Dynamics (how loudly or softly something is played) is a huge component of the expressive power of music…
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Category: How to Read Music
Music Notation: Articulations
Articulations are essential ingredients of any artistic musical interpretation…
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Music Notation: Time Signatures
The Time Signature, written immediately after the key signature, is a pattern of numbers that looks like a fraction that tells you two things…
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How to Read Music: Key Signatures
The Key Signature is a pattern of sharps or flats (or none at all) written at the very beginning of a piece of music, immediately after the clef…
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Music Notation: Note & Rest Durations
Commonly-used note and rest durations for your information…
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Music Notation: Accidentals (Sharps, Flats, & Naturals)
Let’s explore the way accidentals work by applying them to the note G above middle C…
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Music Notation: Lines & Spaces
The notes are named by using a symbols called clefs and a simple pattern of horizontal lines and spaces as follows…
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Music Notation: Clefs (G-Clef & F-Clef)
The Grand Staff consists of an upper staff and a lower staff…
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Music Notation: The Grand Staff
Piano music is usually written using something called The Grand Staff…
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