How to Read Sheet Music for Piano 1

Welcome to piano lesson number four.

To those of you who just kind of stumble over this, you should probably go back to lesson one and go from that because-kind of on top of each other.

I designed this song to be for the beginner in piano. That’s my idea on what are they doing.

As you can see I got a haircut. I turned 20 in the weekend and I just decided to have a hair cut too. Enough change on a weekend, huh? I had a pretty rough weekend, I’m kind of tired but I decided to do this on you for to those of you have been writing for the potential to come out.

So today, we are going to look at how to read sheet music. Don’t kind of feel bad on me or anything. It’s pretty easy. I’ll only be going to try you how you can look out the sheet music and we know what note corresponds to the piano.

I’m not going to get to the like of actual notes and what’s like beats and stuffs like that. I’m just going to show you note name on the sheet music so you can look at it like “that note is this note on the piano”. That way you are going to “Huh? Okay so do you have something like this?” (Piano playing)

No, you don’t like to do that.

I kind of draft some examples because I don’t want to waste time.

I’ll just show you what the treble clef is.

The treble clef is the right hand. When you see this mark right here, it’s kind of like a squiggly and symbol I guess. It looks like different in that one. I play that much.

So this is the treble clef, that means right hand and that’s higher on the piano because your right hand is higher.

To draw a treble clef, you are going to do kind of like a little squiggly dot thing here and then you’ll notice these five lines up here. One, two, three, four, five. So you draw the squiggly dot thing, do a little kind of half circle and then you come all the way up. And then you get a loop around and then you going to come out to about here on the first line, then by the second line you should be crossing it.

From there on, you are just kind of wave your way down until the last line and then come around above here. Then just drop. You will end on this second top line or second bottom, whatever. That’s your right hand.

I’ll show you how this corresponds after. I’m just showing you treble clef and bass clef first.

So that is treble clef-right hand. It’s simple. I hoped so. Okay.

Bass clef is left hand because we don’t have a middle hand coming out from our belly. When that happens I’m sure they’ll going to invent another clef for that. But so far that won’t happen.

Bass clef looks like another little squiggly dot thing here and then instead of all this going everywhere, we’ll just kind of go wavy so you travel a little squiggly dot, come up to the first line and then just let it slide down.

Then, you’ll going to have a dot here, dot here and your done. So that is one line, two lines, three line, four line, five line-same as the top. That’s your treble clef and bass clef, right hand and left hand.

Now, it gets more complicated. Don’t runaway from here anything now. This is how it’s all going to look.

Let us start with middle C. You remember middle C on the keyboard? Well, we have one for the written style as well.

So, the middle C is going to be between-this is the treble clef-I kind of drew that in a hurry so it’s kind of grapy, whatever- and then, bass clef down here. So treble clef-bass clef.

So see this little thing here? It’s in a join so this is called the grand staff. So when you see the little thing joining this two together, it means it’s the grand staff. Take hand off like go down. So the middle C here is shared by both of them. It’s kind of like, “Hey! I’m the arbitrator between you two” or something like that.

Anyway, we have middle C here. The way this works is-a line is an automatic key on the piano. When you go up one, now you are going to a space. So you’ve got a line here, and then you’re going to go to the space, and then if you go up to the E, you are on the next line. Then you go up to the F, you’re on the space. You go up to a G, you’re on a line. It basically like when you ever wanted in a football practice-it’s like when you have all these tires raised all apart. It’s like you are going up. It’s C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C-D-E-F and it just goes all the way up there. Even here.

I have an aim actually. This is the last base on so G-A-B-C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C-D-E and so on and so forth. So you’ll be probably like “Oh my Go! how am I going to remember all of that”.

You can remember these very simple steps.
For every space notes on the treble clef, it spells out the word FACE. If you want to remember all of these four, you just remember FACE. You can remember that by your faces looking at the music.

Now, you are probably like “Okay, so good I have these spaces done but what about the line. It looks like its more of them”. Well--




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