This is the Fastest Method to Reading Sheet Music (IN DEPTH)

I'm going to give you the fastest method to reading sheet music. This method builds off of the intervals technique I've introduced in earlier piano lessons.

If you don't know how to read music, I quickly review the basics of reading music and intervals before introducing today's technique.
You eventually want to start looking at notes in terms of patterns and clusters rather than individual notes. This lesson will also help with note recognition as well as reading on ledger lines, reading through scores, and using note landmarks to read notes super fast.

Watch this video next (Mistakes You are Making Reading Music)

Chapters
00:00 What you are learning
00:20 Interval Basics
05:27 How Intervals Help (Example)
07:20 How to Practice Intervals
09:00 The Skipping Technique
11:12 Ledger Line Rules
13:30 Landmark Technique
14:42 Pattern Recognition
18:09 Interval Quality
28:04 Quiz
31:04 The Final Tip

[robertbrown]

This is one of the best videos on reading music!

[ronniewetherington]

Thanks for sharing your experience with me!

[LessonsOnTheWeb]

Attention Students! I highly recommend you check out this lesson next. It is the PERFECT lesson to watch after this one. (Mistakes You are Making Reading Music)

[MikeM]

Glad I took the time...well worth watching. I was trying to play music the other day that had notes below the treble clef that looked like two whole note C's and I wasn't sure what the note(s) would be. I guessed I assumed that any notes other than D, C & B would just be placed within the bass clef.

[markshveima]

Stellar lesson!! Thank You! On to part 3!!

[nurahabduallah]

Thank you sooo much .. this was so helpful for me

[CarltonGrenier]

Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful and clear explanation of the piece of piano lesson.

[eliaskambale]

This is the video I've looking for all along

[Ludesto]

Amazing video. Gonna rewatch it a lot.

[maximuswilliam]

I also use the same interval reading exercise as you do :D

[giladayan]

Tim is a very good teatcher. listening to him I enjoy the tips he is giving. nOT EASY FOR ME BECAUSE i AM UDED FROM MY CHILDHOOD TO READ do re mi fa sol

[Mozhart]

Enjoying your videos a lot. When it comes to Intervals, here is how I quickly identify if the interval is odd or even…I use, reverse images, for example, a third, EG or FA look nice and even, because they are stacked the same, therefore they are ODD…….CD or FG are odd (not line/line or space/space), therefore they are EVEN. I know this sounds weird, but when I see two notes line to line or space to space, they are “evenly” stacked, therefore they are ODD, and of course the opposite….seeing notes stacked on lines and spaces, looks odd and therefore EVEN. Please don’t thank me for confusing you.

[virginiafiume]

Hi, I just love you videos- do you give lessons to older people from beginning. I can read notes.

[judymarshall]

I totally agree. I'm still trying to learn how to sight read, and this video makes so plain.

[JimsMusicLessons]

21:44 You said minor second but your fingers were on minor thirds, both for C-Eb and E-G. Thanks for the video!

[danielvega]

Do you know of any method or exercises to practice sight reading (or at least "fast reading")? I can read, i.e. I know the notes, signatures, keys, symbols, etc... but almost as if I could only read "word by word" of a text, and not a sentence or a paragraph on the spot (and that makes me a "functional illiterate" in music). Most of the time it's easier and faster for me to pick the chords/notes by ear (if I do have the music recorded); and to read it just to check if I picked them right or if I'm not picking a particular sound. But I know this is quite of a flaw...

[gmtgsong]

Helpful, thanks! Quick question, at 17:45 you say it's an inversion, where to me it looks like a perfect G major arpeggio. Am I missing something?

[NatSatFat]

Very Interesting your explanation Never thought this way, looking your counting way, at 15:28 you label the notes C E C E E (e=3rd, C is on same space as first C is it a C the Same?) or is it a G which is 4th from the 2nd E?
Then you have an E which is a 3rd from C but on the staff it looks a 4th, which should be an F?
Just looking at your drawing and interpreting off your explanation, am I right or wrong, if I am wrong please tell me where I have misunderstood please?

[Andrew-djwd]

What software is used to practice your piano training?

[spanishwithmaria]

Tim, I've just found your channel. Can you tell me, the "app" you're using in the quiz at 29min on this video, is that part of your course?