Learn To Read Music in Hours, not Years!
In about 3 hours I can really teach you to read music.
You won't be great, of course, but you'll be on your way!
Learn The 3 Elements of Music Rapidly
- Melody (the tune of a song)
- Rhythm (the pulse or beat of a song)
- Harmony (the chords that support the melody)
This Is Too Good To Be True -- Right?
The reason it seems to be an amazing claim is simply because people THINK learning to read music is a slow, long, drawn-out process. But it's only slow because of poorly-organized teaching techniques. What music teachers usually teach is OK, but it's out-of-order, or fuzzy, or confusing, or gets bogged down in a torrent of words. And so people naturally think that it takes a long time to learn to read music.
But that's absolutely false. Period.
The Amazing Power Of Simplicity
In just 3 or 4 hours -- set aside one evening instead of watching 3 or 4 television programs you'll forget right after you watch them -- I can have you understanding the three principles of music reading. Within the first hour as we cover melody you will know all the notes in both the treble and the bass clefs, as well as the little short lines above and below the staff, plus all 7 of the flats and all 7 of the sharps and how they affect each note. And you'll know the order of the sharps and the order of the flats as they always occur.
The "Big Three" of Music Reading
Within the 2nd hour you'll know what rhythm is about and how to keep time in 3/4 and 4/4 -- (the two basic meters that comprise 90% of all songs). You'll know and understand that measures are "rhythm rooms" that contain a combination of note values -- quarter notes, eights notes, half notes, etc. -- and rests (signs of silence).
In the third hour you'll learn about unisons (one note), intervals (two notes) and chords (3 or more notes) and the 4 main types of chords as we learn harmony. We'll see how easy it is to memorize the 1 dozen major chords, then transform them into minor chords by moving just one note, augmented chords by moving another note, and diminished chords by moving two notes. Then we'll learn about inversions (chords upside down) and extended chords (such as 6th chords, 7th chords, etc.)
In the last session together we'll put all 3 elements -- melody, rhythm, and harmony -- together to see how they all fit -- and they fit beautifully, so we'll demonstrate how the 3 elements blend together in a song such as "America The Beautiful."