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YOUR RED DOTS INDICATING SPOKEN PIANO NOTES :GBDFACE do not correspond to YOUR SPOKEN correct piano notes - HOW MISLEADING FOR ANY LEARNER! I’D say fix this or wipe the website, because it’s teaching WRONG to a learner.
Lifelong pianist of some accomplishment, strong ear musician/improviser, decent reader…barely passable sight reader. 5 min. in, feel like I’m being given the keys to the kingdom. Your quiet clarity is powerful-a great teacher!
I think that a third skill involved is having a knowledge of the keyboard topography in your hands so you don't have to look down to play. Many people can read notes and intervals on page but struggle with sightreading because they don't trust or know the keyboard well enough to not look down.
That’s a great point, Rob, thanks. I address that in this video but it would have been a good addition here too: ruclips.net/video/uWCV2NMc9y8/видео.html
The course I've been using for a year makes sure you have what you so helpfully call 'keyboard topography' with hundreds of hours of improvising, without looking down, in 24 keys before a simplified notation gets us started in thinking in vertical dots. Then, when we start on the staff, we're writing mentally as we improvise. Kind of like writing in English before learning shorthand. The mnemonic in this video is helpful, but as you say, Rob, in order to play without looking up and down constantly, you have to know the keyboard very well via proprioception.
That sounds like an interesting course, can I ask you for the name of it? I also get my students to improvise on a few notes at a time to build awareness of where they are, but that sounds like it really takes it to a new level! 😃
@@LeCheileMusic It's Phil Best's Play Piano Fluently. He has ingeniously designed materials for guiding our hands to know where everything is. And, as you mention in the video linked under Rob's reply, rhythm is the foundation. He makes it simple, but as he always says, it isn't easy. And you don't get to play pieces you like from sheet music while you're working on this. I'd been using Alfred's All-in-One for two years and was just not satisfied with laboriously decoding the page, when I googled Play Piano Fluently and found the course. It's only meant for adults. But any level.
Thank you!! Two more things that have helped me: 1. The "ACE" method. The bottom three spaces on the bass clef are ACE. The top three spaces on the treble clef are ACE. And the line between the clefs are ACE. (That C is the Middle C). They make a nice, symmetrical pattern on the clefs. (I am a visual person, so I can imagine them these without calculating them.) Then you can quickly deduce the notes around them. 2. For intervals: if both notes are on the same thing, meaning both are on a space or a line, then you know the interval is an odd number: a 3rd, a 5th, a 7th. If the interval notes are on different things, for example, one is on a line and one is on a space, then you know the interval is an even number: a 2nd, a 4th, a 6th, or an octave. I know you said this, but this is just a little more clarification. Thank you very much for this very helpful tutorial.
@@LeCheileMusic still to watch the video but i use ACE-G for bass spaces. Simplifies the time than using the mnemonic all cows eat grass. Then i use ACE-G for the upper treble ledger lines. And FACE for the lower bass ledger lines. I can remember most notes now all the way down to the lowest bass note to the highest treble. For ledger spaces. I always keep the adjacent notes separate. Trebles upper G, and the Bass’ lower F. And then remember that the spaces are sort of mirrored in comparison. So the treble ledger spaces are B,D,F,A and the lower bass ledgers are D,B,G,E. Just remember one starts with B and the other stars D. When i was first learning my ledger spaces, i just remembered that the treble started with B then D. And bass was D then B. Then when i got a bit better i recognised that the ledger lines are only an octave in range. So the first ledger space for the bass is F and the last ledger Line is F. I had to use an app to get the gist of it. Like it would be calling cards and you would press the note on a keyboard. Done it to the point where it felt as instinctive as reading words. Now im using a sight reading book called sight reading and harmony by bach scholar. I really want to improve my sight reading the most. Cause it makes learning new peices so mich easier, then next ill try and improve on recognising chords and chord progressions.
I'm a piano teacher and I teach my students the exact same thing. Once you can see intervals and chords shapes piano can be just as easy as it is to read words. Sight reading is a great skill to have. Awesome video!
I started to learn the piano over 40 years ago. My ear was good, my music reading was truly awful. I staggered on for a decade or so, murdering Joplin, Chopin, Debussy and many more, until I could get no further with muscle memory and playing by ear alone. I’ve just chanced on this absolute gem of a tutorial. I WISH someone had explained it to me like this….. I’m going to have another go! Thank you so much.
I love your videos. Probably something you already know but I just realized to help identify notes not on the staff are the threes ACE’s. Above the treble staff first three spaces from bottom to top are A C E. Below the bass staff the three spaces are A C E. And between the staffs are on lines are A C (middle C) and E. Helps me quickly identify those notes not on the staff lines. Thank you so much.
Wow! Every once in a while you find a gem on RUclips. This is definitely a gem. Thanks so much. My sight reading is already improving. Why didn’t I know this before. How lucky are your students to have you as a teacher. Wish I’d started learning with you. Thanks so much for sharing. I really am impressed.
Suggestions for fellow viewers: Schumann’s Album for the Young has several great pieces for sight reading practice. Some nice ones to start with: nos. 1, 3 & 5 (all C maj), Chorale. All simple, but highly musical… & beautiful. Another great piece to sight read is Bach’s famous Prelude in C-you get a lot of musical “bang for your buck” because essentially every measure in the piece is repeated. And while you were playing the repetition, you can read ahead to the next measure. It is also heartbreakingly beautiful music.
This is sooo much easier than how I was taught. I would have actually practiced and not been tortured waiting to just go play football outside. Thanks for taking what seemed so hard and making it easy.
Wow! I played piano for a few years before eventually losing interest due to not being able to read music very well. I was a self taught "every good boy does fine, all cows eat grass" kinda guy and even tried rote memorization of the notes. I spent countless hours slowly deciphering and memorizing some great songs but my inability to read faster really cut down on my enjoyment and what I could play. So I recently decided, I'm taking up piano again but this time I'm doing whatever it takes to become a "good" site reader. I stumbled across your video a couple days ago and have to say - I am officially a GBDFACE convert LOL! Two days of using your tricks has made me feel like I've supercharged my site reading quest! Thank you! 😃
Thank you! I have been struggling with sight reading for years, and this is genius! Makes me see so much more clearly without stopping every two seconds to figure out the note on the page!
Great video and it makes reading a lot easier. Other few things which should be mentioned is: 1) take a note of which scale you in by looking at the key markers at the beginning of the 1st bar, and to make sure it is not a minor scale, check for frequently sharps and flatted notes. 2) scan also through the music to look for scale changes (modulations) and try to remember from and to scales the music goes. It often modulates back to beginning scale. 3) know how to play ALL the scales, majors, minors and chromatics in both hands!! This is imperative for playing any classical era pieces, they often has large passages of scales in them, but it helps with fingering and sight reading too. Yes I hated learning it and found playing all of them highly tedious, but you train your hands to be in the right spot when you start the piece, so then you don't have to worry about fingering, nor need to worry about which notes to sharpen/flatten, your hand will do that automatically as you move through the notes. When you see on the staff say a D, you don't need to think if they mean a D flat, D or D sharp, you know which it is!. I once played Beethovens' Sonata in E in front of my examiner in the wrong key, because I put my hand in the wrong spot by accident out of nervousness, to be told by the examiner, I have to do it over, I played in the wrong key! I don't know if people realise this, I think many don't. You can play any song in a major key in any other major key, similarly for minor key songs. It all depends on which note you started on where you placed you hand. The rest of the song is about distances (intervals) and the beat.
Excellent! Like someone else already said: I learned more in these few minutes than in several months. Thank you for a clear and simplified explanation!
@@LeCheileMusic Could You clarify the "ledger lines" between the G & F staffs. I think I've got it, but are the Treb/Bass staffs closer(on paper) with very few graduations between them?
@@robertakerman3570Middle C is the only note on a line between the Treble Clef (also known as G Clef) and the Bass Clef (aka F Clef). It's on it's own line. Tjink of a line running between the bottom line of the Treble Clef (E) and the top line of the Bass Clef (A). So --E-- --C-- --A---- The big gap between the two staves (Treble and Bass) is artificial. Where that lone Middle C is written matters. If it is under the Treble Clef, it is usually played with your right hand. If it is atop the Bass Clef, then you play it with your left hand (usually).
@@dookoonu2741There is only one line between the two staffs - and that line is occupied by Middle C. That's the reason Middle C always has a horizontal line running through it. There are no other ledger lines between the Treble (or G-) and Bass (or F-) Clefs.
In less than 20 min into your video, I was sight reading with so much ease, you are truly wonderful. If only I had this lesson early in life:) but I am elated now still. I actually played from the score the first four measures "correctly" of Bach's Goldberg Variations "Aria". At 57, I have never achieved simply looking at the music and playing directly from the score itself until now, thank you again!!!
I'm a guitar player and loved this breakdown, especially chord recognition. 🎹 The piano is precise when playing notes on the staff but the guitar can have several places the same note can be played. That makes sight reading a little more challenging!🎸😉
Yes! I always teach my students to not waste time reading each note. Esp for beginners that mostly stay in pentascale widths just changing hand positions, we can easily just say "skip a finger" for "line to line/ space to space" then after reveal that those moments are called 3rds.. reveal you are actually skipping one note within the regular scale. etc. Gives students lots of independence if you you can explain it well enough :)
I started to learn piano at 7. Stopped at 10. Started again at 13. Stopped again at 16. Even after all that, I couldn't read music. I haven't had a formal education since, I'm 28 and was never able to read the music I was playing. I know all my music by heart, learning a new piece is a struggle, I'd have to write down every letter next to the note, going by the "every good boy..." sentence, to teach myself. Sight reading was magic to me. I never learned about gbd face or intervals, and it baffles me, how my teachers could have missed that. Thank you for teaching me, maybe I'll finally be able to learn a few new pieces now, adding to those I've been playing by hear for 15+ years.
Thank you so much! Going on 68 and only took a year and a half or two of Piano in elementary school. I recently picked up the Harp which I love but I’m struggling reading notes. You have clarified for me in the span of this video exactly what I need to go forward! Thank you for taking time to publish this!
@@georgebuendia3491 …the harp makes very beautiful music ,just depends on if you make music or noise , sounds like you need practice if your a noise maker lol.
Great tips. I would also recommend to people to study harmony. If you can identify the chords as you play the music it makes things so much simpler. For example if you know it’s a C chord you know the notes will be based on CEG.
I tried studying the bookRudiments of Music at school 16years old. Now your video gives me true hope now I get to my keyboard every night at 60 years old thank you!
I have been struggling with reading sheet music since a while now but I'm sure this technique will definately speed up my playing. I'm so glad that I came across your channel. Beautifully explained. It's a blessing for self taught students like me to gain knowledge from experienced teachers like you. Thank you again. Hope to see more music theory + techniques based videos on your channel.
This requires me to learn new terminology as well. I had no idea what an Interval was til now. Thank you for the clarity. I just hear it🎼🎶🎹and play it. Notes terrify me. 😨 😱As a child I took lessons for two years. The teacher played the song and I could replicate it so never learned to read the notes. Suddenly she realized I played by ear and had not ever learned to read notes. So now some 40 years later after playing for churches, playing piano concerts, accompanying people, I am having to learn note sight reading as the new pianist for an SATB singing group. Why oh why did I say yes. 🙃 😅🎹🎼🎶 Because it will be a blast and I found you who has a wonderful way of teaching. Thank you. 🥰😘
I agree 100% - I was taught note identification when I was 8 or 9 and how to read the instructions but little else was explained. I wish my teachers had told me about pattern recognition. 1. Note and symbol recognition. 2. Interval and other pattern recognition. 3. This system was made for performing musicians and not for teaching so it’s not your fault that you can’t see the music in the notes.
Thanks for this quick lesson. In the past doing my private lessons with a private teacher, I always got stuck reading both staffs together (vertically) as I got into harder classical type music. I could never get comfortable in seeing all the notes and keep pace in playing the songs. Another words, I would always make mistakes or repeat myself. Also knowing where my hands playing together were on the keyboard. I knew the notes and intervals, but above was always my stumbling block or plateau of getting any better. I also played popular music and did playing by ear. All in all it was a nice learning experience. I started playing piano as an adult - age late 30's - then on for many years. in the past as a young kid played Trombone and stopped when I reached High School. I took up Guitar and still play the instrument from time to time. I am now retired. Take care.
This lesson is simply amazing, thank you. I tried for years to get faster at sight reading music but in twenty mins I'm already seeing improvement. Why isn't this being taught by other teachers, it's so much easier that Every good boy does fine. Thanks again.
I took lessons for 4 years back in my 20's. I played for a while but stopped in my early 30's. Now that I have retired, I've started playing again and sight reading has been a focus. Your technique of looking at the bottom note and the interval instead of both notes has been a immediate improvement in my ability to sight read. Thanks for the tips!
I have been teaching myself piano and have been doing these things naturally as obvious shortcuts. But I have been so worried that I'm not actually learning to "sight read" because I'm cheating the process in some way. To have a teacher recommend these shortcuts makes me feel a million times better about my process!
74 years old at the moment-taught myself to play the right hand years ago to practice my choir music. Taught myself guitar (Paul Simon), and played flute from age 9. Suddenly, I decided I wanted to play Moonlight Sonata before it just got too late. I’ve got a stack of books, but your one You Tube lesson made more sense than anything. I’m now more excited to really dig in and become a two-hand pianist. Thank you!
Been playing piano for a year and your intro described my peril of note reading. Having learned the usual mnemonics it is painfully slow. Have never heard of GBD FACE. It does look intuitively better , just need to learn how to apply it at speed. Well explained. Thank you
I teach this exact same way! The interval training and “landmarks” are much easier to teach than all the other saying I once learned. Thanks for re-teaching this!
This is actually amazing! I started self-teaching in October of 2020, and struggled to read sheet music for almost all of that time. I tried, but none of it ever made any sense to me. It was faster for me to use my ears and figure out what I was trying to play through experimentation. In using my ears, I actually discovered intervals pretty quickly, as identifying intervals is what allowed me to rapidly learn bits and pieces of music by ear. For example, I may not know what key the music is in, I may not know exactly what the notes are, but if I hear what sounds like a Pefect 5th, then I know exactly how to play that no matter where I start on the piano. I did eventually start taking real lessons a few months ago, and in that time I have learned quite a lot about sightreading. I actually managed to learn more about it than I thought I did. I pretty quickly noticed the relationship between the lines/spaces and how they corresponded to the piano. At first bass and treble being notated differently made no sense to me, until my teacher told me to imagine an invisible middle C connecting both clefs together. Then it just instantly made sense to me: bass and treble _are the entire piano._ For example, the lowest possible note in the bass clef is going to be the lowest possible note on the piano. The highest possible note in treble is going to be the highest possible note on the piano. Of course, these notes and their respective octaves will be notated _outside_ of the staff using additional ledger lines or spaces, but the point still stands. And smack dab in the middle is, well, middle C. Once I made this connection it made the sight reading _much easier._ If I saw an F in bass clef and saw something right above it, I just instantly knew it was a G. If I saw an A in bass cleff and saw a note 3 steps below that, I knew that was an F. Instead of thinking of the anagrams (every good boy does fine, all cows eat grass, etc) I imagined the entire piano and just knew exactly how to read what I was looking at. I still struggle to read chords, but super simple sheets for things like Christmas songs or nursery rhymes are no longer challenging. They are super easy and I can read them. I read them slowly, I work through it slowly, but I can tell exactly what the sheet music is telling me to do which I could not do previously. The point is, once you can look at a sequence of notes and just _know_ instantly what it is telling you to do, it just gets easier and easier to develop your sight reading for more complicated notation. I remember when my teacher was explaining intervals to me, I said "Oh, I know what that is, it's a Major 3rd", then she spat out random intervals and told me to play some of them. I got all of them right, and then when I made the connection about how the clefs _are_ the piano, I was like "wait, so this is how people sight read really well right? They're just looking at the gaps _between_ the notes?" I was surprised to learn that I was right about that.
Coming back to this after first watching it about a month ago, the brilliance of your approach is even clearer to me. Instead of “Every Good Boy Does Fine, FACE“ etc.,thought of as mnemonics for remembering the lines and spaces on the treble clef, for instance, you use GBD-FACE as a master key to unlock ANY sequence of lines and/or spaces, anywhere on, above, or below either clef. The power of this tool alone is remarkable, and incalculably more valuable than those traditional mnemonics. Also fascinating to learn the terms “G clef” and “F clef” and connect them with the symbols for the two clefs. Once more, thank you for this absolutely superb piece of education!
I just wanted to say THANK YOU! I am an adult learner but have been "playing" for years (on and off). I have always struggled with sight reading and never really got it. I love Jibidy Face. FINALLY I feel like I'm getting it. Your style and explanations are great and suit me down to the ground. Daisy is very sweet too.
Thanks so much LeCheile. From watching your video I now realize that playing by note patterns does help ease the pain of sight reading. It's less strain on the eyes rather than reading from note to note.
I honestly think of all the mnemonic devices I’ve ever heard taught to students to remember the notes on the grand staff, “jibidy face” and “face jibidy” is the most straight forward and easy to remember I have ever encountered. I’ve tried to think up better mnemonics and never came up with something so simple and easy to quickly remember. Thanks and I look forward to sharing that tip! :)
Amazing tutorial! Have been working hard recently to undo the bad habit my childhood piano teacher instilled in me with those mnemonics! But breaking down the intervals like this is a revelation - thank you so much!
Oh. My. Gawd. You are an Angel. I took piano lessons when when 10 years old, over one summer. Lost my teacher (business closed), and I have continued on my own, correction, struggled on my own for 47 years now. I have tried to teach myself to sight-read with no success and have been miserable for half a century. I’ve moved four times and carried my upright piano through every move even though I could barely play a handful of hard-memorized pieces - half of Für Elise, half of Clair de Lune, part of this and that. The thought I may now be able to open my world, and my house to more music literally brings tears to my eyes. Thank you, thank you, thank you... Go raibh maith agat! I have also sent you a small payment as I cannot afford much right now, but I will never forget you. Oh, and SUBSCRIBED!
Thank you Shane, you are tremendously kind, and I’m so happy that my video has helped you! And “go raibh mile maith agatsa freisin “ for your donation, it is very much appreciated and will go towards making future videos 💚🎶💚🎶💚
I know that this video is like two years old at this point, but I just want to say thank you for sharing this knowledge! I have always struggled with exactly this as I learned by ear. Now I'm trying to become a music teacher and this tool is magnificent!
That's been a great help! I wish someone had shown me this when I first started playing music 50+ years ago! I can't tell you how many times I started trying to learn to read music and learn theory over the years, except that it's the same amount of times that I've quit! Maybe now at 60 years of age the umpteenth time will be the charm! Thanks so much! You're a grand teacher!
The key skill is to be able to read music as effortlessly as reading a newspaper, and to train your hands and fingers to process this into motion on the keyboard. All without thinking about it all. Great piano virtuosos have this skill. It is a worthy goal to aim for.😁❤️🎹
Excellent way to make sight reading a way of moving through the music in a relative way rather have to recognise each of the individual notes. Even if you knew every note, that’s still not enough when reading chords. Thinking in terms of intervals and where you were one note (or two) before is so much more intuitive. The GBD FACE patterns across the entire staff/keyboard was something new for me. Keeps it’s simple! I’d like to add one suggestion. Learn to play the piano without looking at the keyboard. FEEL your way around (often by moving relative from where you happen to be), but practice being able to feel out any note on the keyboard without looking (shut your eyes!) This means that when you read music, your eyes are always on the score and you never have to look down, and then lose your place in the music (or lose the sense of where’re you’re going or have been relatively)! :)
When I took lessons in the late 50s and early 60s, my teacher never taught me about interval recognition. So, I learned the hard way: sightreading slowly through Chopin, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Mozart and Bach, until it all became automatic -- but that took six years to do. In my old age, I have returned to the piano after 16 years away, and after 14 months of some relearning old repertoire and much sightreading of nine Mozart sonatas, the skill finally returned. I now find sightreading Mozart & Beethoven sonatas much less difficult, and I can learn them faster, and without so much effort as before This is one of the great joys of life.
Ok, I am typing this exactly 3 min into your RUclips video and I have learned two major, and significant facts that in all the years I have studied, mostly choral 30+ years, I have never been taught. All I can say is I can't wait to continue and hear and learn more, thank you, thank you..., thank you...!
I've been singing most of my life, and I've gotten really good at sight-singing. I guess my main issues are that I simply am not accustomed to two hands and sight-reading multiple notes at the same time. I just have to work on my facility on the keyboard. Bass clef is also relatively new to me (always reading treble clef for my voice range), so sometimes I'll recognize the note a hair later than I would for treble clef.
You emphasize important concepts. As a church musician who has had to sight read a great deal (as a choral accompanist), I would urge that one's ability to read rhythm and keep up with the pulse is the MOST IMPORTANT key to good sight reading. You can drop notes right and left, but so long as you keep with the director and the choir, all will end relatively well. If you lose the beat, then EVERYTHING is wrong!
Thank you so much for posting this lesson. I'm new to keyboard playing and this has helped me a whole lot. I always wondered how ppl could just look at a new piece of music and instantly play it on the keyboard in real time while reading the notes, and you have clearly answered this question- they just identify the starting note and use that as a reference point for all other notes that follow. Thank you so much for this. It has helped me a whole lot.
Thank you, I have been playing music for over 50 years and never heard of Jibidy Face, this will be so helpful to many in their studies, good work thanks.
Thank you for emphasizing reading by interval. As a pianist and teacher, I know that this is incredibly important. Thanks for explaining it in a very clear and helpful way!
Wow!! Your the best. I have watched this video and took screen shots of your slides and already as a beginner I understand it really well. your awesome a big thank you for your time. I have subscribed and are looking forward to more of your tutorials.
That was fantastic! I was reading intervals looking for patterns as I also use patterns in website design. Just starting out with piano and didn't see the GBD FACE but know in the g and f clefs gives me an anchor and I think I can do this - was giving up.
That’s great, Jill, so glad I could help - and if you’re good at spotting patterns in general, you’ll love studying music. When you’re ready, have a look at my video called The Most Useful Music Theory You Never Knew You Needed; it’ll give another way to understand patterns in music. Happy practicing! 😊
Brilliant! I’ve been playing for 50 years and now seeing your lesson, am so pleased to learn the is an easier way of learning to sight read. Thank you for your exceptional video. I am an organist, playing swell, great, and pedal.
I was laughing when you went on about the sentences 😂.. I absolutely detest those sentences and advice my students to never rely on them. This is very useful Jibidy Face 😂😂😂 Brilliant!
I feel your pain - piano is particularly difficult in this respect because there can be so many notes happening at the same time! What can help if you’re just sightreading through something is to look for left hand patterns before you start playing (or indeed right hand patterns) to take some of the brain work out of it while you’re actually playing. Also, as I always tell my students, if it’s hard you’re possibly going too fast, so don’t be afraid to slow things right down. Finally, look for material that feels relatively easy to work on alongside the challenging stuff - think of it as brain training; the more you read at different levels, including easy levels, the more neural networks for recognition are being laid down in the brain and it gradually gets easier. Bet you’ve already come a long way from when you started! Hope this is some help. 😊
@@LeCheileMusic Thanks for the tips. It certainly is brain training. Just a couple of simple hands together sight-reading exercises and I'm mentally drained.
@@LeCheileMusic - What I do is to practice the right hand a bit first, and then the left hand, and only later put the two together. Of course that wouldn't be any good if one had to play a new piece for a listener and get it right first time, but that's not what I'm aiming for.
This is brilliant. Absolutely helpful for other instruments too. I'm a violinist (learning the piano now) and this has brought clarity after decades of confused muddling. Thank you!
"Pattern Recognition" is a Mental skill humans have. Thank YOU...! for showing us how to use that to be able to read sheet music. You are most correct, this way really is - 100% EASIER...! -cheers : )
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YOUR RED DOTS INDICATING SPOKEN PIANO NOTES :GBDFACE do not correspond to YOUR SPOKEN correct piano notes - HOW MISLEADING FOR ANY LEARNER! I’D say fix this or wipe the website, because it’s teaching WRONG to a learner.
Well I won't be! Would be a waste of my time at my time of life !
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Lifelong pianist of some accomplishment, strong ear musician/improviser, decent reader…barely passable sight reader. 5 min. in, feel like I’m being given the keys to the kingdom. Your quiet clarity is powerful-a great teacher!
I'm in the same boat. Thank you so much Leah! I am about to Google your studio to see if you offer online training
Same, accomplished ear 👂player, sight reading is painful at best, but suddenly find it necessary to learn it quickly. Am in panic mode currently. 😱😱😱
Same!
"Keys to the kingdom"? Was the pun intended? Hilarious! (You must be St. Peter by the way).
I think that a third skill involved is having a knowledge of the keyboard topography in your hands so you don't have to look down to play. Many people can read notes and intervals on page but struggle with sightreading because they don't trust or know the keyboard well enough to not look down.
That’s a great point, Rob, thanks. I address that in this video but it would have been a good addition here too: ruclips.net/video/uWCV2NMc9y8/видео.html
The course I've been using for a year makes sure you have what you so helpfully call 'keyboard topography' with hundreds of hours of improvising, without looking down, in 24 keys before a simplified notation gets us started in thinking in vertical dots. Then, when we start on the staff, we're writing mentally as we improvise. Kind of like writing in English before learning shorthand. The mnemonic in this video is helpful, but as you say, Rob, in order to play without looking up and down constantly, you have to know the keyboard very well via proprioception.
That sounds like an interesting course, can I ask you for the name of it? I also get my students to improvise on a few notes at a time to build awareness of where they are, but that sounds like it really takes it to a new level! 😃
@@LeCheileMusic It's Phil Best's Play Piano Fluently. He has ingeniously designed materials for guiding our hands to know where everything is. And, as you mention in the video linked under Rob's reply, rhythm is the foundation. He makes it simple, but as he always says, it isn't easy. And you don't get to play pieces you like from sheet music while you're working on this. I'd been using Alfred's All-in-One for two years and was just not satisfied with laboriously decoding the page, when I googled Play Piano Fluently and found the course. It's only meant for adults. But any level.
@@lshwadchuck5643 Thanks, I'll check it out!
Thank you!! Two more things that have helped me: 1. The "ACE" method. The bottom three spaces on the bass clef are ACE. The top three spaces on the treble clef are ACE. And the line between the clefs are ACE. (That C is the Middle C). They make a nice, symmetrical pattern on the clefs. (I am a visual person, so I can imagine them these without calculating them.) Then you can quickly deduce the notes around them. 2. For intervals: if both notes are on the same thing, meaning both are on a space or a line, then you know the interval is an odd number: a 3rd, a 5th, a 7th. If the interval notes are on different things, for example, one is on a line and one is on a space, then you know the interval is an even number: a 2nd, a 4th, a 6th, or an octave. I know you said this, but this is just a little more clarification. Thank you very much for this very helpful tutorial.
Love this, Jane - I've actually started using ACE with my students! 🤩
@@LeCheileMusic still to watch the video but i use ACE-G for bass spaces. Simplifies the time than using the mnemonic all cows eat grass. Then i use ACE-G for the upper treble ledger lines. And FACE for the lower bass ledger lines. I can remember most notes now all the way down to the lowest bass note to the highest treble.
For ledger spaces. I always keep the adjacent notes separate. Trebles upper G, and the Bass’ lower F. And then remember that the spaces are sort of mirrored in comparison. So the treble ledger spaces are B,D,F,A and the lower bass ledgers are D,B,G,E. Just remember one starts with B and the other stars D. When i was first learning my ledger spaces, i just remembered that the treble started with B then D. And bass was D then B.
Then when i got a bit better i recognised that the ledger lines are only an octave in range. So the first ledger space for the bass is F and the last ledger Line is F. I had to use an app to get the gist of it. Like it would be calling cards and you would press the note on a keyboard. Done it to the point where it felt as instinctive as reading words. Now im using a sight reading book called sight reading and harmony by bach scholar. I really want to improve my sight reading the most. Cause it makes learning new peices so mich easier, then next ill try and improve on recognising chords and chord progressions.
confused I will now stick wit GIBIDY FACE it makes more sense to me.
I'm a piano teacher and I teach my students the exact same thing. Once you can see intervals and chords shapes piano can be just as easy as it is to read words. Sight reading is a great skill to have. Awesome video!
I started to learn the piano over 40 years ago. My ear was good, my music reading was truly awful. I staggered on for a decade or so, murdering Joplin, Chopin, Debussy and many more, until I could get no further with muscle memory and playing by ear alone. I’ve just chanced on this absolute gem of a tutorial. I WISH someone had explained it to me like this….. I’m going to have another go! Thank you so much.
Great to hear, John, thanks and good luck! 😊
I love your videos. Probably something you already know but I just realized to help identify notes not on the staff are the threes ACE’s. Above the treble staff first three spaces from bottom to top are A C E. Below the bass staff the three spaces are A C E. And between the staffs are on lines are A C (middle C) and E. Helps me quickly identify those notes not on the staff lines. Thank you so much.
The cheque's in the post....
Wow! Every once in a while you find a gem on RUclips. This is definitely a gem. Thanks so much. My sight reading is already improving. Why didn’t I know this before. How lucky are your students to have you as a teacher. Wish I’d started learning with you. Thanks so much for sharing. I really am impressed.
Thank you, that’s so nice to hear 😊🎶
Your pedagogy is effective , Inigualable and Incomparable with others ; because it is simply,easy and it really works for youngest pianists.
@@williampena5885 yeah b/c it isn't pedagogy but proper didactics :)
Suggestions for fellow viewers: Schumann’s Album for the Young has several great pieces for sight reading practice. Some nice ones to start with: nos. 1, 3 & 5 (all C maj), Chorale. All simple, but highly musical… & beautiful. Another great piece to sight read is Bach’s famous Prelude in C-you get a lot of musical “bang for your buck” because essentially every measure in the piece is repeated. And while you were playing the repetition, you can read ahead to the next measure. It is also heartbreakingly beautiful music.
This is sooo much easier than how I was taught. I would have actually practiced and not been tortured waiting to just go play football outside. Thanks for taking what seemed so hard and making it easy.
Wow! I played piano for a few years before eventually losing interest due to not being able to read music very well. I was a self taught "every good boy does fine, all cows eat grass" kinda guy and even tried rote memorization of the notes. I spent countless hours slowly deciphering and memorizing some great songs but my inability to read faster really cut down on my enjoyment and what I could play. So I recently decided, I'm taking up piano again but this time I'm doing whatever it takes to become a "good" site reader. I stumbled across your video a couple days ago and have to say - I am officially a GBDFACE convert LOL! Two days of using your tricks has made me feel like I've supercharged my site reading quest! Thank you! 😃
Thank you! I have been struggling with sight reading for years, and this is genius! Makes me see so much more clearly without stopping every two seconds to figure out the note on the page!
Great video and it makes reading a lot easier. Other few things which should be mentioned is:
1) take a note of which scale you in by looking at the key markers at the beginning of the 1st bar, and to make sure it is not a minor scale, check for frequently sharps and flatted notes.
2) scan also through the music to look for scale changes (modulations) and try to remember from and to scales the music goes. It often modulates back to beginning scale.
3) know how to play ALL the scales, majors, minors and chromatics in both hands!!
This is imperative for playing any classical era pieces, they often has large passages of scales in them, but it helps with fingering and sight reading too.
Yes I hated learning it and found playing all of them highly tedious, but you train your hands to be in the right spot when you start the piece, so then you don't have to worry about fingering, nor need to worry about which notes to sharpen/flatten, your hand will do that automatically as you move through the notes.
When you see on the staff say a D, you don't need to think if they mean a D flat, D or D sharp, you know which it is!.
I once played Beethovens' Sonata in E in front of my examiner in the wrong key, because I put my hand in the wrong spot by accident out of nervousness, to be told by the examiner, I have to do it over, I played in the wrong key!
I don't know if people realise this, I think many don't.
You can play any song in a major key in any other major key, similarly for minor key songs.
It all depends on which note you started on where you placed you hand. The rest of the song is about distances (intervals) and the beat.
Right. It’s called transposing. Good post!
Excellent! Like someone else already said: I learned more in these few minutes than in several months. Thank you for a clear and simplified explanation!
Glad it was helpful!
@@LeCheileMusic Could You clarify the "ledger lines" between the G & F staffs. I think I've got it, but are the Treb/Bass staffs closer(on paper) with very few graduations between them?
I second that
@@robertakerman3570Middle C is the only note on a line between the Treble Clef (also known as G Clef) and the Bass Clef (aka F Clef). It's on it's own line.
Tjink of a line running between the bottom line of the Treble Clef (E) and the top line of the Bass Clef (A).
So
--E--
--C--
--A----
The big gap between the two staves (Treble and Bass) is artificial.
Where that lone Middle C is written matters.
If it is under the Treble Clef, it is usually played with your right hand.
If it is atop the Bass Clef, then you play it with your left hand (usually).
@@dookoonu2741There is only one line between the two staffs - and that line is occupied by Middle C.
That's the reason Middle C always has a horizontal line running through it.
There are no other ledger lines between the Treble (or G-) and Bass (or F-) Clefs.
Great stuff! When you say “I’ve got your back”, it sounds so genuine and heartfelt!
In less than 20 min into your video, I was sight reading with so much ease, you are truly wonderful. If only I had this lesson early in life:) but I am elated now still. I actually played from the score the first four measures "correctly" of Bach's Goldberg Variations "Aria". At 57, I have never achieved simply looking at the music and playing directly from the score itself until now, thank you again!!!
I'm a guitar player and loved this breakdown, especially chord recognition. 🎹 The piano is precise when playing notes on the staff but the guitar can have several places the same note can be played. That makes sight reading a little more challenging!🎸😉
I've always done the interval reading part easily, but am bad at identifying notes. This was helpful, so thanks.
Yes! I always teach my students to not waste time reading each note.
Esp for beginners that mostly stay in pentascale widths just changing hand positions, we can easily just say "skip a finger" for "line to line/ space to space"
then after reveal that those moments are called 3rds.. reveal you are actually skipping one note within the regular scale. etc.
Gives students lots of independence if you you can explain it well enough :)
In all my more than 50 + yrs of trying to learn note reading this is the BEST tutorial on reading notes I have ever seen or read,.
I am pretty sure you just healed my sight reading. Wow. (Guitarist).
That’s wonderful to hear! 😊👍🎶
I've just started (yet again) learn the piano and sight reading has always been an issue, as you stated. Thank you.
4:00 Interval recognition (GBD)(FACE): 5:30 Bass clef; 5:55 Trebble clef 👍
7:30 Intervals: 8:18 2nd=steps; 10:05 3rd=skips; 11:26 4th (skip 2); 12:30 5th (skip3); 14:12 6th 7th 8th.
I'm a guitarist and this video was very useful to me.
Learned more in 20 minutes then I did after a year of weekly ear training/theory classes. Honestly bless you, this has helped me so much omg
Delighted to help! 😊🎶
This is indeed a revelation. I'd have learnt to read better had I known this before
So an odd number interval looks even on the staff whereas an even number interval looks odd on the staff. Very useful to know.
Thanks; much easier than the silly two step process we were taught, which is the reason I play by ear.
I really appreciate the way you teach to read both clefs as one, you are genius.
I started to learn piano at 7. Stopped at 10. Started again at 13. Stopped again at 16. Even after all that, I couldn't read music. I haven't had a formal education since, I'm 28 and was never able to read the music I was playing. I know all my music by heart, learning a new piece is a struggle, I'd have to write down every letter next to the note, going by the "every good boy..." sentence, to teach myself. Sight reading was magic to me. I never learned about gbd face or intervals, and it baffles me, how my teachers could have missed that. Thank you for teaching me, maybe I'll finally be able to learn a few new pieces now, adding to those I've been playing by hear for 15+ years.
You definitely will, and at 28 you’ve got a good 60-70 years of playing ahead of you, so I predict it’ll be more than just a few! 🥰
Thank you so much! Going on 68 and only took a year and a half or two of Piano in elementary school. I recently picked up the Harp which I love but I’m struggling reading notes. You have clarified for me in the span of this video exactly what I need to go forward! Thank you for taking time to publish this!
Good luck with the harp. Took up the concert harp when young. Made a lot of noise with the 7 pedals!
@@georgebuendia3491 …the harp makes very beautiful music ,just depends on if you make music or noise , sounds like you need practice if your a noise maker lol.
Yessss, Very Helpful!!! THANK UOU😍🙏🙏🙏
Great tips. I would also recommend to people to study harmony. If you can identify the chords as you play the music it makes things so much simpler. For example if you know it’s a C chord you know the notes will be based on CEG.
GBD FACE - my BASS learnings just intensified! Thank you.
Best sight reading lesson I have come across. Thank you.
I tried studying the bookRudiments of Music at school 16years old. Now your video gives me true hope now I get to my keyboard every night at 60 years old thank you!
I have been struggling with reading sheet music since a while now but I'm sure this technique will definately speed up my playing. I'm so glad that I came across your channel. Beautifully explained. It's a blessing for self taught students like me to gain knowledge from experienced teachers like you. Thank you again. Hope to see more music theory + techniques based videos on your channel.
Thanks so much, Abhijit, that’s great to hear! Yes, I have lots more planned for the coming months 😊
This requires me to learn new terminology as well. I had no idea what an Interval was til now. Thank you for the clarity. I just hear it🎼🎶🎹and play it. Notes terrify me. 😨 😱As a child I took lessons for two years. The teacher played the song and I could replicate it so never learned to read the notes. Suddenly she realized I played by ear and had not ever learned to read notes. So now some 40 years later after playing for churches, playing piano concerts, accompanying people, I am having to learn note sight reading as the new pianist for an SATB singing group. Why oh why did I say yes. 🙃 😅🎹🎼🎶 Because it will be a blast and I found you who has a wonderful way of teaching. Thank you. 🥰😘
I agree 100% - I was taught note identification when I was 8 or 9 and how to read the instructions but little else was explained. I wish my teachers had told me about pattern recognition.
1. Note and symbol recognition.
2. Interval and other pattern recognition.
3. This system was made for performing musicians and not for teaching so it’s not your fault that you can’t see the music in the notes.
❤❤❤ I agree with you. I taught my son piano he is an organ major now but yes ur teaching, tricks are very good!
Thanks for this quick lesson. In the past doing my private lessons with a private teacher, I always got stuck reading both staffs together (vertically) as I got into harder classical type music. I could never get comfortable in seeing all the notes and keep pace in playing the songs. Another words, I would always make mistakes or repeat myself. Also knowing where my hands playing together were on the keyboard.
I knew the notes and intervals, but above was always my stumbling block or plateau of getting any better. I also played popular music and did playing by ear. All in all it was a nice learning experience. I started playing piano as an adult - age late 30's - then on for many years. in the past as a young kid played Trombone and stopped when I reached High School. I took up Guitar and still play the instrument from time to time. I am now retired.
Take care.
I keep coming back to this lesson because its SO AWESOME 🎉🎉🎉THANK YOU SO MUCH 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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This lesson is simply amazing, thank you. I tried for years to get faster at sight reading music but in twenty mins I'm already seeing improvement. Why isn't this being taught by other teachers, it's so much easier that Every good boy does fine. Thanks again.
Fantastic, delighted to help! Thank you also for your kind donation, greatly appreciated 🙂
I took lessons for 4 years back in my 20's. I played for a while but stopped in my early 30's. Now that I have retired, I've started playing again and sight reading has been a focus. Your technique of looking at the bottom note and the interval instead of both notes has been a immediate improvement in my ability to sight read. Thanks for the tips!
I have been teaching myself piano and have been doing these things naturally as obvious shortcuts. But I have been so worried that I'm not actually learning to "sight read" because I'm cheating the process in some way. To have a teacher recommend these shortcuts makes me feel a million times better about my process!
Thank you for the best explanation!
Holy moly, none of my piano teachers taught me this. Extremely helpful. Cheers from Jacksonville, fl
74 years old at the moment-taught myself to play the right hand years ago to practice my choir music. Taught myself guitar (Paul Simon), and played flute from age 9. Suddenly, I decided I wanted to play Moonlight Sonata before it just got too late. I’ve got a stack of books, but your one You Tube lesson made more sense than anything. I’m now more excited to really dig in and become a two-hand pianist. Thank you!
Good luck! 🥰
Been playing piano for a year and your intro described my peril of note reading. Having learned the usual mnemonics it is painfully slow. Have never heard of GBD FACE. It does look intuitively better , just need to learn how to apply it at speed. Well explained. Thank you
I teach this exact same way! The interval training and “landmarks” are much easier to teach than all the other saying I once learned. Thanks for re-teaching this!
My aunt who was a professional pianist told me "look at the music - the keys don't move."
Good advice, I like it! 😁
Never heard that before thanks! I will never take my eyes off the page again. (or try not to)
@@ddslahsddslahs6690 seriously good advice
I love this ... very useful tool. One thing regarding consecutivr fifths: Claude Debussy loved them ... as did Vaughan Williams.
This is actually amazing! I started self-teaching in October of 2020, and struggled to read sheet music for almost all of that time. I tried, but none of it ever made any sense to me. It was faster for me to use my ears and figure out what I was trying to play through experimentation. In using my ears, I actually discovered intervals pretty quickly, as identifying intervals is what allowed me to rapidly learn bits and pieces of music by ear. For example, I may not know what key the music is in, I may not know exactly what the notes are, but if I hear what sounds like a Pefect 5th, then I know exactly how to play that no matter where I start on the piano.
I did eventually start taking real lessons a few months ago, and in that time I have learned quite a lot about sightreading. I actually managed to learn more about it than I thought I did. I pretty quickly noticed the relationship between the lines/spaces and how they corresponded to the piano. At first bass and treble being notated differently made no sense to me, until my teacher told me to imagine an invisible middle C connecting both clefs together.
Then it just instantly made sense to me: bass and treble _are the entire piano._ For example, the lowest possible note in the bass clef is going to be the lowest possible note on the piano. The highest possible note in treble is going to be the highest possible note on the piano. Of course, these notes and their respective octaves will be notated _outside_ of the staff using additional ledger lines or spaces, but the point still stands. And smack dab in the middle is, well, middle C.
Once I made this connection it made the sight reading _much easier._ If I saw an F in bass clef and saw something right above it, I just instantly knew it was a G. If I saw an A in bass cleff and saw a note 3 steps below that, I knew that was an F. Instead of thinking of the anagrams (every good boy does fine, all cows eat grass, etc) I imagined the entire piano and just knew exactly how to read what I was looking at.
I still struggle to read chords, but super simple sheets for things like Christmas songs or nursery rhymes are no longer challenging. They are super easy and I can read them. I read them slowly, I work through it slowly, but I can tell exactly what the sheet music is telling me to do which I could not do previously. The point is, once you can look at a sequence of notes and just _know_ instantly what it is telling you to do, it just gets easier and easier to develop your sight reading for more complicated notation.
I remember when my teacher was explaining intervals to me, I said "Oh, I know what that is, it's a Major 3rd", then she spat out random intervals and told me to play some of them. I got all of them right, and then when I made the connection about how the clefs _are_ the piano, I was like "wait, so this is how people sight read really well right? They're just looking at the gaps _between_ the notes?" I was surprised to learn that I was right about that.
Wonderful! 🥰🤩
Coming back to this after first watching it about a month ago, the brilliance of your approach is even clearer to me. Instead of “Every Good Boy Does Fine, FACE“ etc.,thought of as mnemonics for remembering the lines and spaces on the treble clef, for instance, you use GBD-FACE as a master key to unlock ANY sequence of lines and/or spaces, anywhere on, above, or below either clef. The power of this tool alone is remarkable, and incalculably more valuable than those traditional mnemonics. Also fascinating to learn the terms “G clef” and “F clef” and connect them with the symbols for the two clefs. Once more, thank you for this absolutely superb piece of education!
Left : GBD FACE
Right : FACE GBD
Intervals
2nd
3rd
4th
5th - 7 semitones
6th
7th - normally @ the end of music
Octaves
Key and sharps
I just wanted to say THANK YOU! I am an adult learner but have been "playing" for years (on and off). I have always struggled with sight reading and never really got it.
I love Jibidy Face. FINALLY I feel like I'm getting it.
Your style and explanations are great and suit me down to the ground. Daisy is very sweet too.
this is the simplest and most effective tutorial I've seen, thanks a lot
Thanks so much LeCheile. From watching your video I now realize that playing by note patterns does help ease the pain of sight reading. It's less strain on the eyes rather than reading from note to note.
I honestly think of all the mnemonic devices I’ve ever heard taught to students to remember the notes on the grand staff, “jibidy face” and “face jibidy” is the most straight forward and easy to remember I have ever encountered. I’ve tried to think up better mnemonics and never came up with something so simple and easy to quickly remember. Thanks and I look forward to sharing that tip! :)
I learned something from your video so I subscribe to your channel. Learn more. Keep sharing your talent.
Amazing tutorial! Have been working hard recently to undo the bad habit my childhood piano teacher instilled in me with those mnemonics! But breaking down the intervals like this is a revelation - thank you so much!
Delighted to help!
Oh. My. Gawd. You are an Angel.
I took piano lessons when when 10 years old, over one summer. Lost my teacher (business closed), and I have continued on my own, correction, struggled on my own for 47 years now. I have tried to teach myself to sight-read with no success and have been miserable for half a century. I’ve moved four times and carried my upright piano through every move even though I could barely play a handful of hard-memorized pieces - half of Für Elise, half of Clair de Lune, part of this and that. The thought I may now be able to open my world, and my house to more music literally brings tears to my eyes. Thank you, thank you, thank you... Go raibh maith agat!
I have also sent you a small payment as I cannot afford much right now, but I will never forget you. Oh, and SUBSCRIBED!
Thank you Shane, you are tremendously kind, and I’m so happy that my video has helped you! And “go raibh mile maith agatsa freisin “ for your donation, it is very much appreciated and will go towards making future videos 💚🎶💚🎶💚
gosh... thank you. I'm a complete beginner, but I get it.
3 minutes in and this is already far more helpful than any other guide or tutorial ive seen!
Thank you. After many years you gave me hope. I will subscribe. You’re a good teacher
Welcome aboard - thanks for subscribing!
I know that this video is like two years old at this point, but I just want to say thank you for sharing this knowledge! I have always struggled with exactly this as I learned by ear. Now I'm trying to become a music teacher and this tool is magnificent!
Did you download your free piano practice workbook yet? 🤩 Get it here: mailchi.mp/bccb1e32807f/practice-workbook-giveaway
@Hector Marshall You are welcome xD
Where to download the workbook.
Hi Lala, if you look in the description info below the video, you’ll find the link there.
I clicked on the link and put my email id, some 5 hours back. Not yet recd the work book. Waiting ma'am
@@TaraanaMusicHutoxiTavadia2260 Sorry to hear that! If you email me directly at leahmurphyu@gmail.com, I’ll send it to you by return.
That's been a great help!
I wish someone had shown me this when I first started playing music 50+ years ago!
I can't tell you how many times I started trying to learn to read music and learn theory over the years, except that it's the same amount of times that I've quit!
Maybe now at 60 years of age the umpteenth time will be the charm!
Thanks so much! You're a grand teacher!
The key skill is to be able to read music as effortlessly as reading a newspaper, and to train your hands and fingers to process this into motion on the keyboard. All without thinking about it all. Great piano virtuosos have this skill. It is a worthy goal to aim for.😁❤️🎹
That’s it exactly, Tom. It’s worth doing as much sight reading as possible to achieve this. 😊
Thank you so very much! You taught me more in 20 minutes, then I have learnt in 2 years! Thank you so much. Best wishes in 2023!
Excellent way to make sight reading a way of moving through the music in a relative way rather have to recognise each of the individual notes. Even if you knew every note, that’s still not enough when reading chords. Thinking in terms of intervals and where you were one note (or two) before is so much more intuitive.
The GBD FACE patterns across the entire staff/keyboard was something new for me. Keeps it’s simple!
I’d like to add one suggestion. Learn to play the piano without looking at the keyboard. FEEL your way around (often by moving relative from where you happen to be), but practice being able to feel out any note on the keyboard without looking (shut your eyes!)
This means that when you read music, your eyes are always on the score and you never have to look down, and then lose your place in the music (or lose the sense of where’re you’re going or have been relatively)!
:)
I’ve watched this video about 10 times! It’s so incredibly helpful! Thanks so much, Leah!!❤
Learned a lot in 20 minutes, you are an awesome teacher. Thank you very much.
When I took lessons in the late 50s and early 60s, my teacher never taught me about interval recognition. So, I learned the hard way: sightreading slowly through Chopin, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Mozart and Bach, until it all became automatic -- but that took six years to do. In my old age, I have returned to the piano after 16 years away, and after 14 months of some relearning old repertoire and much sightreading of nine Mozart sonatas, the skill finally returned. I now find sightreading Mozart & Beethoven sonatas much less difficult, and I can learn them faster, and without so much effort as before This is one of the great joys of life.
Wonderful explanation,wish I had this approach in my formative years,keep up the great videos.
Thanks Rossco! 😊
Ok, I am typing this exactly 3 min into your RUclips video and I have learned two major, and significant facts that in all the years I have studied, mostly choral 30+ years, I have never been taught. All I can say is I can't wait to continue and hear and learn more, thank you, thank you..., thank you...!
I've been singing most of my life, and I've gotten really good at sight-singing. I guess my main issues are that I simply am not accustomed to two hands and sight-reading multiple notes at the same time. I just have to work on my facility on the keyboard. Bass clef is also relatively new to me (always reading treble clef for my voice range), so sometimes I'll recognize the note a hair later than I would for treble clef.
Tack så mycket för jibidy face 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉.
Men det andra fattade jag tyvärr inte alls . Jag är långsam på att lär mig . ❤
You emphasize important concepts. As a church musician who has had to sight read a great deal (as a choral accompanist), I would urge that one's ability to read rhythm and keep up with the pulse is the MOST IMPORTANT key to good sight reading. You can drop notes right and left, but so long as you keep with the director and the choir, all will end relatively well. If you lose the beat, then EVERYTHING is wrong!
Yes indeed, very true. I cover that in my video in rhythm.
Thank you so much for posting this lesson. I'm new to keyboard playing and this has helped me a whole lot. I always wondered how ppl could just look at a new piece of music and instantly play it on the keyboard in real time while reading the notes, and you have clearly answered this question- they just identify the starting note and use that as a reference point for all other notes that follow. Thank you so much for this. It has helped me a whole lot.
Just wonderful trick, method or whatever is called. Thank you so much.
Most welcome 😊
One of the best piano tutorials, hands down. I love this.
An excellent tutorial, it has improved my sight reading 100% more! Thank you so much!
The light just went on. THANKYOU.
GBD FACE might be the most useful way to sightread, Im trying a few landmark systems but GBD FACE helps with easily recognising both clefs
Thank you, I have been playing music for over 50 years and never heard of Jibidy Face, this will be so helpful to many in their studies, good work thanks.
Thank you for emphasizing reading by interval. As a pianist and teacher, I know that this is incredibly important. Thanks for explaining it in a very clear and helpful way!
You're very welcome!
Thanks! How lucky we are to have these videos available from such a wonderful teacher.
Thank you so much! 🙏
Wow! I'm a drummer that went to music school, always struggled with reading pitched music. This was a huge help. Thanks!!!
Hi how are you? My piano music stand might benefit you, please check it out. Thank you Norman.
I'm trying to teach my 68 year old mind to remember what I knew at 10 years old, and you just told me how!!
Excellent! 😃
Wow!! Your the best. I have watched this video and took screen shots of your slides and already as a beginner I understand it really well. your awesome a big thank you for your time. I have subscribed and are looking forward to more of your tutorials.
Thank you!
simply the best lesson on the net by light years - it has completely revolutionised my reading over night !! - I'm a massive fan Leah
Fantastic, great to hear! Thanks Robert 😊
That was fantastic! I was reading intervals looking for patterns as I also use patterns in website design. Just starting out with piano and didn't see the GBD FACE but know in the g and f clefs gives me an anchor and I think I can do this - was giving up.
That’s great, Jill, so glad I could help - and if you’re good at spotting patterns in general, you’ll love studying music. When you’re ready, have a look at my video called The Most Useful Music Theory You Never Knew You Needed; it’ll give another way to understand patterns in music. Happy practicing! 😊
Brilliant! I’ve been playing for 50 years and now seeing your lesson, am so pleased to learn the is an easier way of learning to sight read. Thank you for your exceptional video. I am an organist, playing swell, great, and pedal.
I was laughing when you went on about the sentences 😂.. I absolutely detest those sentences and advice my students to never rely on them. This is very useful Jibidy Face 😂😂😂 Brilliant!
I played piano for YEARS and I never knew about what the treble and bass clef indicated!! MY MIND IS BLOWN!!
What would be really helpful are tips for reading both staves at the same time. This is something that I just cannot crack.
I feel your pain - piano is particularly difficult in this respect because there can be so many notes happening at the same time! What can help if you’re just sightreading through something is to look for left hand patterns before you start playing (or indeed right hand patterns) to take some of the brain work out of it while you’re actually playing. Also, as I always tell my students, if it’s hard you’re possibly going too fast, so don’t be afraid to slow things right down. Finally, look for material that feels relatively easy to work on alongside the challenging stuff - think of it as brain training; the more you read at different levels, including easy levels, the more neural networks for recognition are being laid down in the brain and it gradually gets easier. Bet you’ve already come a long way from when you started! Hope this is some help. 😊
@@LeCheileMusic Thanks for the tips. It certainly is brain training. Just a couple of simple hands together sight-reading exercises and I'm mentally drained.
@@LeCheileMusic I agree that practising very slowly certainly helps.
@@LeCheileMusic - What I do is to practice the right hand a bit first, and then the left hand, and only later put the two together. Of course that wouldn't be any good if one had to play a new piece for a listener and get it right first time, but that's not what I'm aiming for.
@@Astronist Absolutely - hands separate practice is essential in the early stages of learning a piece :-)
This is brilliant. Absolutely helpful for other instruments too. I'm a violinist (learning the piano now) and this has brought clarity after decades of confused muddling. Thank you!
You’re welcome, best of luck on your piano journey! 😊
'A 'g' that got out of hand.' 😂
"Pattern Recognition" is a Mental skill humans have. Thank YOU...! for showing us how to use that to be able to read sheet music.
You are most correct, this way really is - 100% EASIER...! -cheers : )
Wow!! A new insult...."you dozy jibbidy face"
AND a golden key to unlock the mysteries of the Grand Staff!
Thank you.
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