If music notation was taught in grammar school side by side with regular language instruction, by high school we would all be reading music as naturally as the newspaper, and the news might have a better sound to it.
@@AltPeachStudy that's great. I wish every country includes music as a necessary subject for school children. Optional if not mandatory. I recently started a program at a Montessori school where students can choose to be in any club they want. From Music, Medical, Taekwondo, art n craft, swimming, sewing, cooking etc. I teach students who opted for music. They are between 4 to 8 years of age and are little bundles of Joy. Best wishes to you from Nagaland.
@William Kircher that's true. But out here, we take lesser fee compared to actual music schools where individual classes are given. The parents can choose other clubs if they cannot afford another 15 to 20 dollars a month.
It is where I live. The result: we all messed around in class and forgot everything we learned by the time high school rolled around. You can’t force kids to learn something they don’t necessarily care about, because it just won’t stick.
"All Japanese children can speak Japanese" - a VERY hard language, yet children master it because they are taught that to do so is a happy and natural part of life. They can be taught that music is a happy and natural part of life, and master it from a young age. For that matter, they can be taught that love, respect, joy in learning and peace are happy and natural parts of human life. Children can learn anything if we present it to them as a natural and desireable part of life. Thank you Dr. Suzuki, you are loved!
Comparing it to Chinese kids would make more sense. Chinese is harder and average Chinese kids take higher educational classes than Japanese. Making happiness more necessary for the Chinese
As a musician myself, I can't believe I've never simplified music like this. I mean, this is a lot simpler than how basic music theory showed it to me.
I've been studying music in its different forms, choral, piano, modern, etc, for little over 20 years and this is such a fascinating video for explaining music in its most rudimentary form. Such a good introduction for anyone wanting to take up music as a hobby.
I've been in the same loop of coming back to these kinds of videos for years hoping it'll click. I feel like it's just trying to be confusing at this point. 😂
The reason so many of us here already know how to read music is because we are music teachers, and we are always looking for an informative and well-made resource. Unfortunately, this isn't one, for all the reasons others have already mentioned. I can't imagine that a single inexperienced person watching this would get to the end and feel like they are ready to take a simple piece of music and start figuring it out.
I agree but for someone like myself who had forgotten how to read music and needed a "refresher" so to speak, this was a great vid. One can learn music in just one week if they dedicate 1 hour a day. I say this from experience as when I first learned I never picked up an instrument in my life yet my music teacher, Mr. Audi, taught me something as complicated as this in literally one week. It took me about a year to "truly" grasp sight reading and about two to "master" it, AND EVEN THEN I was not perfect or anything[but that's porbably me being hard on myself. I could never play a piece to "perfection" IMO even though I did earn awards...it's just one of those things. lol
Zack Lunas See, the thing is this is comparable to elementary school math When it comes to actual compositions like classical music or jazz you’re starting to get to highschool level, where you can read the music but probably have a hard time playing certain rhythms by yourself an instant (eg polyrhytms). And then there’s genres like math rock or really complex jazz music in where you sometimes don’t even exactly know which note comes before which, also you have to follow rules cause there’s way more things than just the stuff in the video. There can be changing pace, having to play 2 melodies with one hand, while still playing another rhythm with your other hand (for piano at least). There’s key signatures (comparable to mathematical rules where you have to keep an order for something) and signs that will remove these. Then there’s intonation, dynamics, etc. this video is literally like teaching basic maths like addition, division, multiplication, subtraction and bracket rules
It's easy actually, there are tricks on how to memorize which pitch is in which line hahaha😂 and also practice, everything gets easier when you practice!😊💜
@@santanuchowdhury609 Didn't capitalize the I, used the wrong homophone of die/dye, and both failed to capitalize Bieber's name and spelled it wrong...
Science professors while teaching science: Come on, this is not music theory. Musicians while teaching music theory: Come on, this is not rocket science. *confused noises*
Our physicsteacher studied physics math and music. He said that he chose music aswell because math and physics werent enough of a challenge for him. Then he proceeded to talk with the musicians in our class for like 15 minutes or so
I've always been very intrigued what sheet music looks like to someone who doesn't know how to read it. Like I was taught at a very young age how to read music so now I look at it and it feels the same as simply reading a word. But I am curious what it is like to look at a chord and have no idea what it means.
Ive played a bit of guitar, and there are some songs with "tab" versions. Basicaly 6 lines that represent each string, and numbers to show where on each string to play. When I look at sheet music, I think it looks like a different form of tab, even if its not the same thing. I know that up on sheet music means higher, and down is lower, and with simple stuff I can sortof guess what it might sound like but otherwise im a bit clueless
Sheet notes look like a reflection of my own incapabality to read and it feels like the notes are looking down on me for not understanding them (especially the high ones). I have a hate-love relationship with understanding music.
I just got casted into a musical and I’ve never seen any sheet music really.. and I’m kinda struggling and nervous that I’m not going to understand the beats and whenever he says a fancy music word :’)
Hurts specially those who already read some, but without fluency, and thought they could improve their perspective by watching this video. I call this counter-educational.
I'm high functioning autistic and throughout middle and high school both my choir and band teachers to no avail tried to teach me how to read sheet music. I felt like I couldn't physically translate the notes to the sounds like symbols couldn't tell me what sound to play and how to play it exactly. This video helped me understand that better. Thank you.
@@timmerbell5217 luckily we only use alto and tenor(and I play alto so that's half the battle) but I have to learn the other ones so theyguve me trouble
As a music teacher, it's always interesting to hear other teachers take on explaining musical topics. Great video (apart from the written vs sounding pitch at 4:22 many have already commented on)!
another mistake at the minute 4:42 is that the sharps are in the wrong position, they would be alright if there was a tremble cleff, but there's the bass one and the sharps should be on the 4th line and 2nd space I don't know if I wrote this right but English isn't my first language so... Ok that's it I'm gonna go practice
&Dudldhoo24, yes they put an accidental in a wrong position. It should be in the 4th line which is "F" to make it an "F#" since the key signature tells us that it is in Dmajor scale.
I never had any background with music but with the help and teaching of our choir master in Church, we learned how to read music. Thru the years, we just learn how to sing a new piece by just reading the notes even without the instrument.
How funny that the comments section are filled by people who know how to read music while I'm here trying to cope up 😂 i hope i can read notes too and play a piano 😭
This was such an eye opener. I know nothing about music but this explained so much that seemed so complicated about music. Id love to see another video explaining what on earth is a "minor" vs "major", "harmony", "instrumentation", "transposition", etc.
A minor key sounds much darker than a major key. Simply, sad songs would be in minor key while a happy song is in major key. Harmony is the background of the music. It is the opposite of the melody, the main sequence of notes that you’d hear the most. Transposition is when you take a song in a certain key (ex. C major) and turn it into a different key (ex. F major). I don’t know what instrumentation is lmao
Looking for something to share with students, this is really nice. I was surprised at 4:20 though, when the tune used to illustrate quarter note rhythms was different than what was written on the staff. Easy thing to overlook but it would have been nice if the pitch matched what was being played. Not matching could be confusing to a novice who is trying to learn from this video. Thanks for making the video, though!
Wow, directors should be on top of that, it makes starting new music much easier. In 7th grade my choir director taught us this and accidentals pretty well in a couple weeks only going over it once or twice a week.
Same here its a joke how easy it is when explained correctly. At saying that im certainly more interested now than i was then. Maybe its more to do with paying attention :)
Do English-speakers really learn notes in the order A B C D E F G ? This seems so strange to me because as a French I learnt Do Ré Mi Fa Sol La Si which is the equivalent of C D E F G A B.
Best part about it: The melody played at 4:22 is 'Freude, schöner Götterfunken' from Beethovens 5th Symphony. But the notes show the first half of a C Major scale downwards...
Omg thank you so much Music taught in school makes it so complex and overdone I was worried I'm gonna fail something easy as music. You'll guys just simplified two years worth of overdoing teaching into 5 minutes.(And I thought math was hard) Respect to TED-ED and all the Musicians.
1)-try sight reading simplified bach chorales (start with playing 2 voices only, mainly S and B, increase difficulty as you get better). -Sight read parts of mozart, haydn sonatas, chopin waltzes or other simple pieces so you're familiar with reading chords as blocks, not individual notes. -Play slowly first. It's okay to make some mistakes, but don't stop and correct yourself. Keep going. Just make sure if you made too much mistakes reduce the difficulty or lower the tempo. 2) eventually you'll be ready to try sight read more difficult or pieces of other genre (ragtime, etc.) Remember to spare AT LEAST 30 min each day for sight reading. It'll take years but at the end it will be very rewarding.
i'm so happy u made this video! I bought my very first keyboard and since I'm a beginner I'm quite unfamiliar with sheet music, but it's so fascinating. The harder it looks, the more inspired I am to be able to read it and play it.
the only way to learn sight reading is to practice sight reading. It's because being able to sight read has to do with connecting a note with a muscular movement, and not a pitch. You have to teach your body that.
I'm a piano player, and you've approved! Lots of people on the internet does not check their facts when it comes to music, but this is a great explanation of how notes work, well done!
I've played music for 25 years, including piano, violin, guitar, and drums. I thought it was a great introduction to written music, and something I can use with my students. Always good to look at different ways to learn music and the terminology. Thanks TED-Ed!
Anyone else kinda bothered by 4:20? As a person who can't read notes you get the impression the notes that are pictured represent the music played, when in reality the music played is completely different to the notes pictured.
@@gabrielam.7681 watch out on your technique to prevent injuries. Play exercises at least 10mins a day (hanon, czerny, etc). sight read for 30min a day, then work on your perferred piece/project for 20 min. This amounts to 1hr each day. You should at least practice this much. If you got more time just scale the session as needed. If you're really new and had no experience before, try finishing one of those all in one piano books (usually for kids). They contain beginner explanations, how to read, etc. After that then go to my recommended schedule
This made me realize that I have never grasped the idea of not being able to read music before. I take it for granted and I should be more thoughtful to others who might not have had the same experiences as I.
Does it irritate any one else that at around 4:35 the notes shown and the notes sounded are completely DIFFERENT???? Like, it shows Do, Ti, La, Sol; Do, Ti, La, Sol (or the descending top four pitches of a C major scale), but the music being played as those notes are shown isn't even in that same scale.
Ferran Dimple yeah, it's in C major, so in Solfege it's Do, Ti, La, Sol as in a descending scale. So, because it's a C major scale, C is Do, B is Ti, A is La, G is Sol and so on.
I live in china and recently decided to learn how to play the piano. My teacher speaks very little English and I’m blindly making my way through, so this video explanation was well needed! ❤️
Even though I've been playing trumpet for 5 years, singing for 3 years, and playing piano for about 1 year I still learned something. SINCE WHEN IS THERE AN ALTO CLEF?!
Nice, basic lesson on music. I first learned this back in elementary school...back when they funded it. Sad to think not every kid these days learns the basics early on. Learning a musical instrument has been proven to make kids smarter & learn better. America, our kids NEED music! Even if they aspire to play Black Metal! ;D
This is very well done. I was going to vote for it but the section in 4:23 and beyond where the pitches of the rhythms are played of "Joyful, Joyful" with the wrong pitches drove me a bit crazy. Very confusing for new musicians to hear notes that should go up and then notated as down the staff instead. Please fix this and it would be awesome.
0:11 i get that for some languages, they read from right to left or up to down. but for music sheets, this is my first time seeing it being read from right to left
As a drummer, I just study the sheet and then memorize what I have to play. xD I also played piano for years and I never got used to sight reading. Lot of respect to everyone that can regardless of instrument!
Big respect to you! I'm glad you can at least play drums, I can't play any instrument. Yet I really like the music of the piano and I want to learn it once, it only costs a piano a lot and of course it takes time.
@@imabagel7382 thanks for the reply. btw, do you happen to know a song something similar to this but was played on electric guitar? All I can remember is there is a word "rock" on the title of the song and its the same sound on @4:45
4:23 One:why did I know they would use ode to joy. Two: I have played piano for 12 years and organ for 2 yet i'm still watching this Three: I love how they just spent time trying to explain rhythm and pitch, only to get both completely wrong right after
Even having been a musician for 20 years, and having read music for 15 years, I watched through all the 5min and 24 seconds, for I found it really great the condensed explanation. I got to the comments to see how the non-music readers were reacting, and it was pretty interesting most of people are music-readers. Pretty interesting how the non-readers found it easier to start by watching this video. Great job all over! 👏👏👏
Mate im not gonna lie this is one of the best bigginer guids to music in the least a mount of time, if only i found this a few years back when i sarted as a musician XD
Ezequiel Tomaselli Composición as a non music player and just listening to this for homework, I didn’t pick this up at first then I listened to it again and you are absolutely right!!
As far as I know, one is American English while the latter is Commonwealth English or British English. Both words are correct for meaning the same thing though
My music teacher used to say “what goes on the line Every Good Boy Does Fine and what goes in the space FACE goes in the space” and that the only reason why I still know how to read music
Decent tutorial. HOWEVER at around 4:20 you are showing descending quarter notes while playing ascending notes (taken from a Beethoven's Ode to Joy). Why confuse the issue for people who are just learning to read music? You really should edit the sounds to correspond with the written notes. Up until this point I thought the video was very clear and straight forward.
im literally learning how to read music for no reason right now while a stack of homework is judging me from across my desk
I Can relate!
I need to have a fully functional website built by Monday morning and I’m here right now...
same but with my biology and chemistry exam tomorrow :)
Same but I have nothing to do :)
Wow, never thought I had a lot of people to relate to !!
If music notation was taught in grammar school side by side with regular language instruction, by high school we would all be reading music as naturally as the newspaper, and the news might have a better sound to it.
Music theory is actually taught as an option here since elementary for a few years and then as an option in junior high and high school.
“Here” is Canada by the way.
@@AltPeachStudy that's great. I wish every country includes music as a necessary subject for school children. Optional if not mandatory.
I recently started a program at a Montessori school where students can choose to be in any club they want. From Music, Medical, Taekwondo, art n craft, swimming, sewing, cooking etc.
I teach students who opted for music. They are between 4 to 8 years of age and are little bundles of Joy.
Best wishes to you from Nagaland.
@William Kircher that's true. But out here, we take lesser fee compared to actual music schools where individual classes are given. The parents can choose other clubs if they cannot afford another 15 to 20 dollars a month.
It is where I live. The result: we all messed around in class and forgot everything we learned by the time high school rolled around. You can’t force kids to learn something they don’t necessarily care about, because it just won’t stick.
Just remember to practice 40 hours a day and you'll get it!
Ariana Conner oh ok... Hey wait a minute!
LING LING!!!!
Yeeeesss ling ling
Ling ling :))
Ling ling. Uhmm wait, what's a ling ling? 🤔
"All Japanese children can speak Japanese" - a VERY hard language, yet children master it because they are taught that to do so is a happy and natural part of life. They can be taught that music is a happy and natural part of life, and master it from a young age. For that matter, they can be taught that love, respect, joy in learning and peace are happy and natural parts of human life. Children can learn anything if we present it to them as a natural and desireable part of life. Thank you Dr. Suzuki, you are loved!
Even if you're old, it's never too late
@@midigenzI agree!!
Comparing it to Chinese kids would make more sense. Chinese is harder and average Chinese kids take higher educational classes than Japanese. Making happiness more necessary for the Chinese
@@dave4342
Or French.
Most ppl dont know this so it doesnt matter@@dave4342
When you can actually read music but then you're just here because you're curious about what others think
Me too
Yeah
Exactly
True
I was curios to see if they will make a mistake.
As a musician myself, I can't believe I've never simplified music like this. I mean, this is a lot simpler than how basic music theory showed it to me.
yep
I don't know poop about music theory. But I do play instruments. So this is all I know about it really. And some other stuff to do with chords.
Seemed pretty standard to me
i feel like 80% of the people watching this are musicians who actually read music
lol same
TaylorsOfficialMusic true for me xd
TaylorsOfficialMusic me😂
TaylorsOfficialMusic yes - I'm not sure why
I think you would be correct. x'D
I've been studying music in its different forms, choral, piano, modern, etc, for little over 20 years and this is such a fascinating video for explaining music in its most rudimentary form. Such a good introduction for anyone wanting to take up music as a hobby.
Me: is a musician who fluently reads music
Also me: watches the entire video
And cries at the 4:22 part 🤣🤣
very much yes
I've been in the same loop of coming back to these kinds of videos for years hoping it'll click. I feel like it's just trying to be confusing at this point. 😂
any tips or guides you can give to a beginner like me? One of my goals this year is to learn sheet music
Haha me too
4:22 super distracting that the pitches don't match the notes
That drove me CRAZY too!
Oh man, didn't even catch that!
I knoooow! I don't even read music that well (stopped playing piano many years ago) and yet I still caught it and it bothers me
Why is that? Starting at LA and not DO.
No kidding!
thought this would help me sight read like a legend...
I thought too
Just turn the piece sheet to the right to landscape then the lines and spaces match up to the notes. Hope it helps!
You're not the only one disappointed
If you want easy results with little to no effort, you should find a hobby other than music...
What?
The reason so many of us here already know how to read music is because we are music teachers, and we are always looking for an informative and well-made resource. Unfortunately, this isn't one, for all the reasons others have already mentioned. I can't imagine that a single inexperienced person watching this would get to the end and feel like they are ready to take a simple piece of music and start figuring it out.
I agree but for someone like myself who had forgotten how to read music and needed a "refresher" so to speak, this was a great vid. One can learn music in just one week if they dedicate 1 hour a day. I say this from experience as when I first learned I never picked up an instrument in my life yet my music teacher, Mr. Audi, taught me something as complicated as this in literally one week. It took me about a year to "truly" grasp sight reading and about two to "master" it, AND EVEN THEN I was not perfect or anything[but that's porbably me being hard on myself. I could never play a piece to "perfection" IMO even though I did earn awards...it's just one of those things. lol
Beethoven: happy face
Justin beiber: face drops
😂 Yeah I noticed lol
Dont diss me but pop music do consist of like 5 notes for 3 minutes. So i could imagine why his face dropped reading Beethoven 😂
😄😄😄😄
@@arombell2259 me playing the same 4 note motive over again in Beethoven’s 5th and reading this 😅😂
@@moriahwenzel888 well just a generalization, there are always exceptions so don't mind :)
Why am I watching this? I've played mayonnaise for most of my life.
Is mayonnaise an instrument?
🤣😂
This is the best comment lol
You deserve praise 😂
I don’t get it...
Yt Yt It’s what Patrick said on Spongebob
Teacher: What comes after the letter G
Student: H
Musicians: A
Nah man G# 🤣
@@cherryotter nah A flat
lol
I'm going with G sharp
@@catherineliu8039 No. Bbb.
Kudos from a musician who plays by ear. You accomplished a lot in a short time. Thanks!
And I thought Math equations were hard... my respects to all musicians.
Once you get it, you can read it as fast as a book !
Zack Lunas See, the thing is this is comparable to elementary school math
When it comes to actual compositions like classical music or jazz you’re starting to get to highschool level, where you can read the music but probably have a hard time playing certain rhythms by yourself an instant (eg polyrhytms).
And then there’s genres like math rock or really complex jazz music in where you sometimes don’t even exactly know which note comes before which, also you have to follow rules cause there’s way more things than just the stuff in the video. There can be changing pace, having to play 2 melodies with one hand, while still playing another rhythm with your other hand (for piano at least). There’s key signatures (comparable to mathematical rules where you have to keep an order for something) and signs that will remove these.
Then there’s intonation, dynamics, etc. this video is literally like teaching basic maths like addition, division, multiplication, subtraction and bracket rules
Math is harder :)
If you practice you’ll get it
It's easy actually, there are tricks on how to memorize which pitch is in which line hahaha😂 and also practice, everything gets easier when you practice!😊💜
Why am I watching this. I literally graduated music school.
Nerd
Lol, maybe because you thought It would give a different perspective on musical reading?
Omg, same
Cuuuuteeee
Ms Keisha, i know right as well lol
i love how the yellow guy just dyed a bit inside when he was called justin beaber
5:05 yeah that was funny.
Uh, u spelt it wrong
Dyed what color?
@@santanuchowdhury609
Didn't capitalize the I, used the wrong homophone of die/dye, and both failed to capitalize Bieber's name and spelled it wrong...
that's kinda cyber bullying
I'm actually a musician and this is the best tutorial I've ever seen for people who want to learn how to play or read music.It's musician approved.
Science professors while teaching science: Come on, this is not music theory.
Musicians while teaching music theory: Come on, this is not rocket science.
*confused noises*
Have science professors ever actually said that before or is it just a meme
Our physicsteacher studied physics math and music. He said that he chose music aswell because math and physics werent enough of a challenge for him. Then he proceeded to talk with the musicians in our class for like 15 minutes or so
and this video proved that rocket science is simpler XD
Me studying both "well actually'
lol
4:22
Am I the only person so pissed off that sounds don't equal notes?
You noticed too?
The song being played was "Ode to Joy" and the music notes shown were not corresponding at all. Lol.
at least they got the last four notes matching the pitches of the audio
Same here!! Lol
I was searching for that comment, thought I couldn't be the only one noticing it haha
Yeah, I had to listen to it a few times to make sure I wasn't going mad. Like whut?
I've always been very intrigued what sheet music looks like to someone who doesn't know how to read it. Like I was taught at a very young age how to read music so now I look at it and it feels the same as simply reading a word. But I am curious what it is like to look at a chord and have no idea what it means.
It's a lot like trying to read another language to me. I have to go word-by-word (or note-by-note) and translate that to what I play on the piano.
Ive played a bit of guitar, and there are some songs with "tab" versions. Basicaly 6 lines that represent each string, and numbers to show where on each string to play. When I look at sheet music, I think it looks like a different form of tab, even if its not the same thing. I know that up on sheet music means higher, and down is lower, and with simple stuff I can sortof guess what it might sound like but otherwise im a bit clueless
Sheet notes look like a reflection of my own incapabality to read and it feels like the notes are looking down on me for not understanding them (especially the high ones). I have a hate-love relationship with understanding music.
I just got casted into a musical and I’ve never seen any sheet music really.. and I’m kinda struggling and nervous that I’m not going to understand the beats and whenever he says a fancy music word :’)
Mandarin. It makes sense to someone, just not me right now.
I love how everyone who’s watching this right now already knows how to read music
I dont know how to read music
@@thecleaningauthority193 shut up. you already know how to read music since you born.
Everybody gangster 'til evidently, you're not musically literate... 🤫🤥😷👌🇬🇧
@@coolasf1527 what?
I've never read music in my life
Why would you put beiber and Beethoven in the same sentence?
So that the guy could smile when he was Beethoven, but frown when he was Bieber.
beiber sings, but beethoven didn't sing. they know music.
Look again at your sentence to figure out.
jack amiegbe beiberhoven
Bieber* rather Briber or Beaver or Briber or bewilder...... thanks
When a five minute video explains better than your teacher...
RIGHT!
So true
Then get a new teacher
hey i know you
I totally agree with you 😆
As someone who has always wanted to learn to read music, this is incredibly helpful. Thank you!
You can do it! It takes practice but it’s a beautiful skill to have :)
The musicians who see this video in their recommended must have thought, "What are you trying to tell me RUclips?"
We thought “oh finally something useful”
People still search things up you know.
I'm just annoyed because I have seen this video at least 3 times in the last 3 years and all 3 times where from my band director
why am I watching this ? I've played piano for seven years....
Same, i've played for 13 years and I think I'm here just to see if he is full of crap or not XD
River Song so what was your opinion?
I asked before I watched. A very basic overview
I was kinda hoping there would be a music joke somewhere in the video.... 6/10, not enough humor
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4:22: plays ode to joy
also 4:22: the notes are just descending quavers
the musicians watching: hmm... InTeReStInG
hello fellow twosetter!! :)))
Hurts specially those who already read some, but without fluency, and thought they could improve their perspective by watching this video. I call this counter-educational.
Ikr
Do it wasn’t only me.......
TWOSETTERS UNITE
I'm high functioning autistic and throughout middle and high school both my choir and band teachers to no avail tried to teach me how to read sheet music. I felt like I couldn't physically translate the notes to the sounds like symbols couldn't tell me what sound to play and how to play it exactly. This video helped me understand that better. Thank you.
the most difficult part of music is writing the treble clef
Well let me teach you about reading a C clef
I know right, those causes me a lot of treble and time
@@timmerbell5217 luckily we only use alto and tenor(and I play alto so that's half the battle) but I have to learn the other ones so theyguve me trouble
It's in fact artistic
It's even hard just to draw the quarter rest lol 😂
"If you have so many ledger line it gets confusing you need a new clef"
Flute players laugh hysterically
_laughs and then cries in ledger lines_
*When there are more ledger lines than actual barlines*
yeah I know how that feels, 😞 that hurt 😅
When your band director makes you play piccolo 🥲
Perhaps you should have said a new clef or an 8va? lol
As a music teacher, it's always interesting to hear other teachers take on explaining musical topics. Great video (apart from the written vs sounding pitch at 4:22 many have already commented on)!
another mistake at the minute 4:42 is that the sharps are in the wrong position, they would be alright if there was a tremble cleff, but there's the bass one and the sharps should be on the 4th line and 2nd space
I don't know if I wrote this right but English isn't my first language so...
Ok that's it I'm gonna go practice
&Dudldhoo24, yes they put an accidental in a wrong position. It should be in the 4th line which is "F" to make it an "F#" since the key signature tells us that it is in Dmajor scale.
Came here to say this
THIS BOTHERED ME
PAIN. I feel like creator definitely trolled us all.
I never had any background with music but with the help and teaching of our choir master in Church, we learned how to read music. Thru the years, we just learn how to sing a new piece by just reading the notes even without the instrument.
How funny that the comments section are filled by people who know how to read music while I'm here trying to cope up 😂 i hope i can read notes too and play a piano 😭
Red Strawberries you’ll get there if you try
Dont worry it's really easy just takes time to get used to remeber
You. Can. DO IT! It's not that hard if you practice!
You can!
Same!
Why am I here? Ive literally been playing [Instrument] for [any number between 7-92] years
93 years?
Ikr😂😂😂😂
Piano, 12 years
Piano 6 years
Seeing your profile pic i dont think youre that much age
4:22 If you're going to teach people how to read music, you should play what's written.
Ikr
BOTHERS ME SO MUCH
Absolutely! Especially if you expect a source to be credible!
This has bothered me for years.
This was such an eye opener. I know nothing about music but this explained so much that seemed so complicated about music. Id love to see another video explaining what on earth is a "minor" vs "major", "harmony", "instrumentation", "transposition", etc.
A minor key sounds much darker than a major key. Simply, sad songs would be in minor key while a happy song is in major key. Harmony is the background of the music. It is the opposite of the melody, the main sequence of notes that you’d hear the most. Transposition is when you take a song in a certain key (ex. C major) and turn it into a different key (ex. F major).
I don’t know what instrumentation is lmao
Looking for something to share with students, this is really nice. I was surprised at 4:20 though, when the tune used to illustrate quarter note rhythms was different than what was written on the staff. Easy thing to overlook but it would have been nice if the pitch matched what was being played. Not matching could be confusing to a novice who is trying to learn from this video. Thanks for making the video, though!
THIS BOTHERED ME SO MUCH
@@Abrahambinzz me too.
For real. Match your notes, dude.
I guess history has changed in 9 years
This taught me more about music than my Choral teacher taught me in 4 years... Give me more, please.
Wow, directors should be on top of that, it makes starting new music much easier. In 7th grade my choir director taught us this and accidentals pretty well in a couple weeks only going over it once or twice a week.
Same here its a joke how easy it is when explained correctly. At saying that im certainly more interested now than i was then. Maybe its more to do with paying attention :)
what the fuck is wrong with your teacher, they should get fired
I don't know why I watched because I know to read music.
*this
same here xD
+Karol Szymczyk same
sameeeeee ! -.-
Hahahahahahahaha i just thought the exact same thing
This video in 5 minutes has taught me more about music than 10 years of school.
Do English-speakers really learn notes in the order A B C D E F G ? This seems so strange to me because as a French I learnt Do Ré Mi Fa Sol La Si which is the equivalent of C D E F G A B.
Yoodj C.B Ayy dude, long story. Read about Gallic-Roman Gregorian Chants
do you sing or play an instrument e.g. violin
Redheadedmusician talking to me? idk why but if u reply to someone's comment i get the notification too damn.
Simone Spadoni sry, im replying to Yoodj. your name would come before my reply if i was replying to you. :)
Redheadedmusician oh thank you
Best part about it: The melody played at 4:22 is 'Freude, schöner Götterfunken' from Beethovens 5th Symphony. But the notes show the first half of a C Major scale downwards...
* 9th
It's also in D not C like in the video.
Matthew Hume Oh... f**k, that's what I meant to write but I tipped the wrong one.
1412mariLU Song at 4:22 sounds like ode to joy
You're correct. Beethoven's 9th Symphony is Ode to Joy.
That really annoyed me in the video
I thought that this would teach me hacks to sightreading.
in 5 minutes?
help
im trying to pass level 10 RCM piano exam
REEEEEEEE
@@vivianniu3493 good luck pal, YOU GOT THIS!
Honestly same. I got dissapointed very quickly... 😅
Me too hahahahhaha
Omg thank you so much Music taught in school makes it so complex and overdone I was worried I'm gonna fail something easy as music. You'll guys just simplified two years worth of overdoing teaching into 5 minutes.(And I thought math was hard) Respect to TED-ED and all the Musicians.
1)-try sight reading simplified bach chorales (start with playing 2 voices only, mainly S and B, increase difficulty as you get better). -Sight read parts of mozart, haydn sonatas, chopin waltzes or other simple pieces so you're familiar with reading chords as blocks, not individual notes.
-Play slowly first. It's okay to make some mistakes, but don't stop and correct yourself. Keep going. Just make sure if you made too much mistakes reduce the difficulty or lower the tempo.
2) eventually you'll be ready to try sight read more difficult or pieces of other genre (ragtime, etc.) Remember to spare AT LEAST 30 min each day for sight reading. It'll take years but at the end it will be very rewarding.
Years??? Like how many to be exact
@@thaliaquintero8140 13 years 5 months and 7 days. On the 12th hour of the night you'll hear a bell in the distance. That's when you know it is done.
@ThaJay lol.
Beats are all the same length
Me-*Laughs in accelorando, then ritardando*
laughs in rubato
Haaaaa Haaaa Haaa Haa Ha Haa Haaa Haaaa Haaaaa
Laugh in fermata
@@fortuntaniegra3879 diminuendo doesn't affect the length of a note.
Fortun Taniegra diminuendo affects volume (it tells u to gradually get quieter)
LOL TED-Ed's humor on Bieber and Beethoven
reminds me to ERB
+1corn THEY'RE VILLAGERS!!!
Thats a very life like picture of bieber showing what he actually is - a prick with hair on top
Mr. Bieber and Dr. Trayaurus
+Joseph Kim YASS
i'm so happy u made this video! I bought my very first keyboard and since I'm a beginner I'm quite unfamiliar with sheet music, but it's so fascinating. The harder it looks, the more inspired I am to be able to read it and play it.
I wonder if you got over the first bump .
That moment when you thought this was about sight reading, but you learned this stuff 4 years ago :/
Nekky Singz SAAAME... except this is six-seven years old stuff for me
15 years ago...
the only way to learn sight reading is to practice sight reading. It's because being able to sight read has to do with connecting a note with a muscular movement, and not a pitch. You have to teach your body that.
- Random person with a cat as their channel icon - i know right!
Hmm - teaching how to read music, then plays a melody that doesn't correspond to what is actually played.
Helpful.
lol. Yes, I did enjoy the video but I noticed that as well.
was it the Ode To Joy part?
@@ejmtv3 Yes :D
I was so consufed too like what happened
The sheet music they showed was the bassline of Canon in D, but they put the sharps where they would be for the treble clef (not the bass clef)
"....or Justin Bieber!!" at the end just cracked me up!
Justin Bieber has yet to sing beethoven classical music.
lol
I know! I loved how the little guy looked disappointed 😂
me too ...
I love how the animation frowns after he says that
I'm a piano player, and you've approved! Lots of people on the internet does not check their facts when it comes to music, but this is a great explanation of how notes work, well done!
Same
I've played music for 25 years, including piano, violin, guitar, and drums. I thought it was a great introduction to written music, and something I can use with my students. Always good to look at different ways to learn music and the terminology. Thanks TED-Ed!
When the key signature for Canon in D has the sharps in the right place for treble clef......but it shows the part for cello in bass clef......
no
no
no
nope
NNOPE
THAT PIECE IS CURSED
@@vivianniu3493hi my name lsabella Cortes
Justin Bieber thinks a beat is a brand of headphones
you don't get famous as a musician/singer without learning music.
this video lesson is not meant for singer that doesn't play piano. a 2-year-old uses his vocal cord to make sound.
he can play 4 instruments so im guessing he can read music alright
***** thats what we call presumptions, my friend
***** i guess we'll never know
i learned more useful things here than an entire semester of Choir
It’s funny but it’s not funny 😭
Literally same 😭
Anyone else kinda bothered by 4:20? As a person who can't read notes you get the impression the notes that are pictured represent the music played, when in reality the music played is completely different to the notes pictured.
YES
sunburst behindtheclouds the notes they put at 4 20 are Wrong what u see irl is what u get if it goes up so does the note
I can't read em, but I know there's something wrong
sunburst behindtheclouds omg yes this bothered me soooo much
Yess, it bothers me quite a bit! It was probably just a careless animation error, though, or maybe the animator can't read music. =)
90% comments
"I went to a musical school"
"Why youtube recommended me this?"
"I practiclly sweat music"
10% comments
Like this
Like this
Szin's Hamilton profil picture xd?
I'm learning to play the keyboard by myself with nothing but youtube videos and apps (I know nothing about music)
Any tips?
Yup hahah
@@gabrielam.7681 watch out on your technique to prevent injuries. Play exercises at least 10mins a day (hanon, czerny, etc). sight read for 30min a day, then work on your perferred piece/project for 20 min. This amounts to 1hr each day. You should at least practice this much. If you got more time just scale the session as needed. If you're really new and had no experience before, try finishing one of those all in one piano books (usually for kids). They contain beginner explanations, how to read, etc. After that then go to my recommended schedule
this video teach me how to read note in under 6 minutes that middle school fail to do even after 3 years
really says a lot about the education system
にゃあエイリアンMeowAlien engrish pls
at least u have musical education in your country from young age, i wish i had this opportunity as a child
ナビイ Wait you’re in Japan and there’s no music teachers for you? Half my music books are from Japan!
@@AltPeachStudy I'm not in Japan, I'm an asian-brazilian (:
This made me realize that I have never grasped the idea of not being able to read music before. I take it for granted and I should be more thoughtful to others who might not have had the same experiences as I.
Does it irritate any one else that at around 4:35 the notes shown and the notes sounded are completely DIFFERENT????
Like, it shows Do, Ti, La, Sol; Do, Ti, La, Sol (or the descending top four pitches of a C major scale), but the music being played as those notes are shown isn't even in that same scale.
Yeah, exactly.
Yes that bugged me haha.
+higurashikai09 "Ti"?
Ferran Dimple yeah, it's in C major, so in Solfege it's Do, Ti, La, Sol as in a descending scale. So, because it's a C major scale, C is Do, B is Ti, A is La, G is Sol and so on.
It's not about the chords haha it's just that I had never heard Ti instead of Si
4:22 : exists
me: saCReLigIoUs
Seriously though
Yeah
INTERESTING!
I cringed so hard at that part haha
it shows a descending contour but plays Beethoven's 9th symphony
why am I watching this, I don't even play an instrument
those who play an instrument dont need to watch this
Hashirama Senju well some people play completely by ear
SAME !
That's why you're watching, because maybe you will.
***** yeah. Maybe.
I live in china and recently decided to learn how to play the piano. My teacher speaks very little English and I’m blindly making my way through, so this video explanation was well needed! ❤️
Even though I've been playing trumpet for 5 years, singing for 3 years, and playing piano for about 1 year I still learned something.
SINCE WHEN IS THERE AN ALTO CLEF?!
+Aforgomon Viola clef right?
+Helen Yesberg Yeah. You can only play the alto clef of the viola... I think.
+Aforgomon It's for the viola
the alto clef is for the viola, the mandola, and a few other variations of violas and trombones
+TDrama77 Productions actually it works for almost every instrument.
Nice, basic lesson on music. I first learned this back in elementary school...back when they funded it. Sad to think not every kid these days learns the basics early on. Learning a musical instrument has been proven to make kids smarter & learn better. America, our kids NEED music!
Even if they aspire to play Black Metal!
;D
Why did I watch this? I've been playing flute for 6 years.
Alex same!
most of us r musicians
We’re just here to see what others think
Thanks for this well composed lesson. I am about to try and teach a young student to read & write. So this was a true gift. Thank you.
I need this the most
You need what?
I see you everywhere how?
@@zeelota29 bot
RUclips should ban these bots.
@@tajitkumar37 what
Wait until they find out that you can change time signatures in the middle of a piece
Or Keys, or tempo, or speed, or loudness, or stops, or repeats.
@@diakounknown1225 or pretty much everything, really.
and something called crescendo
and i thought i would cry only when i did calculus
Just add some stravinsky there
Would be nice to tell everyone the staff is a snapshot of the piano keyboard standing on its side
🤔😁😄😷👍
Mind effing blown!!!!
Yo wtf
It’s not.
@@cisium1184 ruclips.net/video/ZPmZx1BT8s0/видео.html
WE NEEDED THIS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL- amazing, showstoppingly instructive animation, beautiful to see. "It sounds like this-Tick... Tick"
Wow... I really wish I had this when I was in high school. I would have never given up
There’s nothing special here. What did you have in high school?
Nah, your teacher was just awful if this video was better than their instruction.
This is very well done. I was going to vote for it but the section in 4:23 and beyond where the pitches of the rhythms are played of "Joyful, Joyful" with the wrong pitches drove me a bit crazy. Very confusing for new musicians to hear notes that should go up and then notated as down the staff instead. Please fix this and it would be awesome.
I agree. I was incredible confused at first.
Oh, thank God, For a minute, I thought that my ear was worse than I thought.
Absolutely. Otherwise a great vid, but the first piece of music they played was actually wrong. Unforgivable error!
I didn't even recognize it as a piece. I just thought it was a random example.
Study music notation for a long time, and you too could be as disconcerted as I was by the key signature at 04:44.
4:45 *cellists have left the chat*
0:11 i get that for some languages, they read from right to left or up to down. but for music sheets, this is my first time seeing it being read from right to left
Hahhahaha
As a drummer, I just study the sheet and then memorize what I have to play. xD
I also played piano for years and I never got used to sight reading. Lot of respect to everyone that can regardless of instrument!
In college, it's back to the piano. Even for drum majors.
Big respect to you! I'm glad you can at least play drums, I can't play any instrument. Yet I really like the music of the piano and I want to learn it once, it only costs a piano a lot and of course it takes time.
"We use something called a clef..."
"A clef is a *weird looking figure* placed in the very beginning of the staff..."
- Tim Hansen
2:13
*Dies in Alto and Tenor clef*
Ah yes, Viola clef
Great definitions
4:45
Every cellist in the audience died a little inside hearing that
may I ask what is the title of the song?
Pachelbel Canon in d
@@imabagel7382 thanks for the reply. btw, do you happen to know a song something similar to this but was played on electric guitar? All I can remember is there is a word "rock" on the title of the song and its the same sound on @4:45
Unfortunately no 😐
JC Medina is it Memories by Maroon 5? It has a similar sound
I was more interested and learned more in a 5 minute video than several years of going to school.
Justin Beber cannot read sheet music.
OldasTheyAre He can't even play music
yeah , do you really think that he goes on concerts without ANY work done ? you guys are judgemental ,
he won regional singing competition and so
OldasTheyAre
he plays guitar paino and drums
he can
4:23
One:why did I know they would use ode to joy.
Two: I have played piano for 12 years and organ for 2 yet i'm still watching this
Three: I love how they just spent time trying to explain rhythm and pitch, only to get both completely wrong right after
Even having been a musician for 20 years, and having read music for 15 years, I watched through all the 5min and 24 seconds, for I found it really great the condensed explanation.
I got to the comments to see how the non-music readers were reacting, and it was pretty interesting most of people are music-readers.
Pretty interesting how the non-readers found it easier to start by watching this video.
Great job all over! 👏👏👏
Wait, you've been a musician for 20 years, but have only read music for 15??
@@ayhahga727 No, I've been a musician for 20 days and have read music for 30 years! Dã
Mate im not gonna lie this is one of the best bigginer guids to music in the least a mount of time, if only i found this a few years back when i sarted as a musician XD
4:34 the written melody descends but the melody in the video ascends, my mind exploded, why do you do that???
The melody you hear is Ode To Joy, but the melody that is displayed is C B A G. As someone who knows some stuff about music this triggered me so hard
Yeah I know, It triggered me too hahaha I also study music at the university (my english is kinda bad)
Ezequiel Tomaselli Composición Ikr? And they also did a Bass Clef with the Key Signature of a Treble clef.
Ezequiel Tomaselli Composición as a non music player and just listening to this for homework, I didn’t pick this up at first then I listened to it again and you are absolutely right!!
Bar?? Ive called it a measure my whole life!
Eh, Potato Potahto, either one works.
As far as I know, one is American English while the latter is Commonwealth English or British English. Both words are correct for meaning the same thing though
In french it is : *mesure*
I’ve called it a [ta:kt] whole my life😏
i thought a measure was 4 bars
comparing Justin Bieber to Beethoven is pure sacrilege.
+Landon Balk #juvenoia
+Jacob Scholte nah
Beethoven wasn't so great! Have you ever seen Beethoven on a bubblegum card?
+Philip Hoy I love the irony... which I really hope, am not misinterpreting into this...
+xXnaDilXx yeah, it's a quote from A Charlie Brown Christmas haha
My music teacher used to say “what goes on the line Every Good Boy Does Fine and what goes in the space FACE goes in the space” and that the only reason why I still know how to read music
NOOOO AT THE END THE NOTES THEY PLAYED DIDNT CORRESPOND WITH WHAT WAS ACTUALLY WRITTEN
You played?
Ikr, I was so frustrated by that
RIGHT
And the sharps weren't at the good place...
Or maybe it wasn't the good clef...
Decent tutorial. HOWEVER at around 4:20 you are showing descending quarter notes while playing ascending notes (taken from a Beethoven's Ode to Joy). Why confuse the issue for people who are just learning to read music? You really should edit the sounds to correspond with the written notes. Up until this point I thought the video was very clear and straight forward.
right, there aren't notes to this melody, even melody and notes go in another direction ;_; harmful...
There is a reason why they did that on 420 ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°
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ya and the space between bar line to bar line isnt called "bar" its called a measure
Those terms are actually both used by musicians and music teachers.
4:22 that hurt me in a way it shouldnt have.... let me know if you noticed it too
This 5 minute and 23 seconds video easily explained my 7 years of trying to understand music
Learning how to read music is easy, learning musical language on the other hand...
rhythms are what screw me up, I've gotten so used to midi
Omg you haven't even lied about that
This was a good refresher. I haven't played the piano in years and I want to start again. C=
Do it!
Ugghhhhh
4:20 bothers me so much
Not the notes at all.
And also, since when can Beiber read music!!!! 😂
Yes, that really bothered me, too!! Why would they do that!?
what?? im confused
@@meredithwallace4043 the notes that were written in the demostration at 4:20 didn't match the notes that were played.
They started to play the notes to what, ode to joy or something? But then they showed 2 tertachords.
4:20 just meant Beiber was high.
I'm a teacher trying to teach my piano teacher music vocabulary in English. This is the perfect video for me! Thanks!
Beethoven and Bieber are cannot be comparable -.- Beethoven is genius :)
The diifference is that Beethoven is music
+Alice Ding Your Comment and Grammar cannot be comparable.
+SALTY NAT TYPE lol
that's the joke
+Alice Ding That was joke...