Read & Write Music Intervals: Part 1

Video Transcript

"Alright now we are going to show you how to read and write on some sheet music in the key of E flat. So we will start with this nice piece of blank paper. First you have your two basic clefts; your treble cleft and your basic cleft, so we will start here. There's our treble cleft and E flat is this very first line. Now each line and space is a note in the scale so the notes in between the scale, I notated was a flat or a sharp. Here's your sharp symbol. Now to make it easier on you, what they do is they put the treble cleft there and they put the three flats already in. See that, E flat, E flat and A flat. So now when we go through and play your scale, you will know that when you get to an A flat, B flat or E flat, it is going to be flat. So there are your 7 notes; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. So if you go back in the video and look in the pattern, you can see those 7 notes and now you can go see them on a piece of paper. "