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Re: Any thoughts on this?

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-09-29 03:07

I made up some flash cards for students with the idea being that they would just learn the position of the notes by rote. Start off though getting some key positions down: The note right in the middle of the staff (third line) is B; the note sitting on the staff is G; the note which is on the first ledger line below the staff is C.

Once you have anchors, you can just figure other notes out from there. But the rote memorization is important to move forward. From there the next thing I'd suggest is to know (by rote memorization) the notes of each triad. For example: a C triad is comprised of C-E-G; a G triad is G-B-D (and triads are just stacked notes which is line-to-line-to-line or space-to-space-to space).

It takes some work (like learning your times tables) but trust me (as someone who had this handicap for years) it REALLY holds you back if you can't read music.

That said: listening CAN NOT be overrated so you may be much better than you think!

..........Paul Aviles

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