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Sheet music assistance please
Hello !
My name is Marianne and was wondering if I can get some guidance. I started Christy’s lessons,hence I have never played an instrument and do not read music. I did print out the music sheets with my lessons but the notes are not labeled and I am having a hard time labeling them as she goes through the lessons. Does anyone know where I can purchase the sheet music with notation to these lessons?
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Her sheet music does not have the notes written on them. I suggest trying to print off some free music practice sheets and learn the notes from them. There are also note reading apps for your phone. Just go slow and steady and it will come to you.
There’s a good series called “Theory Time” which helps learn how to read music. My teacher uses these books with her students. They are geared for children, but the theory is good. I use them also and am an adult.
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Laura..thank you so much for pointing me in the proper direction. I will certainly look these items up. Appreciate your advice!
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Here are those printable sheets. I still use them sometimes to brush up: https://www.prestoitsmusicmagicpublishing.com/music-note-reading
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Hello! Learning to read music for the first time can be tricky. As far as I know, most of Christy-Lyn’s videos are geared toward people who cannot read notes. Having the sheet music can be useful, especially to remind you what part comes next. What I reccomend is naming each section, however you want to do that. Sometimes I think a string of a couple notes sounds like a word, and will call that the “Banana” section, or whatever. I suggest finding a way to label the small sections in your music with memorable names. Then, as you are learning, write the name of the section above your music, to help you remember. Basically, you want your sections to be such that if I told you, “Play the ‘Banana’ section”, you would know exactly what one that is, and be able to play it. Then, use your sheet music to string together the names of the sections, so that you can glance over at it, and know what to play next.
That is one way I help my piano students learn, and it works well. Learning to read notes can be a long process, and you will probably want to be able to be playing harp music your note reading skills are not up to chops with, and this is a great way to begin. Best of luck, and sorry if ^ didn’t make sense. 🙂 -
Hi Marianne,
Basically, most of the harp music you will be learning here is on the Treble Clef. Here are the names of the notes on the Treble Clef:
Middle C is on the little line written under the staff. You can rely on all the red strings on your harp to be the note C. You will need to determine, on your harp, where is Middle C, but any tuning device, while tuning your harp, will tell you which one is Middle C.
Lines on the staff….. E G B D F (Every Good Boy Deserves Fun)
Spaces on the staff… F A C E (spelling “Face”)
If you are reading from the Bass Clef, which would be anything below Middle C, here are the notes on that staff:
Lines on the staff…. G B D F A (Good Boys Deserve Fun Always)
Spaces on the staff… A C E G (All Cows Eat Grass)
On your harp, locate all the red strings… C… You can determine that the string above C will be D, then E, etc, going up the scale. Locate all the blue strings. They are F. The string above the F string will be G, then A, B, etc.
i suggest that you get yourself some lined music manuscript paper and practice writing in the notes as I have shown you. It will get you more familiar with the notes on the sheet music, and you can translate these to the harp as you learn.
I suggest that you stay away from “naming” the notes on the sheet music you are working with, because this will become a crutch, in the long run. You want to be able to actually read the sheet music, even if this means reading it very slowly. You will acquire more speed and ability as you continue.
Reading music is not the elusive task that many people think it is. Especially when you are playing harp, it can be very easy, even when you are playing in keys that require all F notes to be sharp, or all G notes to be sharp, etc. If you have a lever harp, you simply raise the lever for these notes through your harp, and every single time you see an F or a G, when you play it, it will automatically be a sharp. This is not the case for piano, so you are at an advantage here with the harp.
I hope this helped you. Please let me know if I can clarify anything else for you. You will be reading music very easily in no time!
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