We go back to basics and make a pitch for reading music. Here's the first part of a new series ...

When you learn to read music, it’s much like learning to read a book. While the notes on the stave go up and down to indicate ...

The notes that are assigned to the treble and bass clefs are different, so it's vital to take note of the clef sign as you start reading. The treble clef. When learning clef note names, it can ...

Or, as with my hand-cranked music player, you may have to read just enough of the music yourself to convert musical notes to frequencies for something like a 555 timer chip. We’ll dive into both ...

Piano basics: the black notes - what are they for and how do you use them? Jason Isbell has some advice for any young player who has just bought their first acoustic guitar; It also doesn’t tell you ...

Not a Note. You don’t need to be able to read sheet music to be a musical genius. It can’t hurt, but if the long list of influential musicians who couldn’t read a note of music is anything ...

This article originally appeared on The Philadelphia Tribune. Singing songs, reading music notes, and playing an instrument are just some of the things that students at the George W. Nebinger School ...

Sight-reading is the ability to play sheet music on an instrument with little or no preparation. Any piano player who practices sight-reading for thousands of hours will get pretty good at it, ...

Music Ability Helps Reading. By . Ann Lukits. ... but little is known about the effects of reading musical notes on the brain's circuitry as it relates to reading, researchers said.

Reading the stave/staff and understanding pitch. You can think of music notation as being a little bit like an X/Y graph; from left to right, you are provided with information that dictates rhythm.