I'm not sure how much you know, and how much you don't about reading music, so I'll explain everything for you. I'm sorry if I say something you already know. With this, I hope you can figure out the notes on your own, which would help you later in your music career.
There are two clefs in playing the piano, the treble clef, the swirly one, and the bass clef, the one that looks like a backwards C. The treble clef is the top line, and the bass clef is the bottom line. You play the treble with your right hand, and bass with your left.
This will be your staff, and I'll write in the notes for treble cleff, starting with low C, the middle key on the piano that you probably start on.
I will put the ones in the spaces on the space, and the notes on the lines will be written on the line.
G----%26gt; This note is right above the staff!
___________________F__________________鈥?br>
E
___________________D__________________鈥?br>
C
___________________B__________________鈥?br>
A
__________________ G ______________________________
F
__________________E___________________鈥?br>
D %26lt;--This note is right under the staff on a space.
_C___ %26lt;--this note starts BELOW the staff on a line.
Now, here is BASS CLEF. They use different note names than treble cleff.
___________________A__________________鈥?br>
G
___________________F__________________鈥?br>
E
___________________D__________________鈥?br>
C
__________________ B ______________________________
A
__________________G___________________鈥?br>
I have noticed that the piece of music you chose uses a lot of notes above the staff. Notes always go in the order of ABCDEFGAB...etc, etc. So, when your playing notes above the staff, just go in that order from the note at the top. So, for treble cleff, the top note is G, so a note above that on a ledger line (lines that go above the staff) would be A.
Also, be sure to recoginze key signature. Do you see those two little b's next to the treble clef sign? That means that certain notes are flat. Flat means you play one step below that note. So, for Bb, you would press the black note below B. If there is no black note, you would do the white note below that note. The order of flats goes BEADGCF. Since there are two flats, you would have a Bb and an Eb.
There are sharps as well. This is a step above the note. This is shown with a # sign. So you will press the black note ABOVE the note. The order of sharps goes FCGDAEB.
There are also things called accidentials, where a sharp or flat is put into the music that is not in the key signature. All you do is play it as it comes. There is one important thing to know about accidentials. If there is one at the beginning of the measure, the accidential will continue for the rest of measure. So, if the first note of the measure if an F#, and there are more F's in that measure, all of them will be sharp. Once the measure if over, the F goes back to natural, which means it is not flat or sharp.
Time signature is also important. That is the 4 4 on the right side near the key signature, and the clef sign. This means that are four beats in that measure (the top four), and each beats equals a quarter note (the bottom 4). There are other keysignature, such as 6 8 time. This means there are 6 beats in that measure, and each beat equals an eighth note. So, 5 4 time would be 5 beats in a measure, and each beat would equal a quarter note. This helps you figure out the rythm of the notes.
This music is in 4 4 time, which is extremely common, and easy to understand. Now, each beat= one quarter note. A quarter note is the filled in note with a stem. This will be one beat. A half note is not filled in and has a stem. This equals two beats. A whole note is not filled in, and has no stem. This equals four beats, or a whole measure. An eighth note looks like a quarter note except there is a hooky thing on the top. This is half of a quarter note, so will be half a beat. How fast these notes go depends on how fast it tells you go. At the top, there will be a quarter note and an equal sign with a number. 100 is the speed, which is about moderate speed. Notice that the next section is slightly faster. Sometimes, you will see music and it will tell you moderate, allegro, largo, etc. These tell you how fast the music should go. These three are some of the main ones. Moderate is walking speed, allegro, is faster, and largo, is very slow. You can look the rest up online as you see them.
The last thing I'll mention is dynamics, which means how soft or loud you play. f means forte, which means loud. p, means piano, which means soft. YouNeed Help Reading Piano Sheet Music?
just remeber this:
the lines starting from the bottom ON THE RIGHT HAND are
e
g
b
d
f
and the spaces starting from the bottom are
f
a
c
e
does this help?
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