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How to count bars' rest

Essential symbols to help you navigate sheet music

If you don’t know what to do when you see these signs, you could get lost in the piece of sheet music. It's happened to me during gigs where I'm sight-reading…

This online music course will teach you how to read, write and play rhythms in sheet music easily. Whether you already play piano, play guitar, sing, or are thinking of learning an instrument, you’ll learn to read music faster. 

Play your music more in time and with more confidence and enjoyment!

• Are you learning to play the piano, guitar or drums? 
• Do you drag behind the beat when you’re playing your favourite song? 
• Do you wish your playing had…

Compound time signatures (meters) use a dotted note as the basic beat which can be subdivided into three. The most common compound time signatures are 6/8 (two beats per bar), 9/8 (three beats per bar) and 12/8 (four beats in…

A polyrhythm (cross rhythm) is created when two simultaneous lines of music (eg. the left and right hands playing piano) have different beat lengths (beat durations).  Each line of music has a different number of beats in the bar. The…

• Time signatures (meters) are made up of two numbers on the musical stave, one above the other. 
• The lower number is the chosen unit of measurement (eg. minim, quarter note). 
• The upper number is the number of units per bar. 
• …

In the English language ‘Quarter Note’ means ‘Crotchet’. Both terms describe a single beat in standard musical notation. Rhythm note names in US English and UK English are different. Both are useful for musicians to learn. The table below lists…

Reading music can be overwhelming. But often sheet music looks harder to play than it actually is because it combines the elements of music all at once. The written elements of music are rhythm, pitch, musical expression and the ‘map’.…