This ONE Trick Makes Reading Music WAY Easier

[@teedtad2534]

She explains everything so SIMPLE just cannot go wrong because the way she teaches music 🎵🎶🎵🎶 is NO longer a mystery to me as a dummy! I enjoy her videos 😍🥰🥰 always! Bless this woman!! I will replay her videos again and again!!

[@robertakerman3570]

@teedtad2534 Greetings, We aren't dummies, simply never informed. I wouldn't take childhood lessons because I wanted to go out & play. Knowing now-I made a foolish error(practice can be fun too).

[@James333-n2q]

I’ve scoured the internet for helpful ways of reading music, I’ve tried to find ways myself of seeing patterns that maybe helpful to me ..like ABC, B being the middle line( for some reason putting the notes in threes, for me, helps the memory) But I’ve only seen 4 of your videos and each one is a revelation. The techniques to help people learn the piano are just so practical and motivating.. it keeps the joy bubbling away rather than frustration and boredom. Many many thanks.. you have found your forte.

[@francismalekar5558]

Halo v.young lady madam, I much appreciated your teaching, I have not cleared 8th&16th notes since 2 yrs.but today much cleared. Teached by hands, keyboard. I much thankful to God bless u.more.

[@jezm1703]

Been playing for a quite a while and it's only recently that I started to recognise intervals on the staff. Also improvising left hand accompaniments noting the chord symbols. It has really helped my reading. Love this....way to go defo !!!

[@Et1979ienne]

Using the interval method of reading music is a fantastic idea! I've been studying for two years and have never heard of this. Thank you Kaitlyn!

[@yudipitre5720]

This was awesome I have never seen on tube anyone explain it like that. Thank you I picked up learning during Covid. Self taught. Then got side track with guitar for 2 yrs. Now I have to start from square one again learning the piano. You really are a good teacher.

[@dricka49221]

I started out playing on the organ as well as the piano, so I started chording right from the start and learned to improvise as well. My trouble spot is notes that are beyond the one line or space above or below the staff. Now that I want to play things like Brahms Waltz Op. 39 #15 in a flat, I have a horrible time trying to read the left-hand/bass notes. When I was in school I played the alto sax (treble cleft) all the way through 12th grade for marching band. But my teacher asked me if I would be willing to play the bassoon (bass cleft) for the concert season. I told her I would do my best but that I needed to quickly learn to read the bass cleft. She told me a quick fix, just flip the note up to the next whatever the note was on...line to line or space to space. I have never been able to break this habit. As you can imagine, that is quite a lot of work to do just to read the music. This makes playing more than one note next to impossible. Now that I am retired and have time to work on my piano skills, do you have any suggestions to help me read the bass cleft any easier/faster? I also know that bass lines go as follows G(ood)(oys), D(eserve), F(udge); and that the spaces are A(ll), C(ows), E(at), G(rass). So short of straight out memorizing the notes, do you have any suggestions?

[@mynonleatherlife]

Absolutely amazing!! Thank you

[@pianoly]

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[@robertakerman3570]

Hi Kaitlyn, that's the beauty of "C" major. No accidentals are truly a confidence builder. Then a single flat or sharp-the training wheels have been adjusted(etc.).

[@timgurr1876]

Thanks for the interval tip. I struggle with reading notes.

[@RamdanCode]

Wow, what an eye-opener! 🎹 I've been struggling with reading music for ages, and this ONE trick is a game-changer. Thanks a million for sharing this valuable technique! 🙌 Understanding intervals makes so much sense, and breaking it down step by step really helps, especially for us beginners. The tip on reading lead sheets is pure gold - it's like unlocking a new level in music reading. 🌟 Thank you to the talented creator for such a clear and insightful tutorial! Your passion for music education shines through. 🎶 Can't wait to apply this to my piano sessions. Also, I appreciate the personal touch in the comments - feels great to connect on a musical journey. My biggest struggle was definitely deciphering left-hand notes, and this video just made it so much simpler. 🤩 Looking forward to more fantastic content from your channel! Keep up the fantastic work and thanks again for making music more accessible for us learners. 🎵✨

[@sandrafowkes53]

Love your videos! Started learning piano in last 2 years as an OAP as well as guitar. Love the way you’ve taken the left hands and used chords to improvise with the right hand melody. I’ve never liked improvisation because it never sounded like the song and I can’t sing! You’ve definitely inspired me!!! 😀

[@BrittneeAlexus]

thank you for this!!!

[@moritzathaher]

Wow, the approach you take makes it incredibly simple for people to pick up reading music notation quickly.

[@leocadelina7146]

Thank you for sharing piano lessons. I spend so much time practicing but only few of the many lessons.youve been sharing almost all day and also in some of the nights. I am a slow learner but I was enjoying a lot even though my left hand is not cooperating with my right hand. So I am practicing piano with my left hand alone for awhile then with my right hand as soon as my right hand calls for its turn to play. I was trying to make both hands work together in harmony without pushing them hard to get along. Maybe, hopefully, my both hands would come together in good terms overtime. Again, thank you so much. We are thankful for sharing your channel, for your genuine effort to boost the moral of those who are not gifted enough of the talent in playing the piano. God bless you and have a nice day.

[@marcuscastle]

This is great, as a total beginner I try to read every note on the score then find it on the piano, which is so slooowww, this is way faster. Wish I'd seen this earlier haha!

[@cjg8763]

Thumbnail shows Chopin Raindrop Prelude, one of my favorite pieces to play, especially the middle section, so much fun to play it!

[@PySnek]

omg, this makes it so much easier because it takes way less effort for the brain to work with such patterns! thank you so much this really felt like a complete lesson

[@diederikvandedijk]

I am a professional piano player and this really helps me reading music

[@JohnDavis-xk5fi]

I am completely lost in this video. I already knew the lines and spaces of the treble clef, but after that I was completely lost. This isn't nearly as simple as people are saying in the comments.

[@tangolima4148]

It is easier to understand coming from reading notes from the get go; hence this is why she learned it during music university. It is an enhancement not really great for novice

[@FrankDux-uo7ig]

She straight up says it’s gonna take practice but will be easier in the long run. And she’s right. Using this method you only have to think about what note the first is then work in intervals as opposed to looking at each one and thinking what note is that? I’m a complete beginner and it makes sense to me. Just takes a bit of practice. And I get that seems like more work but it’s only at first.

[@englishtutorial-vv7kb]

Way you are teaching is really admirable and I have also learnt playing piano but i get inspiration from you.God bless you.go on

[@berlinjackson1847]

You are such a great piano teacher. Thanks for making these videos😊

[@SalimSivaad]

The biggest struggle reading music is not reading pitches; it’s reading *RHYTHMS* particularly lots of mixed note lengths with sub divisions shorter than eighth notes. Like triplets, 16ths, and quintuplets and stuff. The mixed rhythms make reading the pitches harder than they’d be if it were just straight quarters or straight eighths.

[@rhyfelwrDuw]

I struggle with the rhythms more than the notes/intervals!

[@WJAlexander-o6t]

If I already know how the song is supposed to sound, I don't need to read the rhythm notes, which I don't.

[@ricaard]

Good, I've been reading (and teaching) intervallically for years. Well done!

[@frankpork7665]

I had a high school friend ask me to stretch my hands as wide as I could on her piano. She acted playfully jealous and said, “you could play 9ths so easily!” 20 years later and I finally understand what that meant. Thank you

[@lindsey_sro]

This was probably the most helpful tip for reading music I have EVER HEARD. Thank you so much! I’m relatively a beginner at reading music, I’m 12 years old and your videos have helped me immensely!! ❤❤❤

[@rickgomez2885]

Reading music for me never was a problem. Playing it was, as I was not blessed with the manual dexterity to become a skilled musician.

[@rdede5036]

Thanks for all your wonderful explanation. My struggle is with rhythm.

[@josephinecaruana3847]

I play bass and this has helped me a lot to understand music best video i have seen

[@jbentonio]

I learned "FACE" and "All Cows Eat Grass" a long time ago, but I still have to think about what the notes on the lines are. Your method seems so useful, especially since I already know the notes in the spaces. What a great, practical tip!

[@pianoly]

Glad it’s so helpful, Jonathan! Happy practicing! 🎹

[@AnthonyB2351]

The more you do it the easier it gets until you don't even have to think about it, your fingers will just know where to go. Just like riding a bike or any other skill, the key is practice. Practice sight reading every day. And don't be impatient. You'll get there eventually and the reward will be great.

[@Retirados-yv2lm]

Pianoly is the greatest! Thanks Kaitlyn for your free lessons.

[@lindsey_sro]

I totally agree!! 😊😊😊

[@thomashart5081]

This really helps as it more helps develop playing my feel and less reading.

[@Mrphilharmonic]

And I thought I invented this method!! Lol. (Not really) BUT I DO teach this method and it works, simply because NOTE NAMES CHANGE, intervals DO NOT. (A 3rd is STILL a third, a 5th is the same no matter where it is played, etc etc. This really is a great method AND it’s the way professionals read music, simply because there isn’t time to figure out the names of the notes in real time, especially where there are lots of them played together, and/or quickly. Go with this method. You’ll save yourself YEARS of hard work.

[@Mrphilharmonic]

AND I just love the idea of “Cat” for middle C, with the WHISKERS!!!! Genius!! I’m going to use it.

[@rick43pen]

I started a couple of weeks ago and love it! Doing much better than with other instruments I'd tried. Funny thing is I'm left handed but I find playing with the right much easier.

[@allanabulencia9268]

your lesson is clear and easy to understand ...finally, I understand those notes..thank you so much

[@HydrogenTwoO]

Thank you for explaining how it's important to have both. I think this will be helpful for me, I can read music but slowly, but intervals I do okay (not well yet). Recognizing the importance of both is helpful

[@jogriffiths4797]

I learned 'every good boy deserves fat apples' for the treble line notes

[@geoffdet9642]

As a complete beginner in reading music, i discovered that reading the notes vertically helps me to improve reading faster for left hand and right hand instead of reading from left to right. My brain responds quicker to what i see in conjuction with my hands by reading vertically.

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

Merci beaucoup. I've started to sightread Bach chorale pieces, but at a beginners level. And I was struggling, but I haven't applied this trick to playing them. Can't wait to get back to the piano.

[@pianoly]

This will definitely help with Bach chorales. Let me know how it goes! 🎹

[@markdeffebach8112]

Intervals is how I read for both piano and guitar but not clarinet. Piano was the first instrument I studied as a kid. Intervals seemed so obvious that I didn't bother with memorizing absolute notes, which frustrated my piano teacher but made transposing by sight no more difficult that reading. We sing by interval. I always felt like intervals were for musicians and absolute note reading was for people who can't hear intervals.

[@mark.peters]

I just started learning to read sheet music, I see how intervals translate relatively "easy" for piano since it is linear, however how do you apply this for guitar? The mapping from staff to fretboard isn't that obvious (to me).

[@markdeffebach8112]

@@mark.peters assuming you know your major (and minor) scales in at least 5 positions (each corresponding to the 5 basic chords shapes C, A, G, E, D) you just find your starting note then go up or down the number of scale steps that the music indicates without having to know the names of the notes.

[@sylviaecklund8766]

Love it! Thank you.

[@phyllisgordon6577]

Thanks for your insights. Such a blessing! Much success in your teaching.

[@Videogame9559]

Read my book a little better and worked out when to play the cord but your book you suggested will help a lote .

[@darwishal-nuwakhtha8219]

Amazing Easy and creative tutorial explanation Thank you from Kingdom of Bahrain

[@RobBastien]

Kaitlyn, your content is extremely good and I would assume that your courses are as good. The thing is, I do not know what course you are selling, it's just not obvious enough. I bet you could close more deals if you flat out said it...."If you like my YT videos, you'll love my piano course, the link in the description brings you right to it". Your YT content is so good that it's all is would take. Good luck!

[@lauraroberts2250]

Hadn't thought about intervals. This is a great idea. It'll help me so much. Thank you.

[@MiguelTrujillo1]

Wow. You just blew my mind. Thank you so much. You are a pro! And I am attributing my skill to you and your channel. Thank you sincerely.

[@KandMe1]

My biggest struggle with reading music is lack of experience doing it. Obvious resolve for that but if the progress is too slow to get the an interim goal that increases the chances of me getting distracted from focussing on that goal. I found one app that really helped with that. It is expensive compared to others though but well done. I got through to starting into the intermediate phase by completing 3 completely different tutorial sceries in 3 weeks so obviously a big insperation because they show a reading of the percentage I am at like 20% one day 40% the next and they don't expect perfection for each exercise before you get another in your face so plenty of variety. I think there are good apps out there but it costs some this one is 33AUD per month first 2 weeks is free as a trial. Now I found an app that is free to teachers but students of the teacher have to pay but it is only a little like $2 per student. Not saying what it is because I am not trying to push that app or the other but if someone asks I will drop the name here. My resolve is to use whatever tools are vavailable, use them all not just one. I am very thanful for posts like this. I mean it is not much but it all adds up. Sight reading is a challenge, using both hands is a challenge, not looking at the page and using periferral spacial sensitivity is a big challenge on the piano because those keys are right in your face unlike guitar. It is all a big challenge and I love that about this learning experience.

[@stephensmith5210]

Enjoying listening to pianoly. I would like to take some lessons with the hostess sometime as part of my journey to re learn classical piano. 😊

[@kehindea]

I stumbled on your channel and this is very good. Thanks for sharing

[@gustough]

Sweet. Thx4sharing!

[@pianoly]

Thanks for watching! Happy practicing! 🎹

[@julieswank5952]

So helpful! Especially with the left hand, Thanks!

[@pianoly]

Thank you, Julie! 😊 Happy playing! 🎹

[@rachelhayek556]

Thank you! It is sooo helpful I love how you explain things very clearly ❤️

[@ikrammaududi6205]

This is amazing Thanks

[@sandraporter9292]

I like the way you explain the piano’

[@HaInspiration]

👍SUBSCRIBED All - Can’t wait to view more TIPS - Thank You❣️

[@donaldmcmillan5529]

I love your videos.. I dabble in keyboard but mostly play guitar and so many songs I have to read music written for the keyboard/piano and then apply it to the fretboard so any trick I can pick up to speed this up is really great! I pinned a cheat note to my wall in my "studio" that has all the notes spelled out but I think just applying intervals should be a no brainer since I am working with intervals all the time, I just never made the connection between the two for some reason. Thank you! :)

[@ayukatem381]

But a little bit clearer with the first lesson than the second. Thanks❤

[@ByTheSpirit84]

Reading chords is by far my biggest struggle. ESPECIALLY when they are inverted.

[@AngusCoulter]

well explained - thank you 🎹

[@iandodds693]

Thanks for this. Be nice if there was a quick fix. Like everything in life that's worthwhile it takes time and commitment.

[@truthtorpedo99]

Excellent lesson, subscribed! But... what is that plant behind you? It is stunning and i have a perfect empty space for one. Please tell me

[@berniarmstrong]

My biggest struggle is getting the lengths of the notes and the rythm of the piece correct. I have often thought I had figured out a piece of music I was unfamiliar with, only to run the same score through music reading software and finding my "interpretation" was way off.

[@popoymotmot]

I’m a beginner and the way I do it is once I know the chords of the song , I just practice for hours and that’s how I memorize the entire song. I’m only interested in accompaniment piano right now, no melodies.

[@pemical35uk]

My biggest problem reading fake book notation is looking at the treble notation and the chord symbols at the same time. I seem to concentrate on one or the other and not together. I do not learn any songs but rely on my reading ability to play the song. My goal is to become such a good reader of fake book notation that i will be able to play anything simply., without actually learning the song. Do you think this is possible ? thanks for your time GREAT VIDEOS . Mike U.K

[@teedtad2534]

Will she do more pop songs in the future?! Too many Beatles songs!! 🕊️☮️☮️🕊️

[@christinejones7226]

Hi katilyn I writes my own gospel songs and I need to learn how to play the piano to go along with my songs I can play a little bit… so far I’m playing by ear I just don’t know how to match up my left hand chords with my right hand

[@1976oswald]

Awesome, thank you so much !!!

[@sharonschmeling6873]

Enjoy your videos, good technique and hilarious.

[@basementstudio7574]

Bass player here. The thing that trips me up is rhythmic notation. I got the notes down but when there's a dotted 8th tied to a 16th followed by a quarter rest or something like that I just completely loose it. I see other people just immediately tap it out like it's nothing. Very frustrating.

[@Videogame9559]

Hi I am James I like follow your piano course I'm using M-Audio midi player using on headphones software albeton live its grate for playing around on and record my playing and no one has to hear me repeat when practising. Any suggestion on downloading better sounds or songs .

[@bjguerrero7723]

Thank you teacher❤

[@klemenskrem]

Love your channel! You're also extremely funny btw

[@RiseWitPurpose]

Thank you for your help!❤

[@ayukatem381]

I love ur method as a beginner

[@_KUNAL_-_]

Thanks for this helpful video.

[@pianoly]

Thanks for watching! 🎹

[@GaZonk100]

now she an alluring presence...whoa, am completely enamored

[@dy6682]

Thank God a lot of us musicians don’t need to learn this stuff in order to create or perform our music . Great video, never the less .

[@teedtad2534]

This woman kicks my ass! Just HOW can I write my OWN songs using the most common chords that works miracles to be creative in pop or standard music?! .,. 🧁🙏🙏🧁

[@roseandmose]

Please help how I can read both left and right hand together because when I read right hand I cannot reach to left hand it is like my brain just on top of the page

[@backyardanimals777]

Thank you.

[@journees4300]

I have a much more simpler trick. You only have to memorize TWO keys on the piano, which is the C for right hand and A for the left. Then put your fingers on the piano skipping one white key with your eyes on the sheet. Each of your finger is now correspond to one note located on the lines. You don't even have to know the names of the notes, just play whatever is located at your corresponding finger tip.

[@madhu1234bhushal]

Yes mam playing left hand is very difficult .

[@wheelieblind]

I met the Beatles when I was younger... performed with them, those guys could not read sheet music, which was my excuse when I was sick of reading it and going 'every good boy does fine' and so on... why the long way around going in circles to learn to read music? Just the though of it is a pain in the ass, after you get to a point you have learned a ton of shite they now go ooh by the way you could of done 'blah blah blah' all along... fuck all math teachers while we are at it lol. 4 plus 3 is saying 4 and counting 3 bitch not counting the hole thing like they wanted us to suffer lol. Going 4, 5 6 7, you know but no they want you to suffer first. I've even gone threw the college level music classes, by this time you have figured it out on your own look at the spacing between the notes. Their is no question in my mind that says anything not understanding the problems the Beatles had trying to read sheet music lol. The amount of musicians I know to this day who can not read sheet music, and then those who can but it is more on a simpler level as if to say 'every good boy does fine' is where they were with it like I once was.

[@garyedwards8142]

Great tutorials… for me… I struggle identifying sharps and flats…I’m learning to play the organ so chords on left hand are easier for me…👍base peddles mmmm🥴

[@WilliamMartinez-lm1sk]

Hello, well explained, thank you, I just wished I had to right hands. 🤓😬🤭.🎼🎶🎹🎵🎸.

[@kinafagan9250]

Hi,I’m an older learner but very familiar with other instruments and vocal and understands theory but now really wanting to read sheet music.So just from what you explained,for example,wen you said going down,you could have fully said,going back down a third in one sentence,Capiche? But I’m getting what your gist is on interval reading with the recognised usual Egbert and face.Cheers

[@harmono8766]

I have to use this method because I have dyslexia and can't tell what rows are what. I didn't really learn to sight read because the software that taught me didn't let me mark the beginning of each staff with the staff symbol or some point of reference. My eyes just jump around

[@michellescarborough16]

The notes where I have to stop and figure them out are the ones that are two to three lines below the last line or above the last line.

[@AlOne-xg6dv]

Interesting, thank you.

[@exzentrische]

So you could then name those lines by number. Middle C could be number one or zero and D could be 2 or 1 and so one.

[@dennissmallwood9082]

This did not work for me. I learned the notes on the treble clef and I know the notes on the base clef but up two down three isn’t natural to me. My issue is playing different things in both hands. I play block chords in the left hand. I need help putting the chords on the right hand to play octaves or sixths in the left.

[@CarlWinter-oy8uf]

A piano is really a complex 3 octave guitar-----so creating TAB for this monster will be wonderful but challenging ---?

[@gillmahoney4742]

This is am afraid ismt helping me. Can read music but too slowly. I find i have to translate thr otes to letters, in fact i transcibed beethoven sonatas on paper then learnt them off by heart and played them fine, but 8 want to read music itslf at speed but have some dislexic typr problem. When i was five I wanted to be concert pianist but mum sold the piano, i finally was allowed to have one when i was. My biggest struggle are what Re thr notes above and below the stage, i come to a hault whilst I work them out.

[@liangcai8519]

Thank you. The relationship between notes are so helpful, I am still pretty slow in reading through, probably need more practice. I wonder how Stacy does her note reading? Any ideas?😂

[@birgithade5022]

When it comes to ledger lines, I'm lost😢

[@bricago2302]

⁠​⁠@@birgithade5022I found that the only way I could conquer ledger lines was by making flash cards with notecards and just memorize them by rote repetition. Tedious but effective. I created four categories: below the bass clef staff, above it, below the treble staff, and above it. I worked one group at a time, then combined two groups, then three, then all four with a metronome set at 50. The metronome is what tells you which ones you don’t know. 😊 To use this info in context, it helps to flip through music books and look for ledger line notes to see if I can name them “when it counts.”

[@birgithade5022]

Thanks. I'm gonna try🙋‍♀️

[@amishgirl1000]

My biggest struggle with reading music is when the notes go way above or below the music staff. I can never figure that out.

[@bobcon181]

Thanks!

[@pianoly]

Thanks so much!

[@garySeiders-e9u]

Kaitlyn, I know I am dumb. as well as being Blind but where are the lines that you were referring to. it is the lines on the Tre quest and on face is that what the intervals are please help me. I have been playing for 18 months and can only play one song. it is driving me nuts I don't mind work but not on this keyboard. Will you help me?

[@rascalwind]

Guitar is all left hand notes ;)

[@ckdub2]

Dotted 8ths and 16ths… tight syncopation 🤷🏾‍♂️😬😳🫣

[@jabarebird]

I like the idea of getting set in a 'starting' note and then using intervals to go to the next one, instead of decoding the notes on the page. My problem is that this will only work in the key of C (or Am, I guess). If I am in F, for example and my starting note is a G, then next note is up a third, I need to realize that the next note is a B so I can flat it. Or am I missing something?

[@FrankDux-uo7ig]

Don’t think about the next note just keep working in the intervals. It will have a sharp or flat on the staff if the note is sharp or flat. Same as it would if you had to read the notes individually.