Repeat Signs: How to Read Sheet Music

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Katie and I’m here on behalf of expertvillage.com to talk with you about repeat signs. You want to be aware of signs like this…these are repeat signs and that tells you that there is going to be a section of a piece that’s going to be repeated. Now if you start at the beginning of the piece here is the first repeat sign, you don’t worry about it you keep on playing, keep on playing, keep on playing and now as you’re coming along here you’re going to come to the second repeat sign, the second repeat sign tells you to go back to the first repeat and so this section is repeated again. Now often times music will denote a first ending and a second ending so when you’re coming through the second time because you’ve already played the first ending this time you would skip right to the second ending and that’s how you would end the piece and that’s all you need to know about repeat signs."