Marking the Score: How to Read Sheet Music

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Katie and I’m here on behalf of expertvillage.com to show you how to mark up your music. One tool that every musician should have is a pencil, it’s important to add reminders to yourself in a piece of music or to emphasize important parts that your eye might miss on a tone. Here for example we have a piece that begins in three A-time, in the third of a way through the time signature changes to four eight, if I were reading this piece of music I would circle the change in time signature so that I’m more likely to be aware of it when it comes. If you were working on a piece for a long period of time you might add many different markings that only have meaning for you or reminders to yourself, here for example is a piece of music that I’ve marked up but it gives me reminders that I need and that I can recognize, that’s all you need to know about marking up your music."