Why Learn to Read Music?

Why do you think it's important to Learn to Read Music?

Knowing How to Read Musical Notes and Sheet Music enables a musician to advance at a pace that would be impossible if he or she didn't know how to read music.

You're free to practice new and different pieces of sheet music that you've not heard or played before, and that's especially important for musicians who have been singing or playing for a while because it's easy to get bored.

When you Learn to Read Music you're free to experience music they way it was intended to be -- it becomes again about freedom and creativity.

In your opinion why should someone Learn to Read Music? (Or not learn?)

Oh and by the way, you should Learn How to Read Music now!

Notes, Rests and Semibreves - How to Read Music

How to Read Music Time Signature. Play the notes and rests in relation to the time signature. Now that you know which lines and spaces correspond to which notes (thanks to the clef), you can read the piece from left to right. The symbols will either represent notes or rests. Rests indicate silence, so they do not designate any pitch; they are typically placed in the same position on the staff. A variety of symbols are used to indicate the duration of a note or rest relative to other notes or rests.Notes:Rests:

A whole note or semibreve appears as a "circle" on the staff in a measure and is worth 4 beats in common time. A whole note is the base unit to which all the other fractional notes are related.

I know, I know. Notes and semibreves and rests, oh my!

But fortunately, you can still Learn How to Read Music in just 7 Days.

How to Read Music - the Bass Clef

I was reading on Wikipedia and howtodothings.com the other day about reading the bass cleff

It's always interesting to see the advice that people come up with. It always seems to be just a collection of the same things repeated over and over again. For example, I read...

"The bass clef is used for the bass and baritone voices and lower instruments such as the tuba, trombone, and sousaphone. The bass clef was created because the notes for these lower instruments would be so low beneath the Treble Clef staff it would be very hard to write music that was easy for players to read. The bass clef notes can be memorized by: Lines -Good Boys Do Fine Always Spaces - All Cows Eat Grass"

I don't know about you, but I've tried the memorize lines and spaces before and it just doesn't seem work for me. My brain doesn't function that way. I am always left counting lines and spaces instead of actually reading music...

But anyways, There are a few good answers out there and I'll share what I've learned in my next post. In the mean time, do some research on wikihow and spend some time on this site if you really want to Learn how to Read the Bass Clef