Vastly Improve Your Music Reading Abilities Using Note Clusters
In this lesson I will show you how to improve your music reading abilities using note clusters. This builds off of basic sheet music reading and the use of intervals. You need to know this strategy if you want to read large clusters of notes at the same time. If you're serious about learning how to play piano, you will definitely want to spend the time to practice and master this technique. Mastering interval clusters will make reading music easier.
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( When I look into notes and I need to “jump” another position, i.e. playing intervals but from different notes, it sometimes take long time to remember on “what note right now my finger is” and where is that note in distance by not looking. If I look I find notes instantly but it feels better when I don’t look and trying to find/count distance. I am trying to imagine keyboard and feel the distance, it feels very cool but takes million years to execute.
Tim do I need to look at keyboard and hands when I sightread or better I look into notes and train memory ?
Tim! I just want to thank you so much for sharing with us all your enormous knowledge. I just started to learn piano and I found my self struggling to learn the theory side of actually know how to play music, and than I found your channel!
I’m watching a lot of your videos is the last couple of weeks and I just want to let you know you are helping me and tons of other people from all over the world!
I’m sure that its not easy to come up with all your setup of editing your videos ,and your great drawing note app.
Thank you so much my man! , I wish you all the best in the world, you are a great person! and you have so much for being a proud person!
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You are so good at teaching, thank you so much Tim!
Best teacher who actually wants to teach you make it so clear !! Love your channel thank you! ?
Tim, you are such a good pedagogue. Thank you. I finally know how to quickly identify the intervals.
I’m studying my grade 5 theory (not with an instrument, but with voice, although you are your instrument) and your videos are so helpful. The link for your music theory dot net is so helpful. I’m studying diminished and augmented intervals along with compound intervals and your website is so helpful as a resource tool. I’m using the official ABRSM exercise books but it’s also refreshing to find other sources of help! Keep up the great work and your videos are awesome too.
This is very helpful!!! Thanks so much for explaining this so thoroughly!
Very well explained, you’re not only a music teacher but also a genius, thanks for a well done job. Greetings from the UK
With one year of piano lessons…Tim makes it possible to actually LEARN piano! A REAL TEACHER! AMAZING, God bless Tim!
marvellous and helpful lesson. Thank you.
The interval explanation was excellent!!!! – Thank you!
Great video. Shared it with my students who previously missed my class on interval reading. May I ask what kind of program you use to draw the notes on staff that turns into a legible score (I don’t know how to explain it!!!)? Also, what kind of program do you use to split the screen in two with a little headshot up at the top? I’m trying to find a better solution to teaching online during COVID-19 than just using a single camera from my laptop. Thank you for your help in advance.
Thank you so much! A less painful alternative to memorizing notes on the treble and bass clefs.
This is so helpful, thank you so much!
Excellent. Reading using intervals really helps my sight reading.
This video really helped – it was something that never occurred to me. Thanks!
Great clear explanation!
Thank you so much for this lesson! It was so helpful and easy to understand
Your videos have helped me so much as a harpist. I am a flutist who never played a chord (for obvious reasons) and I had never needed to learn bass clef. When I began I quickly taught myself to identify notes in bass clef and wrote them in. Big mistake! That may have been good for becoming fluent in playing a piece, above my level but I wasn’t learning to identify notes or intervals. Then I found you. I have been sharing your videos in my harp group and people are just loving them. I mean we are basically doing the same thing, minus the black keys and get our sharps and flats with levers or pedals. But the reading of music is all the same. And using the website you showed was awesome. I was able to identify my intervals very quickly and tested my speed an accuracy. This is great. Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge and your tips/tricks with us out here.
I struggle with sight reading…this was very helpful, thank you so much.