How to Read Notes Fast - The Landmark System

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In this video I teach you how to read notes fast, using The Landmark System. Note Recognition is the first step to sight reading music / scores / pieces. Learning how to read music quickly begins with this system.

By using the 9 Landmarks you can read notes faster than using the Every Good Boy Does Fine method.

Enjoy!

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[musiciansinspired]

Hey there! If you loved this video, you'll love The Note Reading Boot Camp 3.0:

In The Note Reading Boot Camp 3.0 you'll go in depth into the Landmark System as well as work through a ton of challenging and fun exercises. (BPM bootcamps, play-a-longs, and more). The entire course (lectures and exercises) is logically structured and optimized to get you to become a fast note reader. You simply go from beginning to end and in that process you'll begin to read notes quickly and easily.

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P.S.
Thanks for all the love on this video. Glad it's been helpful for a lot of people. Also glad to know the My Chemical Romance fanbase is still going strong!

[ayeshak]

"Well if it's above G, what is it?"
Me: "H."

[jmfirng]

It may seem impossible at first but trust me once you get the basics and start practicing seriously, you'll notice that you won't need to look down at your hands to play the note youre looking at🥰 it'll be hard but it'll be worth it!!

[kirrileepearson]

I learned the crappy EGBDF and FACE as a kid and it's no wonder I'm still a slow reader of sheet music... thanks for connecting the dots, literally

[smithintern-tainment]

These are the kind of tutorials I like to watch. There’s no “fluff” or condescending bullcrap. Just pure and direct information with a little personality

[skydreams]

My worst enemy: notes floating above in space.

[christianlund]

i’ve been playing piano for 11 years why did i watch this entire thing

[neoblackcyptron]

I like this system. It focuses on visual recognition. The old mnemonic system was a pain to deal with. Thanks for this.

[LettusNotLettuce]

the guy who invented piano notes was either drunk af or smart af

[robertall.dawson]

I'm 64 years old, took piano lessons from kindergarten to fifth grade, until this video I didn't realize what I had forgotten, you brought it back to me, will be looking forward to more, may peace be unto you, and to your family, and all that you have.

[shanejung]

I'll stick to playing the triangle.

[Sooberpew]

I’m dyslexic and imagining things in a picture is easier to memorize for me so this method you shared with us is totally helpful! Thanks

[integlol]

This makes me thankful to whoever invented TABS for guitar

[freiheit]

Wow - I'm a music teacher and have been teaching using the 'Every Good Boy' method recently and found that students struggle with reading notes above and below stave using that method and also don't seem to find the relationships of notes on their instrument or piano. I've been looking for simple methods of teaching sight-reading and notation and this Landmark system makes so much sense and is very clear! Thanks for sharing! Will give this a go!

[heatherwhiteley]

My 5 year old son has watched this about 100 times, and I think he has all 9 minutes of your dialogue memorized. He's sitting at the piano right now, and he's at 8:15 right now. I might have to make a video of it and show it to you.
He definitely reads music better than I can right now, and though I'm not a musician by any stretch, he's going to pass me up with my 7 years of piano lessons pretty soon!
Thank you for such a great video! People like you make YouTube a great place for learning!

[yosoress]

man I have to sing my ABC just to know what comes after a letter

[BlackPocketYT]

This is great, thanks for posting.

It may also be useful to point out that the treble clef mark (𝄞) on the stave is centred around Treble G and the bass clef mark (𝄢) is centred on Bass F

[PotatoFarmer]

Whew, this made me appreciate the person who came up with the staff. I tried learning via mnemonics and I was getting nowhere. Looking at this thing via the landmark system, I never realized how well thought the staff was in terms of symmetry and distance between notes, damn.

[worldmapping]

people: *uses do re mi fa sol la si*
every tutorial: yeah we don't do that here

[TLMuse]

Maybe it's worth noting that the landmarks are related to the perfect intervals in the key of C (a perfect 4th is F, a perfect 5th is G; these intervals are the inverse of each other, corresponding to opposite movement around the circle of 5ths). —Tom