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How to Read Clefs in Music
How to Read Time Signatures in Music
How to Read Key Signatures in Sheet Music
How to Read Tempo Markings in Sheet Music
How to Read Mood Markings on Sheet Music
How to Read Accidentals in Sheet Music
How to Read Rests in Sheet Music
Dynamic Markings: How to Read Sheet Music
How to Read Key Changes in Sheet Music
Repeat Signs: How to Read Sheet Music
Pick-Up Notes: How to Read Sheet Music
Phrasing: How to Read Sheet Music
Subdividing & Beats: How to Read Sheet Music
Reading Ahead: How to Read Sheet Music
Marking the Score: How to Read Sheet Music
Reading piano sheet music is difficult at first but then becomes easier with practice. Learn some great ba… More
Reading piano sheet music is difficult at first but then becomes easier with practice. Learn some great ba… More
Reading music is like picking up on an intuitive language. Skilled music readers (or "sight readers&q… More
Reading piano sheet music symbols is difficult at first but then becomes easier with practice. There are m… More
Reading piano sheet music is difficult at first but then becomes easier with practice. Learn some great ba… More
Reading sharps and flats on piano sheet music is difficult at first but then becomes easier with practice.… More
In this free instructional video series, our expert musician will show you how to read sheet music. Learn … More
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Summary: Reading rests or silences in sheet music is just as important as being aware of the notes you are playing. Learn how to read the rests in sheet music with guidance from an experienced musician in this free video on reading sheet music.
Katie Liesener has played French horn for 15 years, performing primarily in the central Illinois area. She has played with Opera Illinois, the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra, and...read more
" Hi! I’m Katie and I’m here on behalf of expertvillage.com to remind you to keep an eye out for rests. Just as it’s important to be aware of the notes that you are playing it is just as important to be aware of the silences or the rests. Younger or beginning musicians are often tempted to simple read the notes and then jump ahead to the next note but these rests are important because they account for the rest of the time in the measure and if you don’t acknowledge them and count them then you would start the next measure too soon. Here for example we see a piece that is in six eight time, so the eighth note gets the beat and there are six beats in the measure, here a dotted quarter would count for three beats one, two, three, here we have a full rest, a quarter rest excuse me four, five and eighth rest sixth and now all six beats in a measure are accounted for. When playing with an ensemble or some other group it is important to be aware of large spaces of rests, here this twelve means that there are twelve measures of rest and it’s the musicians responsibility to count all twelve measures so that he or she does not come in too early. So here for example the piece is in two four time, you would count out twelve measures of two beats each or twenty four beats, two more, another one, another and then the eighth note into the next measure, that’s all you need to know about rests."
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aura738 said
on 8/2/2008 Very good and more easy to understand, because you can watch the video many times. Thank you
violinjen said
on 8/2/2008 Thanks again, great info in a very clear way!