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| Author | Topic: Reading notes, half, ect. |
Anonymous
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| posted: 3/21/2006 at 5:22:05 PM ET
I was wondering if anyone could help me. I am very new to playing music, and I just bought a keyboard, and I would like to be able to read music. I found this web site that tells you about the notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, and sixteenth notes. I'm not sure what different sound they are supposed to make, or how you play them differently. If anyone would help me, I would really appreciate it. Thanks, Amy.
|  imnidiot
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3/28/2005 | posted: 3/21/2006 at 7:17:34 PM ET
Try www.teoria.com. There is a music tutorial which explains note values and timing.
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| Anonymous
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| posted: 3/22/2006 at 3:45:55 PM ET
Thank you, it did help some, but some of it is too confusing. I am, as I said, really new to this, and I don't understand a lot of the terms. I ordered a book, but I want to work on stuff before it comes in. Any thing with layman terms would be appreciated. Thanks again, Amy.
| imnidiot
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3/28/2005 | posted: 3/22/2006 at 6:25:23 PM ET
There really aren't "laymans terms" per say in music, you have to learn the terminology as written.
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| suzyq
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11/18/2004 | posted: 3/22/2006 at 9:18:35 PM ET
You might want to see how this works for you.
Before I started formal piano lessons, I bought a book by Amy Appleby - "You Can Read Music", take a look and see what you think. It's pretty good.
There is a picture of the piano keyboard with the location of the notes and their letters on the keys, it's on page 12 you'll see what I mean when you see it. The best thing is that you can take it to the piano or keyboard and begin to teach yourself.
If you are near a library you might find this book or one like it and xerox a copy of the page(s) that interest you.
A good forum to join is Piano World - www.pianoworld.com - they have an adult beginners forum. You'll find it's a friendly group with lots of great advice.
Hope this helps a little. Let us know and good luck. 
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