1. Beginner’s guide
How to Read Music

2. Music is read left to right
Look at the staffs
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Bars connect the staffs that are played at the same time.
Look for the choir brace.
Find the staff for your part.
Read the music from staff system to staff system.

3. Where is your part ? Look for the choir brace. 2.Find the clef sign
3.Follow that sign
from staff system
to staff system.

4. Examples

5. More examples

6. Important Terms Staff System Bar Line | Choir Brace [ Piano Brace {

7. Test Your Understanding
On manuscript paper draw the following things:
1. Your Name
2. connect 2 staffs with a bar line
3. Add a choir brace
4. connect 2 more staffs to the choir staffs with a bar line.
5. Add a piano brace.
6. Skip a staff, and repeat all of the above.
7. Circle the 2 staff systems

8. Look at the notes ♪ Look at the notes on the staff.
Notes are different. ♪
Whole note Half note quarter note eighth note
4 counts 2 counts count ½ count

9. Note Values
Write these notes on the staff: Whole Notes = 4 Half notes = 2 Quarter Notes = 1 8th notes = 1/2