How to Read Music – Piano-ology

Music Notation: Dynamic Markings

Dynamics (how loudly or softly something is played) is a huge component of the expressive power of music… Advertisements

Articulations are essential ingredients of any artistic musical interpretation…

The Time Signature, written immediately after the key signature, is a pattern of numbers that looks like a fraction that

The Key Signature is a pattern of sharps or flats (or none at all) written at the very beginning of

Commonly-used note and rest durations for your information…

Let’s explore the way accidentals work by applying them to the note G above middle C…

The notes are named by using a symbols called clefs and a simple pattern of horizontal lines and spaces as

The Grand Staff consists of an upper staff and a lower staff…

Piano music is usually written using something called The Grand Staff…

Let’s explore the variety of ways that an expert musician might perceive and conceive of the music…