Can someone find me a really really simple explanation of how to read music (with diagrams of course)?

Posted on March 13th, 2010 by webmaster
  • I have a mate teaching me the bass guitar, i think i would understand a lot better if i could read music than just mirroring his hands. I figured i'd save him some time and effort by looking it up myself.

    I think the graph-like representation they use for classical music would make most intuitive sense to me, time on the x axis, pitch on the y axis.

    Is that an unusual way to record musical notation for the bass? From what i hear it is usually recorded as "tabs"? What are tabs? Is it just a string of letters? That wouldn't make sense to me, i would want to graph it. I am a very visual person.

    Why i don't just stick to the visual arts, i don't know, I like a challenge?


  • Using the staff makes much more sense than tabs, trust me.
    You have a clef (you'll use bass, but there's also treble, tenor, and alto (respectively)), a key signature (with sharps or flats), and a time signature (such as 4/4, 3/4 etc.)
    This might not make sense now, but it's much easier and more applicable than using tabs.


  • Use the drop down menu for "lessons" very clear and easy to use
    http://www.musictheory.net/

    Start with the 1st lesson -Staff and Clefs

    These might help too
    http://cnx.org/content/m10941/latest/

    http://www.lancastersymphony.org/Communi...







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