Articles in the Sightreading Category
A lot of times, when referring to an interval, people will refer to it as a Number instead of the actual note.
The example is that A B C# D E F# can be written as …
Sibelius 6 has a lot of cool updates. Unboxings are when you open up a product for the first time and video tape it for others to see.
Here we have a number of Sibelius …
Sforzando = when an attack hits hard, diminuendos, and then crescendos… all in one attack
Crescendos = making the music increasingly louder
Tremolos = rapidly attacking the note
Dynamics = mezzo forte, forte, piano, mezzo piano. Indicating how …
Sibelius 6 is the latest installment of the best music engraver around. There are a bunch of new features in this one that my older version didn’t have.
One of them is “Panoramic View”, which allows …
Grace Notes in music represent a note that is played so fast that it doesn’t get a beat. Think of it as a blur.
Some times they’re used in order to allow the sheet music to …
Repeats in music allow you so not have to write the same section of music multiple times. It allows the musician to simply memorize one section and rather than turn a page or continue reading, …
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Ledger Lines allow you to extend the staff both upward and downward in an easy to read way. A ledger line on a Treble Clef can go as far down (even past the bass clef). …
The original is in the staff below. Above is where I circled where the two lines are that a piano player would play. There are two voices, as a result, one if for the left …
Hi! I just had a question about Eighth Rests. I am trying to learn how to play The Portrait from the Titanic, and there are a lot of Eighth Rests directly above another note. What …
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Modulation is the idea of changing keys in a song. Learn more here!
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All those weird symbols in Music Explained!
This is from my Revision 3 Beta Show which is along side the Revision 3 Networks channels. …
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What are Octaves?
This video will help!. Essentially, Octaves are the idea of a same note being 12 semitones higher.
What’s a semi-tone?
A semi-tone is a half step. So a half step from A is A#, and …
