sure :) ok you know the lines right? The space think of it as a letter for each space spelling out : F.A.C.E the lines spell Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge. thats how i learned it. :) now thats reading the lines. the notes will be on a line or a space. You can tell what note depending on what it is. if its on the E line, it is an e note. The ones that is like a dot colored in with a line is an eighth note. you play that note once. The one thats a dot but not colored in with a line is a half note, you play it for 2 beats. The circle not colored in is a whole note, it will have a line through it. You play that for 4 beats. Each measure has 4 beats, so it could be like, a half note and 2 eighth notes. The songs will have a combination of notes. I play the clarinet and if you rent one with a book, it will have the fingerings in the back of the book, it shows all the notes and it will teach you in the book. There are many songs in the book. Thats basically all there is. The fingerings are different for every instrument, so are the staff things. Im giving you this off my clarinet lessons, im a pro at the clarinet and i taught myself.
The lines on a musical staff are E.G.B.D.F (Every Good Boy Does Fine) and the spaces spell F.A.C.E. In the musical alphabet, the letters only go up to G. For example, in note reading you will never see an H or a Z or anywhere inbetween. If you start on the first line of a music staff, you start with E then work your way up going back to A after the letter G. For bass clef, the letters are G.B.D.F.A (Good Boys Do Fine Always) and spaces are A.C.E.G (A Cow Eats Grass) same principle with reading treble. I can also help with playing an instrument (I play guitar, bass, and clarinet) and song lyrics, if that's what you ment with "Can anybody teach me how to read music?" I hope I helped. XP
posted over a year ago
I did not mention about reading whole notes and quarter notes.... Whole notes are the little circles that just appear to be there, you play those notes for 4 beats. Half notes are the notes witht he stem and the not colored in circle you hold these notes for two beats. Quarter notes and the colored in circles with the stem, you onlt hold these for 1 beat. and eighth notes and the colored notes with the flag looking thing. you hold these for a half a beat. The time signature at the beginning of every piece is how many beats are in each measure. If there is a dot after a note you hold the note half as much as the note for example. If there was a dot after a half note you would hold the note 3 beats instead of 2 because half of two is one and one plus the original value of two is three,
