Sheet Music reders?

KAWIKA27 · Apr 23, 2008

Does anybody know how to read sheet Music?

Im taking class's to learn im, starting to get it more and more.
I figured it would open up more songs for me to play. But i am having a little trouble applying it to the ukulele.

UkuLeLesReggAe · Apr 23, 2008

i dont even know what sheet music is =s

KAWIKA27 · Apr 23, 2008

umm the stuff piano players usualy use to play is the best whay i can discribe it

Vroom · Apr 23, 2008

Its music you read off a sheet, to put it simply... I dont really know how to explain it.. I have been in piano for 11 years and i can read any kind of piano piece now, and it definitely helps with learning other instruments. Dramatically.

Poi Dog · Apr 23, 2008

I learned to read music when I used to play piano.

seeso · Apr 23, 2008

Awesome. It can't hurt, it can only help. Especially when tabs are non-existent, you can take a look at the sheet music and figure it out on the ukulele.

davoomac · Apr 23, 2008

I do, and it helps alot actually. Plus when you have tabs as good as dominator's that include the sheet music notes then it will make learning songs even easier. The notes also help alot with the timing as tabs cannot convey how long a note is held for.

experimentjon · Apr 23, 2008

I can read sheet music for band and wind instruments in treble cleff. But I can't readily apply it to ukulele, for one, because I don't have the note positions on ukulele all down in my head yet, and I can't read chords in sheet music. I have no idea how piano players do it.

UkuLeLesReggAe · Apr 23, 2008

oh those black circles with the lines lol??

cant read em

Guting · Apr 23, 2008

I used to be very good (coud read anything), back in highschool band.

but now its probably like looking at Hiragana

Vroom · Apr 23, 2008

Guting said:
I used to be very good (coud read anything), back in highschool band.

but now its probably like looking at Hiragana

You probably still could, when you know how to read music... it doesn't really go away. I find It's like reading another language, and once you learn it, it never goes away. Kind of like reading a book. It's kind of hard to become illiterate.

davoomac · Apr 23, 2008

Vroom said:
You probably still could, when you know how to read music... it doesn't really go away. I find It's like reading another language, and once you learn it, it never goes away. Kind of like reading a book. It's kind of hard to become illiterate.

MMmm. I would say that it doesn't fullly go away, but it does get REALLY rusty. Like I played piano for a while and I was getting pretty good at reading notes. Now if you try to make me sight read its so hard! I know the notes, I know what to press, but I can't do it all at once.

Guting · Apr 23, 2008

yeah rusty is definately it.

NotoriousMOK · Apr 23, 2008

I have a surface familiarity, enough to get by anyways. Diddling with the tab programs really helped/forced the issue for me (TuxGuitar, PowerTab, etc)

h-drix · Apr 23, 2008

read it for school (cello). unfortunately i cant read treble, only bass =( for those who dont know anything about sheet music, you cant transfer bass cleff music to the ukulele.

Vroom · Apr 23, 2008

h-drix said:
read it for school (cello). unfortunately i cant read treble, only bass =( for those who dont know anything about sheet music, you cant transfer bass cleff music to the ukulele.

If you already know the notes on the bass clef really well, it won't take long at ALL to learn the notes on the treble clef.

davoomac · Apr 24, 2008

h-drix said:
read it for school (cello). unfortunately i cant read treble, only bass =( for those who dont know anything about sheet music, you cant transfer bass cleff music to the ukulele.

Sure you can. You can read bass cleff notes on the uke, you would just be playing the notes an octave or two higher than written.

hotnanas · Apr 24, 2008

i've been teaching myself...i am still uncertain about all the note symbology, but I can at least determine whether its a C, G, A, or whatever...

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