How to Read Music: For Beginners - A Simple and Effective Guide to Understanding and Reading Music with Ease (Essential Learning Tools for Musicians) - Softcover

Carter, Nicolas

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798602912364

Publisher: Independently published, 2020

Synopsis

Music Reading Made Simple - The Best Starting Point for Anyone Who Wishes to Learn How to Read and Write Down Music

* A Successor and a Sibling to the Best-Selling Book: Music Theory - From Absolute Beginner to Expert *

• Bars, notes, clefs, staves, time signatures, common notation, musical symbols… Have you ever wanted to learn how to read music and understand all these terms, but it seemed too difficult and not worth the effort?
• Have you tried searching for information in books or online only to find yourself more confused by the complexity of music theory and traditional notation?
• Do you think that being able to read music and sightreading is only reserved for professional musicians who've had expensive traditional education?
• Do you want to be able to easily learn how to read sheet music and have a solid understanding of how music is written?
• Do you want to advance your skills as a musician?

This in-depth book is the solution you've been looking for. This is a straightforward and concise guide meant to show that learning this valuable and impressive skill can be made simple, easy and fun, for any musician, on any instrument, at any time. It is meant to show that there is a simple process to learning anything, and music reading is no exception. You don’t have to attend music schools or expensive private classes and courses; anyone can learn how to read music by being self-taught.

This book is going to help you easily understand music notation and how it relates to music theory. Along with the provided images, sheet music scores and music reading exercises, it will help you to build a proper foundation of knowledge, understanding, and skill; a foundation that will help you move forward as a musician. You will reach a level of proficiency from where you can confidently look at the music sheet, quickly interpret what's going on, and play it on your instrument.

Here’s a sneak peak of what you’ll get:

• A detailed overview of a typical musical staff and its elements.
• A detailed explanation on frequency ranges, clefs and their relation to note pitches.
• Everything you need to know about key signatures and how to interpret them.
• A thorough understanding of the circle of fifths.
• Best step-by-step approach to reading the notes and chords quickly.
• Solfege explanation.
• A complete guide on how to read rhythms, how beat is divided, note durations, rests, ties, dotted notes, polyrhythms and more.
• Fundamental rhythmic blocks, how they're written and how to use them to create rhythm patterns.
• How dynamics, articulation and extended techniques are notated.
• Cool exercises that will help you to understand notation, practice your new skills and start sightreading!

- And much, much more...
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About this title

About the Author

Nicolas is an experienced guitar player and the best-selling author of a range of books covering the topic of music and playing guitar. He is most well-known for his insightful and uniquely presented studies of music theory, covered in the books: Music Theory - From Absolute Beginner to Expert, and How to Read Music for Beginners. Together, his books have helped over 100 000 people worldwide to understand and use music theory, and supported them on their music playing journeys.

Privately, Nicolas is a swimming coach, cyclist enthusiast and holds a degree in ecology. His diverse interests do not detract him from exploring his deep passion, which is playing music and understanding and distilling complex subjects such as music theory and how music works. As a young guitar player he became very interested in learning about how music and sound work. This led him to discovering music theory, which he spent years studying and has since taught to many other musicians. He was inspired to start creating books because he saw a need for a resource that explains music theory and how music works in an interesting way, accessible to any musician. He wanted to create books that will be an indispensable value and a tremendous resource to all musicians. He loves animals and has two dogs and a cat.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798602912364
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124