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How to Play Piano: The Basics

#5 Music Theory: Reading sheet music

From our libraryOriginally published July 23, 2021Video resource

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← Back to how to play piano: the basics

Read the direction of a phrase

Alongside naming individual notes, look at whether a melody rises, falls, repeats, or skips. That shape helps you follow the phrase. Check the clef and key signature before assigning letter names to notes.

Take two measures from your current piece and mark the repeated notes before you play them.

In this collection

How to Play Piano: The Basics, Piano Lesson #1
How to play piano: Lesson #2
How to play piano: Lesson #3
#4 Music theory: Note values and time signatures
#5 Music Theory: Reading sheet music
#6 Music theory: Interval Music theory
#7 Grand Piano Tutorial; The Piano and how it works
#8 Minor Scales: natural minor, harmonic minor, melodic minor
#9 Circle of fifths tutorial; How to draw a circle of fifths (circle of keys)
#10 How to Play Piano: learn chromatic, pentatonic scales applied to piano
#11 How to learn a new song for any piano, guitar, bass or drum set
#12 Learn how to play chords fast: Chromatic Chords
#13 How to Transpose Music: Learn Transposition
#14 Beats and Time Signatures: Understanding basic rhythm and beats
#15 Music Theory: Scale degrees, Tonic & Dominate
#16 Learn to Recognize Intervals by Sight and Sound of Pitch
#17 Pianist Posture: Proper posture at the piano; RELAX yourself
#18 Relax Your Mind, Learn to Play the Piano EASY Fluid and Relaxed
#19 How to Sight read: Sight read tips and tricks
#20 Rhythm & Clapping: More Advanced Rhythm, Beats & Clapping

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