1. Understand the staff: When you look at the music score, you will see five lines with four spaces in the middle, which is the staff. Lines and spaces are the
1. Understand the staff: When you look at the music score, you will see five lines with four spaces in the middle, which is the staff. Lines and spaces are the positions of notes, and the position where the notes fall determines the pitch of the notes.
2. Know clef: Music scores are different shapes, located at the beginning of music, which tell you what pitch is on what line. They are usually recognizable because they are large and cover all five elements.
3. Identify notes: The whole pitch or ordinary pitch has letter marks (ABCDEFG), but there are also semitones between the notes indicated by a# or B. The # note at the beginning of the score indicates the key symbol, and the lines or gaps above indicate that any notes falling there are played with this note.
4. Identify the time stamp: use two numbers at the beginning of the score. The number below indicates what kind of sound the beat is, and the number above indicates how many beats there are in the first degree.
5. Identify the spectrum of left hand and right hand: there are two symbols at the beginning of each line, indicating which hand plays which note. The upper notes represent notes played with the right hand, and the lower notes represent notes played with the left hand.