thought it was going to be a breeze. I couldn't remember just about nothing, complete blank battled and couldn't understand what I was doing. Your lessons have worken up my brain and everything started to fall into place. I 'my 76 yrs old and am so greatful for finding your site..... THANK YOU. You've given me a refresher course. ❤❤
It’s much better to avoid the acronyms. I know of kids who learned that way and had difficult reading the staff efficiently. If you have to think of the acronym versus just reading the note immediately, it’s really tough to play more difficult pieces. I also found lots had trouble understanding ledger lines.
I was the same way when I was little. We moved into a house with a piano, and I was reading music with no instruction. It just clicked! My mom got rid of our piano, and I didn't get a chance to play again until I was an adult and could get my own piano. If only I would have been encouraged and allowed to have access to a piano instead of blocked from it.
I started doing piano for like 2 years in middle school and that was like 6 years ago wow. But after pandemic i stopped because i didnt have my teacher anymore and i felt lost because i never noticed that i lacked sight reading because i always memorized all the sheets and now i find it so difficult to read and play at the same time. Im back as a beginner but i wanna stay and this was so helpful it made recognize a lot of patterns i never thought of Edit: also its even harder to learn online bc i learn with do re mi, but now i have to learn with c d e which confuses a lot my mind ngl haha
Hello. Thank you so much for your beautiful video. I'm a piano teacher and like you, I believe in the method you are using. I have to say that I never met anyone who was using acronyms with success. I could see how every person who was trying to remember the words for the notes, was struggling with reading the notes and most of them were ending up writing the letter names for the notes in their music books. The acronyms are just taking people away from the actual learning. The method you are describing makes perfect sense and it works. Everyone in my practice who was following this method, became very fluent in reading the music. Thank you for putting your heart and soul into teaching. Your video is very inspiring and positive. Kind wishes, Nadia
I learned as a child the acronyms, but your method certainly makes sense to me and I like the idea of having landmarks. I haven't played since I was a teen, so I have to relearn not only reading the notes, but how much they are worth. Quarter note- 1 beat and so on. Thank you.
I'm from a family of music teachers. My mom has taught piano for over 50 years. This is how she taught us since I was a child. Landmarks and intervals/patterns. My sister and I have always taught this way, too - we teach strings.
I’m seventy and have always wanted to play but have dyslexia which I think made learning music more difficult. Today I discovered this video lesson thought I would give it a try, what’s to lose. Suddenly things stared to come together in my head and it was all making a lot more sense. Thank you! It seemed less intimidating and I had a sense I could see how things were working and coming together. I feel I will watch MORE and see where this takes me. Wish I had this feeling of understanding and optimism of music fifty years ago. Maybe I could have caught on and would be able to take this somewhere and enjoy music so much more, MAYBE. Can old people still learn to play or is it likely just a dream?
Not only can you learn, but the process is extremely good for brain health. Some people with dyslexia are highly skilled with music in ways that conpensate for their struggles with reading,
Off and on guitar player here who knows how to read guitar tabulature, and knows a good amount of chords. Was in band in Elementary and vaguely learned how to read sheet music using the ACRONYMS but always thought piano was some scary thing that I’d never learn. You just made this so easy, and know I feel empowered to continue learning. Thank you and thank goodness for the days of video tutorials and the internet!
I started orchestra lessons in the 4th grade playing upright bass and I still remember the day this clicked for me and it was so exciting! Now 15 years later you've helped it click for treble clef and piano :) thank you!
I'm in my 50s, played piano and clarinet as a child, and THIS is the first time anyone has ever explained what a musical 5th is! Thank you for this simple video!
Thank you for this! I have driven myself crazy with "Every Good Boy Does Fine", and "Good Boys Do Fine Always". I think your strategy will finally help me to learn to site read.
This was the simplest explanation that I’ve ever heard and it’s one I can remember! The connection between the bass and treble clef was completely foreign to me and you’ve opened me up to actually begin playing piano! Thank you so much!
I went for piano classes when I was young.. this is like 30 years ago.. I quit because it was "too hard" for me, I couldn't read the notes, I wasn't told the meaning of the lines and for all these years I've never ever thought about looking it up. I always wanted to play, but I thought it was too hard. I just thought, I can't do it, I don't understand the lines and I can't figure our which note is what on the keyboard/piano. If I were taught this, maybe I would have played piano today, maybe I could have played songs like "everyone" else.. Maybe I could have become an artist.. This video, seriously, made me cry. After 30 years I finally understand, why haven't I looked this up earlier.. Thank you! You don't know what this means to me. Thank you! ❤
I am from India and a university professor in business management. I am 43 and have started recently with piano notes. I have been playing the chords since 1996 but took to notation only recently. I follow your channel and a few others, and things get simpler. I am using Simply Piano in its full version, and it is helping me a lot. I practice 1 hour daily (3 shifts of 20 minutes each), and now I am able to read both the bass and cleft notes, but slowly. I am sure that in a year or two, I will be able to increase my speed. I just ordered Roland FP-10 and I cannot wait to unbox it and start playing.
I haven’t played since playing as a child in piano lessons. I forgot how to read music ‘intuitively’ like this! I watched this video and it all came back to me!! Thank you for explaining in a way my old 49 year-old brain could interpret and remember!!
This is a great concept for learning notes. It's called sightreading and it helped me a lot to finally be able to look at a piece and at least somehow being able to read and play it without assistance.
I remember learning this method when I first started piano lessons...it's still a good one, easy to remember and fun to learn. Hopefully everyone learning piano uses it.
Your so inspiring, thank you so much. I'm 75 and have PTSD for most of my life from being in Nam. Your method of teaching makes me feel happy thank you so much, I really enjoy your videos.
I love this method too. I also find younger students have fun with acronyms because the animal names are fun. For example Every Good Bird Deserves Food they remember for Treble lines since birds fly high like the high notes etc.
@@JJ_TheGreat I learned it that way too in elementary school. Once I became a teacher i got more creative with which ones I used. For example, an older adult student 40+ will usually get a kick out of Even George Bush Drives Fast...etc
When i learned to memorize the notes on the lines. My teacher taught me "Every Good Boy Does Fine, and the notes between the lines spell F A C E. But this is a great lesson, explained very clearly, better than my teacher did
I’ve always been struggling with the bass notes and it slowed down my learning so much. I tried it out after watching this video and oh boy I can read the notes so much faster now!! Thank you 🙌
I never learned this thing but now at 17 i want to be a singer and a rapper so i just came across this and its so incredible im loving this I'll definitely work hard on this❤
I took piano lessons for 8ish years as a kid and got very good..the thing is, I had the gift of playing by ear so I never cared to focus on reading sheet music. So now 10 years after not touching a piano, I still have the hands for it but the ability to just hear something a time or 2 and play it has left me. So now learning to read music actually feels important and videos like this help. Thank you!
I have taught this way for years, and you're absolutely right, it's how music was meant to be read and how music reading SHOULD be taught. And in fact, it SHOULD be quite easy. It's how I've always thought about reading music, and it has worked perfectly for me. That being said, the number of times I have to explain and re-explain these concepts makes me seriously doubt most of humanity's intelligence. You don't know how many people would genuinely be confused by something like 6:28, and how many times I have to prompt people, "If it comes back to the same place again, IT'S THE SAME NOTE AGAIN." You'd think that wouldn't even have to be explained (you certainly didn't spend much time in on it in this video)! There are some people that seem literally unable to mentally distinguish between "line" and "space" notes even if they can always tell you verbally which one it is. I think I'm going to go bang my head against a wall. (Sorry, just needed to vent, great video lol)
And some children into the third grade can't tell the difference between their left and right hands. Even after many hints, reminders, and memory aids. As a piano teacher myself I can't tell you how frustrating this is with some students. "Ok, Paul, now use the Other right hand." 😉
I took piano lessons in my late 20's for 2 years-was taught by acronyms. My brain got stuck on the acronyms for the line and space notes and could not read the music just by the notes. I did not stick with the piano out of frustration. Well, 20 years later and I am starting again with piano. I found this video and the way you are teaching this is so simple! It makes sense-start with C then count alphabet up or down not separating the lines and spaces into two groupings. Thank you!
I took piano as a child for 6 years. The acronyms I think is what confused me so much and kept me from learning to read music simply. It just never clicked and I walked away from it. This just helped me understand it better!! ❤
This is amazing!! I haven't played since I was 9 (decades ago) and this was absolutely fantastic. I feel like I learned more today than I did in all the lessons I attended as a child. I learned the acronyms (completely forgot though) and this was far easier than what I remember learning as a child. Thank you. I'm so excited to learn to play piano. God bless for sharing your gift with us.
What's the hype then? In the end we need to get the notes into our backbone anyway - like we do when we apply the alphabet to our reading skill. If the cows etc help you initially that's OK as well.
This gorgeous pixie made me SUBSCRIBE! Her energy, facial expressions, clarity of voice and content is superb. And the DIMPLE!!! I'm about to be 79 years of age, and have been playing musical instruments, by ear (but mostly fingers) since I was a teenager, starting with a Gibson Les Paul electric guitar. I've accumulated and have had fun playing harmonicas ("Blues harp"), Pennywhistles/tinwhistles, native American flutes, mandolin, fiddle (a violin when wearing shoes), and keyboard. Hopefully this pixie will teach my left hand how to play nicely with my right hand, on the keyboard - I only play melody, with my right hand. My left hand doesn't know what to do and how to integrate with my right hand.
Brilliantly presented. Thank you. Used to play classical piano as an elementary school kid and was proficient with reading notes, but my old brain isn't quite coping with them now. This will help immensely.
Ehm, thanks Captain Obvious. I guess this is the biggest waste of bits and bytes on the youtube servers. Sorry, who does not know what you told here? And why did it take 8 minutes?
Since my childhood days i always wish learning to play the piano, now i'm 55 and i still wished i still can, i have gone over your videos and my hope was still high, i believe i will learn so much from you and my wish will come true, it's never too late 🥰😍😍i have ordered a portable piano to begin with i'm really so excited and you have given me much of an inspiration to continue to learn 😍
I understand guitar. But could never read the notes in music. They never explained anything about the notes in grade school. You have cleared this up for me finally. You should also teach music to new students. You’re a wizard. Seems in school they assume they point to a note and they think ok so now you know the whole system and how it works. Your are my super hero of music now. Thank you so much😊.
This is great. I'm getting started with piano and I could probably watch hundreds of things likes this to follow along with and practice. This is the first video I've watched of yours and I got the feeling that you're probably a great singer, judging by the quality of your voice.
Thank you, this was really helpful. I'm 62, bought a Baldwin piano back in 2016 and have only tinkered with it, no lessons but just trying it out. Of course, it felt very difficult and I haven't done anything serious with it since. As a kid I played trumpet but have long since forgotten how to read sheet music and this is a great first lesson for me. I love what piano can do and really want to put in some time with lessons like yours and others. I'll be watching a bunch of your videos and putting these exercises into practice. There may be hope for me yet!!
My grandmother was a piano player, woudl say I had piano hands, she never read music. Never thought I never could till I saw your video. Thank You for the amazin education. Im pumped to learn how to read music! 🤯🖐🖐💪
im a flute player and i have started 6 months ago.. you made this video 5 months ago, ngl i kinda figured these stuff out a month after studying flute. ive grown so much since then! wish ive seen this video sooner :')
Thank you for this very intuitive and brilliant tutorial - my 10 year old saw your video today and is inspiring her to resume her piano lessons after a 2 yrs cold spell playing piano. You are an awesome teacher ❤
I came here so overwhelmed, just wanting to be able to play whole me and my son sing at church and I was instantly relieved! Thank you so mush, this was such a break down!
This is Wonderful Madam, First of all my Grateful Thanks. You teach us so Fascinatingly. I'm over 50, and play by the ear. This is my First Piano lesson, thank God that met you such a Great Charming, very Polite💫🙏 music teacher, God bless you, All the Best !
I'm glad the world has changed and there's programs like this and music teachers like you. You must really be helpful to students who have dyslexia, back in the 1970s we were told we're just stupid.
I've been putting it off , learning to play my keyboard just because I was so worried that I would struggle to read music. Now I can't wait to get started. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this. I had the hardest time trying to understand sight reading and then I watched this and I can't believe after being a musician for 20+ years that could not read music at all and I am now just starting, but this is so much easier than FACE and Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge and all of that nonsense.
For the bass clef, it is not the circle at the back, but rather the 2 dots. Both clefs were written as the letter itself. Their modern standardization comes from an adaptation of those early letters to make it more universal. The dots on the bass clef help to limit the confusion of having the 2 lines of F around a line on the staff. As a lutenist, I play and read lots of early music, and as an academic, I care about finding the earliest editions of music to work from that I can. All that said... Yes, we should absolutely begin instruction with an understanding of the musical alphabet and of what clefs do.
G for the G cleff and F for the f cleff they are even called sometimes by these namea in German. Violin Cleff and Bass Cleff. The secret in reading is practice. Just like normal reading. First single letters - single notes than. The melodies, accords, harmonies. That's why instrument lessons in music schools should be accompanied by theory lessons with practice to how to read notes and write notes.
for the longest time i was told that it was egbdf face and i was never taught the bass clef. once i reached high school, i took a piano class and that’s when i realized it was the alphabet. from then on it was just memorization. this was actually the greatest thing i ever learned thank you
I had no interest in learning piano....until now! Wow, you have made this so simple and fun! What a great technique of teaching! Your energy is contagious as well!
Reading music has always been one of those things I had a hard time with since I'm dyslexic but putting it in these terms and thinking about it in the since that all the notes can be references to other notes mathematically (especially with music theory) instead of with the whole letter memorization thing has helped me a lot. It's actually exactly how I do math in my head. I use specific numbers as references to how far away other numbers are. This video paired with Andrew Huang's 30 minute music theory video here on TH-cam really helped me be able to make sense of the staff. Amazing tips as always!
Yes, this is the way to do it. I’ve been teaching for 30 years, and I have always found that intervals and landmark notes are the way to go. I also learned the acronyms as a child, and sometimes I still bring them up, but only if nothing else is working! I also teach intervals in groups of odds (3,5,7) and evens(2,4,6). There are more patterns developed from that.
I've been playing the piano since I was 8 years old, and I can widow any song, no problem, but I can't read notes. I know how to play chords, bass lines, progression, and a little runs, but that's it. I am also a singer, and I can pitch match no problem. Later on in life, I joined my church choir. Everybody is reading notes, even those who are a lot older than me and, of course, those who are younger than me. I can pitch match any note and will just memorize it, but in my opinion, reading notes and familiarizing the song through a music sheet is a lot more convenient. Now I regret I never studied reading notes. Thanks to your video, I am learning the fundamentals. Looking forward to learning more!
I am a piano teacher, and detest acronyms - my favourite 'landmark notes' are all the C's - high C and low C, being mirror images of each other, and then high-high C, and low-low C being mirror images of each other. Your method is excellent, and you expalin it simply and clearly, with enthusiasm. Well done!
My mom was a professional pianist and occasionally taught piano. I could never understand what the heck those lines and dots meant. So I never learned to play the the piano. I have a great ear. I figured someone had to be the audience. This is the first thing about musical notation that has ever made any sense to me in 70 years.
This was the best explaination I have every seen or heard. I have taught myself to play on keyboard by A-B-C-D-E-F-G using computers... gave up on notes because it all looked so tedious and complex... now you removed that from my brain! THANKS A LOT!!!! Instant subscriber to your channel now!
I just staeted piano from scratch. I suffred a stroke and doctor recommended tto learn something new, so to me is about being normal again as far as mwmory, vision and reactio. Love yout videos
Visit our blog for a written version of this lesson with diagrams >> www.pianote.com/blog/sight-reading-piano/
This video made so much more sense than the acronyms, patterns? Now we’re talk in’ 😃🤣
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As someone who last read music in 6th grade and is now starting to learn how to play the piano at 50 years old, thank you!!!
Same here, except I'm 58 and a guitar player
Me, too. 6th grade flute and organ, and now 64. I lost the ability to read music decades ago and it doesn't come as easily as it did then.
Right. I tried to get really good at sight reading on the piano in my 20s after years of guitar by ear. Trying to get really good at reading/playing Bach and Beethoven, even their simplest peices was impossible for me. You've got chords on both hands, not to mention key signatures automatically adding sharps and flats, plus additional sharps and flats added at will into the piece lol, plus the natural symbol. Then, the counting and timing on top of it all from whole notes to 64th notes 😂. I wanted to get good enough to play almost anything at first look, I progressed a lot but nowhere near i was dreaming of. @@TheTerrylwg
I stopped playing music because every time I would play for a girl thinking I'm impressing her it would actually remind them of the fact they quit playing piano because they were taught to focus their attention on abortion or the patriarchy. So it depressed them and I realized it's better to not show women how much unskilled they were comparted to their male peers that they thought were equal to them in the classroom but in actuality the boys all these other skills that are not forced on them they just chose to learn on their own. And we would play on old broken guitars and pianos if that is all we could get a hold of because we liked the challenge and difficulty that distinguished us from our competition.
I'm 53 and just starting. Oldie noob powa !! 😆😆😆
I gave up piano at around 11 years old. Today I am 67! If you had been my teacher then, I would have never stopped! So clear and understandable this way. Now I think I will start again with your help. Thank you!
Same here, only I'm 59.
best opening I've ever seen. You got me!
38 here and finally pulling my keyboard back out after 20 years.
I am going to buy a Roland 90x and touch a piano key for the first time in my life soon - I hope I dont give up like all those others that quit at 11 years old LOL I want to learn how to play " Snowy Morning " by that Bouchal guy
im currently in my teen years learning to play the piano after my old one broke more than 10 years ago but i dont have the time
i'll do it tomorrow
I am a lead guitar player in a band....you just explained this better than anyone I have ever seen. God bless you dear! I am finally NOT overwhelmed! It's all a matter of practicing what you teach to become familiar. The light just went on! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much! ❤
Lisa is a phenomenal teacher. :-)
Music sheet are just tabs for piano lol
Nice Teaching.Thankyou.
Guitar players don't read music, though, right?! 😉
I am a musician and learned how to read music at 32. I’m now 54 and teaching beginning guitar,Ukulele,drums and piano, this short video helped me read music better.:)
Me too ao you have to take time practice
55 years old and just got my first electric piano to learn. I found this channel, and this video makes so much sense. I would normally look at a bit of sheet music and be totally mind blown as if it was written in some alien language. This totally simplifies it for old noobs like me. Thanks so much for this video. BTW, Lisa is a lovely teacher. So enthusiastic and cheerful. Think I've gotten my first teachers crush in many decades lol
She always reminds me of Robyn , the singer 😅
37 and wanting to order a descent one to start on and try getting my son interested. 😊
Hi mi am 54 and I am trying to learn too to play piano at church. I am a little scared but I am happy you are also learning. Blessings to you and all your family.
dw i am a noob too at 14
Keep on going,I am 87 and learning pianoforte,buone giornate
I am 61 yrs old and buying an elelctric piano for our house this Christmas. I play guitar and can read some music but just watching this one video, I am encouraged that I will be able to play the piano at my age. Thank you and I look forward to seeing ALL your videos! Thank you again Kevin
I'm 191 years old and this is the best instruction I've ever seen.
? 191?
@@maxinecamargo4644: Actually, yesterday was my birthday, so I"m now 192. Regards from Canada.
You're gettin' up there brother. I myself am 180 and the first thing to go was my hearing, then my teeth, and now my eyeballs are falling out and I got no hair.
@@plane_guy6051: You still have your sense of humor, so don't fret, you'll be fine.
191 years old is a landmark all its own!
I'm 62 and have wanted to learn the piano since in grade school. My husband gifted me a piano for my birthday and I found you via the free software offer through purchase of the piano. I've been taking Lisa's courses and I love them. So easy to follow and I love her enthusiasm and coaching. Thank you for this video. It has made learning to read music so much easier.
I am new !! Don’t hv a piano … hv been wanting to play … but they are so expensive…is it possible for you recommend .. best cheap purchase … so that I can learn playing this amazing instrument?!!
Your explanation was great … but a novice like me still found it difficult..!!! Hmm which is the center C ?!!
For someone with almost no musical training this is so clarifying. Thank you!!!!!
Your presentation is Eloquent, and an example to other presenters: Sincere Enthusiasm; Thoughtful Preplanning!; Lucid demonstration of Patterns!; you absorbed Every second of my attention! Very Well Done. So many kids of all ages can gain from this Intro!
I've been playing violin for 8 years, and landmark notes have always helped me so much. Same with patterns, too. These techniques can also be applied to many other instruments, and are truly game-changer methods of sight reading sheet music! Thank you!
When I turned 50 I decided to get a piano (I'm 56 now)... just by listening,, and trial and error, I learned some stuff,, especially creating my own music. BUT... I have never had the ambition or patience to learn to read notes... Until watching this.... Wow.. Thank you... this is the beginning to a new universe... Thank you so much. ❤
I have been subconsciously doing this for a long time now. Requires a lot of practice for your brain to just look at the staff and think "oh thats a 6th" especially for bigger intervals but this is way better than the regular way with the acronyms. Thanks for showing this method to a larger audience
I'm still far from being skilled in this, but I think I see it will be coming together in multiple ways with experience, some a bit sooner, some later - landmarks, intervals, more landmarks, also seeing whole chords, also being better able to convert what you hear in your mind if you know the piece to notes or chords, also predictively... sometimes you'll use one, sometimes the other, and later usually more of them together.
@@lumpichu yeah being able to mentally hear what you're playing does go a long way in sight reading. I'm sure you'll soon be an absolute pro at sight reading. every professional was once just a beginner after all
I've tried to learn to read music so many times. Previous teachers abandoned me, as I couldn't get it. Thanks for your explanation, I paused the video and figured out the answer before you told me (and got it right - yippee). A small step but one I'm delighted with, thank you
I just learned more in 8 minutes about reading notes than I have over the last 40 years. Thank you so much for creating this video! I can't believe how easily this is clicking in my mind now. People have tried to explain how sheet music works and/or what intervals are to me and it just never made sense until now. This is amazing!
Surf Wisely.
Of all the attempts I got to learn reading notes, this is the first time I have ever clicked at grasping the concept because your method is much simpler and it sticks easily. Thank you!
I'm 53 and just now learning how to play the saxophone and read sheet music. My primary go to instructor for the sax is Jay Metcalf but am still looking for a go to sheet music instructor. So far, I like you. Thanks for an awesome video, and personality.
I love how you inadvertently taught us how to play the first part of Can't Help Falling In Love 😍
Clever you! I didn't even notice myself.
I`m guessing that beginning of "smells like teen spirit" 🤣
I thought I was the only one who caught that!! 😂
I really want to thank you for these lessons. I have played the piano for a long time, but for some reason I stopped playing. I decided to start playing again..... But when I thought it was going to be a breeze. I couldn't remember just about nothing, complete blank battled and couldn't understand what I was doing. Your lessons have worken up my brain and everything started to fall into place. I 'my 76 yrs old and am so greatful for finding your site..... THANK YOU. You've given me a refresher course. ❤❤
My daughter was able to read notes without memorizing the acronyms, she said she just learned where the notes are, so I think it's the landmark.
Nice
It’s much better to avoid the acronyms. I know of kids who learned that way and had difficult reading the staff efficiently. If you have to think of the acronym versus just reading the note immediately, it’s really tough to play more difficult pieces. I also found lots had trouble understanding ledger lines.
My teacher taught me this but ignored her! LOL but it helped me to be class in grade 6 getting 143/150
I was the same way when I was little. We moved into a house with a piano, and I was reading music with no instruction. It just clicked! My mom got rid of our piano, and I didn't get a chance to play again until I was an adult and could get my own piano. If only I would have been encouraged and allowed to have access to a piano instead of blocked from it.
Please encourage her!! Reading music is such a beautiful skill! And take it from me, it desire to play the piano never goes away!
I have just had my first ever lesson at the grand old age of 50, have a piano being delivered next week, can't wait to start my journey
FINALLY a good teacher who makes it simple to learn
You're a hero, b.
Love her energy and her enthusiasm.
Did you just assume they're gender?
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408they are gender?
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 ???
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 nahhhhhhhhh
I started doing piano for like 2 years in middle school and that was like 6 years ago wow. But after pandemic i stopped because i didnt have my teacher anymore and i felt lost because i never noticed that i lacked sight reading because i always memorized all the sheets and now i find it so difficult to read and play at the same time. Im back as a beginner but i wanna stay and this was so helpful it made recognize a lot of patterns i never thought of
Edit: also its even harder to learn online bc i learn with do re mi, but now i have to learn with c d e which confuses a lot my mind ngl haha
I'm surprised you don't have the natural gift to just play by ear
Brilliant. I always struggled reading notes until this was explained in such a simple effective way
Hello. Thank you so much for your beautiful video. I'm a piano teacher and like you, I believe in the method you are using. I have to say that I never met anyone who was using acronyms with success. I could see how every person who was trying to remember the words for the notes, was struggling with reading the notes and most of them were ending up writing the letter names for the notes in their music books. The acronyms are just taking people away from the actual learning. The method you are describing makes perfect sense and it works. Everyone in my practice who was following this method, became very fluent in reading the music. Thank you for putting your heart and soul into teaching. Your video is very inspiring and positive.
Kind wishes,
Nadia
I learned as a child the acronyms, but your method certainly makes sense to me and I like the idea of having landmarks. I haven't played since I was a teen, so I have to relearn not only reading the notes, but how much they are worth. Quarter note- 1 beat and so on. Thank you.
I am 60+ hoping to learn piano . Since I am free and piano is of no use.
Your lesson is easy to follow.
Love it. Thank you
Thank you for watching!
I have been playing for 5 years and this is the best tips for reading I've ever got.
If you don't mind then can you tell me what was your age when you started learning the piano for the very first time?
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I'm from a family of music teachers. My mom has taught piano for over 50 years. This is how she taught us since I was a child. Landmarks and intervals/patterns. My sister and I have always taught this way, too - we teach strings.
I’m seventy and have always wanted to play but have dyslexia which I think made learning music more difficult. Today I discovered this video lesson thought I would give it a try, what’s to lose. Suddenly things stared to come together in my head and it was all making a lot more sense. Thank you! It seemed less intimidating and I had a sense I could see how things were working and coming together. I feel I will watch MORE and see where this takes me. Wish I had this feeling of understanding and optimism of music fifty years ago. Maybe I could have caught on and would be able to take this somewhere and enjoy music so much more, MAYBE. Can old people still learn to play or is it likely just a dream?
Anyone any age can learn!
I've met a flute player who starting learning to play at 90! You've got this
It's just a dream
Not only can you learn, but the process is extremely good for brain health. Some people with dyslexia are highly skilled with music in ways that conpensate for their struggles with reading,
@@tweakmygroovebox608 Well said!
Off and on guitar player here who knows how to read guitar tabulature, and knows a good amount of chords. Was in band in Elementary and vaguely learned how to read sheet music using the ACRONYMS but always thought piano was some scary thing that I’d never learn. You just made this so easy, and know I feel empowered to continue learning. Thank you and thank goodness for the days of video tutorials and the internet!
She’s my favorite teacher of all time, we are truly blessed with her ability to share music with us all :)
I started orchestra lessons in the 4th grade playing upright bass and I still remember the day this clicked for me and it was so exciting! Now 15 years later you've helped it click for treble clef and piano :) thank you!
A pleasure! Thanks for watching✨
Been playing music for years and I have never seen this concept taught so simply. This definitely changed the way I read sheet music. Thank you!
but she is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo discusting
I'm in my 50s, played piano and clarinet as a child, and THIS is the first time anyone has ever explained what a musical 5th is! Thank you for this simple video!
Thank you for this! I have driven myself crazy with "Every Good Boy Does Fine", and "Good Boys Do Fine Always". I think your strategy will finally help me to learn to site read.
This was the simplest explanation that I’ve ever heard and it’s one I can remember! The connection between the bass and treble clef was completely foreign to me and you’ve opened me up to actually begin playing piano!
Thank you so much!
So this is the best simplification of notes I've seen and got this quicker than the old go to. Bravo !
I went for piano classes when I was young.. this is like 30 years ago.. I quit because it was "too hard" for me, I couldn't read the notes, I wasn't told the meaning of the lines and for all these years I've never ever thought about looking it up. I always wanted to play, but I thought it was too hard. I just thought, I can't do it, I don't understand the lines and I can't figure our which note is what on the keyboard/piano.
If I were taught this, maybe I would have played piano today, maybe I could have played songs like "everyone" else.. Maybe I could have become an artist.. This video, seriously, made me cry. After 30 years I finally understand, why haven't I looked this up earlier..
Thank you! You don't know what this means to me. Thank you! ❤
I am from India and a university professor in business management. I am 43 and have started recently with piano notes. I have been playing the chords since 1996 but took to notation only recently. I follow your channel and a few others, and things get simpler. I am using Simply Piano in its full version, and it is helping me a lot. I practice 1 hour daily (3 shifts of 20 minutes each), and now I am able to read both the bass and cleft notes, but slowly. I am sure that in a year or two, I will be able to increase my speed. I just ordered Roland FP-10 and I cannot wait to unbox it and start playing.
I haven’t played since playing as a child in piano lessons. I forgot how to read music ‘intuitively’ like this! I watched this video and it all came back to me!! Thank you for explaining in a way my old 49 year-old brain could interpret and remember!!
This is a great concept for learning notes. It's called sightreading and it helped me a lot to finally be able to look at a piece and at least somehow being able to read and play it without assistance.
I remember learning this method when I first started piano lessons...it's still a good one, easy to remember and fun to learn. Hopefully everyone learning piano uses it.
Your so inspiring, thank you so much. I'm 75 and have PTSD for most of my life from being in Nam. Your method of teaching makes me feel happy thank you so much, I really enjoy your videos.
You are not a piano teacher, you are an angel send down by the Music Gods. Keep up the good work!
Great lesson! Thank you so much!
You, ma'am, are the most enthusiastic teacher EVER!!
i WISH i found you sooner!!! I would have loved learning music!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Aw, thank you so much! It's never too late to learn ✨
I am 65 and have started teaching myself how to play the piano. I loved your way of explaining how to read notes. Thanks
I love this method too. I also find younger students have fun with acronyms because the animal names are fun. For example Every Good Bird Deserves Food they remember for Treble lines since birds fly high like the high notes etc.
Every Good Boy Does Fine...
That's what I learned!
@@JJ_TheGreat I learned it that way too in elementary school. Once I became a teacher i got more creative with which ones I used. For example, an older adult student 40+ will usually get a kick out of Even George Bush Drives Fast...etc
When i learned to memorize the notes on the lines. My teacher taught me "Every Good Boy Does Fine, and the notes between the lines spell F A C E.
But this is a great lesson, explained very clearly, better than my teacher did
I’ve always been struggling with the bass notes and it slowed down my learning so much. I tried it out after watching this video and oh boy I can read the notes so much faster now!! Thank you 🙌
I never learned this thing but now at 17 i want to be a singer and a rapper so i just came across this and its so incredible im loving this I'll definitely work hard on this❤
This is the method I’ve been using for years with my students ❗️Wish that’s how it was taught when I was studying piano/music🎵🎶. 🎹😊 Great video❗️
Thank you for watching our content!🙂
I took piano lessons for 8ish years as a kid and got very good..the thing is, I had the gift of playing by ear so I never cared to focus on reading sheet music. So now 10 years after not touching a piano, I still have the hands for it but the ability to just hear something a time or 2 and play it has left me. So now learning to read music actually feels important and videos like this help. Thank you!
I have taught this way for years, and you're absolutely right, it's how music was meant to be read and how music reading SHOULD be taught. And in fact, it SHOULD be quite easy. It's how I've always thought about reading music, and it has worked perfectly for me.
That being said, the number of times I have to explain and re-explain these concepts makes me seriously doubt most of humanity's intelligence. You don't know how many people would genuinely be confused by something like 6:28, and how many times I have to prompt people, "If it comes back to the same place again, IT'S THE SAME NOTE AGAIN." You'd think that wouldn't even have to be explained (you certainly didn't spend much time in on it in this video)! There are some people that seem literally unable to mentally distinguish between "line" and "space" notes even if they can always tell you verbally which one it is.
I think I'm going to go bang my head against a wall.
(Sorry, just needed to vent, great video lol)
this is so funny
And some children into the third grade can't tell the difference between their left and right hands. Even after many hints, reminders, and memory aids. As a piano teacher myself I can't tell you how frustrating this is with some students. "Ok, Paul, now use the Other right hand." 😉
I took piano lessons in my late 20's for 2 years-was taught by acronyms. My brain got stuck on the acronyms for the line and space notes and could not read the music just by the notes. I did not stick with the piano out of frustration. Well, 20 years later and I am starting again with piano. I found this video and the way you are teaching this is so simple! It makes sense-start with C then count alphabet up or down not separating the lines and spaces into two groupings. Thank you!
All those music classes in school and never once were we taught the upper lines were for the right hand and the lower lines were for the left hand...
I have never heard intervals explained so simply. Bravo.
This is such a great channel. Thank you so much for all you do!
Thank you for your support!😀
I took piano as a child for 6 years. The acronyms I think is what confused me so much and kept me from learning to read music simply. It just never clicked and I walked away from it. This just helped me understand it better!! ❤
Same with me. I've been afraid of music that requires reading for so long. I can't wait to practice this!
This is amazing!! I haven't played since I was 9 (decades ago) and this was absolutely fantastic. I feel like I learned more today than I did in all the lessons I attended as a child.
I learned the acronyms (completely forgot though) and this was far easier than what I remember learning as a child.
Thank you. I'm so excited to learn to play piano. God bless for sharing your gift with us.
Thank you
, I had never learned to read music, I'm 53 years old and you gave me a good push to start learning to play the piano
What's the hype then? In the end we need to get the notes into our backbone anyway - like we do when we apply the alphabet to our reading skill. If the cows etc help you initially that's OK as well.
This gorgeous pixie made me SUBSCRIBE! Her energy, facial expressions, clarity of voice and content is superb. And the DIMPLE!!!
I'm about to be 79 years of age, and have been playing musical instruments, by ear (but mostly fingers) since I was a teenager, starting with a Gibson Les Paul electric guitar. I've accumulated and have had fun playing harmonicas ("Blues harp"), Pennywhistles/tinwhistles, native American flutes, mandolin, fiddle (a violin when wearing shoes), and keyboard.
Hopefully this pixie will teach my left hand how to play nicely with my right hand, on the keyboard - I only play melody, with my right hand. My left hand doesn't know what to do and how to integrate with my right hand.
WHY DIDN'T MY TEACHER TOLD ME ALL THIS,20 YEARS LATE IM FINDING THIS😭😭😭
Brilliantly presented. Thank you. Used to play classical piano as an elementary school kid and was proficient with reading notes, but my old brain isn't quite coping with them now. This will help immensely.
Never heard of the acronyms. Always thought your way is the standard way... Like we're taught in Europe hahaha.
I'm 56 years old and just got my first 61 keys keyboard and am overwhelmed but feel like this is doable. Thank you!
Ehm, thanks Captain Obvious. I guess this is the biggest waste of bits and bytes on the youtube servers. Sorry, who does not know what you told here? And why did it take 8 minutes?
Love this. It's the way I've been teaching note-reading for years, even in beginning band. Teach the grand staff. Then the 'landmarks' as you see fit.
Since my childhood days i always wish learning to play the piano, now i'm 55 and i still wished i still can, i have gone over your videos and my hope was still high, i believe i will learn so much from you and my wish will come true, it's never too late 🥰😍😍i have ordered a portable piano to begin with i'm really so excited and you have given me much of an inspiration to continue to learn 😍
I understand guitar. But could never read the notes in music. They never explained anything about the notes in grade school. You have cleared this up for me finally. You should also teach music to new students. You’re a wizard. Seems in school they assume they point to a note and they think ok so now you know the whole system and how it works. Your are my super hero of music now. Thank you so much😊.
This is great. I'm getting started with piano and I could probably watch hundreds of things likes this to follow along with and practice.
This is the first video I've watched of yours and I got the feeling that you're probably a great singer, judging by the quality of your voice.
Thank you, this was really helpful.
I'm 62, bought a Baldwin piano back in 2016 and have only tinkered with it, no lessons but just trying it out.
Of course, it felt very difficult and I haven't done anything serious with it since.
As a kid I played trumpet but have long since forgotten how to read sheet music and this is a great first lesson for me.
I love what piano can do and really want to put in some time with lessons like yours and others.
I'll be watching a bunch of your videos and putting these exercises into practice.
There may be hope for me yet!!
My grandmother was a piano player, woudl say I had piano hands, she never read music. Never thought I never could till I saw your video. Thank You for the amazin education. Im pumped to learn how to read music! 🤯🖐🖐💪
im a flute player and i have started 6 months ago.. you made this video 5 months ago, ngl i kinda figured these stuff out a month after studying flute. ive grown so much since then! wish ive seen this video sooner :')
Really you explained it making it so easy. Thank you madam. I am 63 now n learning.
Thank you for this very intuitive and brilliant tutorial - my 10 year old saw your video today and is inspiring her to resume her piano lessons after a 2 yrs cold spell playing piano. You are an awesome teacher ❤
I came here so overwhelmed, just wanting to be able to play whole me and my son sing at church and I was instantly relieved! Thank you so mush, this was such a break down!
This is Wonderful Madam, First of all my Grateful Thanks. You teach us so Fascinatingly. I'm over 50, and play by the ear. This is my First Piano lesson, thank God that met you such a Great Charming, very Polite💫🙏 music teacher, God bless you, All the Best !
I'm glad the world has changed and there's programs like this and music teachers like you. You must really be helpful to students who have dyslexia, back in the 1970s we were told we're just stupid.
I've been putting it off , learning to play my keyboard just because I was so worried that I would struggle to read music. Now I can't wait to get started. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this. I had the hardest time trying to understand sight reading and then I watched this and I can't believe after being a musician for 20+ years that could not read music at all and I am now just starting, but this is so much easier than FACE and Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge and all of that nonsense.
For the bass clef, it is not the circle at the back, but rather the 2 dots. Both clefs were written as the letter itself. Their modern standardization comes from an adaptation of those early letters to make it more universal. The dots on the bass clef help to limit the confusion of having the 2 lines of F around a line on the staff. As a lutenist, I play and read lots of early music, and as an academic, I care about finding the earliest editions of music to work from that I can.
All that said... Yes, we should absolutely begin instruction with an understanding of the musical alphabet and of what clefs do.
G for the G cleff and F for the f cleff they are even called sometimes by these namea in German.
Violin Cleff and Bass Cleff.
The secret in reading is practice. Just like normal reading. First single letters - single notes than. The melodies, accords, harmonies.
That's why instrument lessons in music schools should be accompanied by theory lessons with practice to how to read notes and write notes.
for the longest time i was told that it was egbdf face and i was never taught the bass clef. once i reached high school, i took a piano class and that’s when i realized it was the alphabet. from then on it was just memorization. this was actually the greatest thing i ever learned thank you
I had no interest in learning piano....until now! Wow, you have made this so simple and fun! What a great technique of teaching! Your energy is contagious as well!
The best tutorial ever on reading notes. The way you express and explain is the most needed quality of a tutor.
Reading music has always been one of those things I had a hard time with since I'm dyslexic but putting it in these terms and thinking about it in the since that all the notes can be references to other notes mathematically (especially with music theory) instead of with the whole letter memorization thing has helped me a lot. It's actually exactly how I do math in my head. I use specific numbers as references to how far away other numbers are. This video paired with Andrew Huang's 30 minute music theory video here on TH-cam really helped me be able to make sense of the staff. Amazing tips as always!
Yes, this is the way to do it. I’ve been teaching for 30 years, and I have always found that intervals and landmark notes are the way to go. I also learned the acronyms as a child, and sometimes I still bring them up, but only if nothing else is working! I also teach intervals in groups of odds (3,5,7) and evens(2,4,6). There are more patterns developed from that.
I've been playing the piano since I was 8 years old, and I can widow any song, no problem, but I can't read notes.
I know how to play chords, bass lines, progression, and a little runs, but that's it. I am also a singer, and I can pitch match no problem.
Later on in life, I joined my church choir. Everybody is reading notes, even those who are a lot older than me and, of course, those who are younger than me.
I can pitch match any note and will just memorize it, but in my opinion, reading notes and familiarizing the song through a music sheet is a lot more convenient.
Now I regret I never studied reading notes.
Thanks to your video, I am learning the fundamentals. Looking forward to learning more!
I am a piano teacher, and detest acronyms - my favourite 'landmark notes' are all the C's - high C and low C, being mirror images of each other, and then high-high C, and low-low C being mirror images of each other. Your method is excellent, and you expalin it simply and clearly, with enthusiasm. Well done!
Idk if you were manic but you explained everything just perfect 👍🏾 good job
My mom was a professional pianist and occasionally taught piano. I could never understand what the heck those lines and dots meant. So I never learned to play the the piano. I have a great ear. I figured someone had to be the audience. This is the first thing about musical notation that has ever made any sense to me in 70 years.
This was the best explaination I have every seen or heard. I have taught myself to play on keyboard by A-B-C-D-E-F-G using computers... gave up on notes because it all looked so tedious and complex... now you removed that from my brain!
THANKS A LOT!!!! Instant subscriber to your channel now!
I just staeted piano from scratch. I suffred a stroke and doctor recommended tto learn something new, so to me is about being normal again as far as mwmory, vision and reactio. Love yout videos
I stopped playing when I was 2 1/2 and now I'm 183 and this is the best explanation for music I've ever seen
Wasn't convinced until the interval part. That is actually so good for both music theory understanding and reading notes