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What You'll Learn:
- How to read notes and play them instantly on the piano
- Understand how a piano score works
- Name all the keys on the piano
- Train your brain to react to playing notes at speed
- Learn the unique Guide Note Method that will make sight-reading much easier
This course takes a unique approach...
Learning to read music is one of the biggest challenges people face when learning the piano, and beginners can often feel overwhelmed when they are first faced with a piano score. Sight-reading notes using the traditional methods is difficult, and people can often spend years struggling to remember the note names. This breeds frustration and holds them back from doing what they really want to do, which is to PLAY beautiful songs on the piano!
But there is a way to easily get over this first stage of learning to read musical notes!
It doesn't have to take years, months or even weeks and can quickly set you on a path of learning piano with fulfillment and fun!
Fast track your piano learning journey using The Guide Note Method. It's easy to understand, effective, and much faster than the traditional methods most music teachers use.
Traditional methods are:
- Ineffective - You have to memorise certain phrases/mnemonics such as Every Good Boy Deserves Football or All Cows Eat Grass, and remember where to use them on the piano score. Students often get these mixed up, and trying to remember which phrase applies where in the middle of sight-reading a tune is an ineffective approach.
- Slow - Going through the process of remembering a phrase, working your way towards a note using that phrase, and then finding the correct key on the piano is a slow process. It's not ideal when trying to play many notes at the same time.
- Only partly useful - They tell you the name of the note, but not WHICH specific key is the correct note to play on the piano.
- Incomplete - They only show you how to name 18 notes on a piano score, and don't even include "Middle C"!
The Guide Note Method is:
- Simple - The method used is easy to remember because it focuses on a core of just 10 notes, which give you the ability to speedily play 38+ notes.
- Effective - It uses a visual approach, working off "guide notes" which is much more effective when sight-reading, as oppose to trying to recall phrases in the middle of playing a tune.
- Fast - It trains you to react quickly to notes and their positions on the piano, because the note recall process is refined. By the end of the course you'll get to a point where reading the notes is more of a reflex than a memory test.
- Concise - It focuses on one goal, which is to see a note and play it instantly on the piano. You won't spend 10-20 hours learning vast amounts of musical terminology, but you will learn how to read and play musical notes in a short space of time.
This course does not cover how to read different rhythms, key signatures or teach you how to play specific tunes!
What it does do is teach you how to read notes using a fast and effective method, hugely accelerating your piano learning experience so that you can spend your time learning how to play your favourite tunes on the piano!
Who is the course for?
- Complete beginners on the piano
- Anyone wanting to learn how to read musical notes for piano and keyboard
- People who can already read music but find it a slow process and want to improve their note reading speed using a new approach
- People who can already play by ear and want to fast track how to read musical notes
- This course is not for people wanting to learn about rhythms, key signatures or how to play specific tunes
Interactive Tests
The course has interactive tests that make the process of learning the notes fun! Challenge yourself to improve on your times and see how much you improve as you progress.
(NEW UPDATE - For those wanting extra note practice - 24 additional video notation tests have now been included.)
Workbook Download
Including a 50+ page workbook filled with valuable information and graphics that you can download and print off. It includes supplemental lessons that compliment the video lessons, as well as additional written tests that you can work through to refine your note reading skills even more. Having a physical visual guide alongside the video lessons is an important aspect of a thorough learning process.
Speed Training Drills
There are also Speed Training Drills at each stage as you progress that challenge you to play along to click tracks at various speeds, further improving your sight-reading speed.
Meet Your Instructor
Hi I'm Arthur, the creator of Birds Piano Academy. Want to know more about who you'll be learning from? Well read on.
I've been playing the piano now for over 20 years, and after achieving Grade 8 with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music I started touring as a session player in theatre shows all over the United Kingdom. I perfomed as a session player for many years. If you can think of a venue, I've probably played there. As well as this I have lots of experience in recording studios, and with bands have played music all over the world, around Europe and from the USA to Australia. I've been teaching Piano for 10 years, and am an approved tutor with the City of York Arts Council.
I really enjoy teaching piano in ways that make it engaging and fun, and love creating online courses to help people like yourself be the best piano player that you can possibly be!
Course Curriculum
- An Overview of Note Learning Methods - The Old and the New (3:09)
- The Plan of Action (0:48)
- The G in the G Clef and the F in the F Clef - The Line Anchors (6:59)
- How to do the Interactvie Tests (1:39)
- Test 1 - The G in the G Clef & F in the F Clef (The Line Anchors)
- Additional Test - Slow - The G in the G Clef & F in the F Clef (1:01)
- Additional Test - Medium - The G in the G Clef & F in the F Clef (0:36)
- Additional Test - Fast - The G in the G Clef & F in the F Clef (0:29)
- How to do the Speed Training Drills (1:19)
- Speed Training Drill - The G in the G Clef & F in the F Clef - Slow 80 BPM (1:26)
- Speed Training Drill - The G in the G Clef and F in the F Clef - Fast 160 BPM (0:50)
- Test 1.b - Speed Check
- The Middle C Anchors (3:14)
- Test 2 - Middle C's and Line Anchors
- Additional Test - Slow - The Middle C's (1:26)
- Additional Test - Medium - The Middle C's (0:56)
- Additional Test - Fast - The Middle C's (0:41)
- Speed Training Drill - Middle C's and Line Anchors - Slow 80 BPM (1:26)
- Speed Training Drill - Middle C's and Line Anchors - Medium 120 BPM (1:03)
- Speed Training Drill - Middle C's and Line Anchors - Fast 160 BPM (0:50)
- Test 2.b - Speed Check
- The C In The G Clef And C In The F Clef (The Space Anchor C's) (2:56)
- Test 3 - The C In The G Clef & C In The F Clef (The Space Anchor C's)
- Additional Test - Slow - The C In The G Clef and C In The F Clef (1:51)
- Additional Test - Medium - The C In The G Clef and C In The F Clef (1:12)
- Additional Test - Fast - The C In The G Clef and C In The F Clef (0:51)
- Speed Training Drill - The C in the G Clef and C in the F Clef - Slow 70 BPM (3:00)
- Speed Training Drill - The C in the G Clef and C in the F Clef - Medium 120 BPM (1:51)
- Speed Training Drill -The C In The G Clef & C In The F Clef - Fast 160 BPM (1:27)
- Test 3.b - Speed Check
- The Towering F and Ground Floor G (2:02)
- Test 4 - The Towering F and Ground Floor G
- Additional Test - Slow - Towering F and Ground Floor G (2:06)
- Additional Test - Medium - Towering F and Ground Floor G (1:32)
- Speed Training Drill - The Towering F and Ground Floor G - Slow 70 BPM (3:00)
- Speed Training Drill - The Towering F and Ground Floor G - Medium 120 BPM (1:51)
- Speed Training Drill - The Towering F and Ground Floor G - Fast 160 BPM (1:27)
- Additional Test - Fast - Towering F and Ground Floor G (1:02)
- Test 4.b - Speed Check
- The High C and the Low C (2:36)
- Test 5 - The High C and the Low C - All Guide Notes
- Additional Test - Slow - The High C & Low C (2:31)
- Additional Test - Medium - The High C & Low C (1:49)
- Additional Test - Fast - The High C & Low C (1:21)
- Speed Training Drill - The High C and the Low C - Slow 70 BPM (3:00)
- Speed Training Drill - The High C and Low C - Medium 120 BPM (1:51)
- Speed Training Drill - The High C and Low C - Fast 120 BPM (1:27)
- Test 5.b - Speed Check
- The None-Guide Notes - Skipping About the Piano (3:21)
- All of the White Keys/Notes (3:04)
- Test 6 - All the White Keys/Notes
- Additional Test - Slow - All White Keys Notes (3:11)
- Additional Test - Medium - All White Keys Notes (2:11)
- Additional Test - Fast - All White Keys Notes (1:32)
- Speed Training Drill - All the White Keys/Notes - Guide Notes & None-Guide Notes - Slow 70 BPM (3:00)
- Speed Training Drill - All the White Keys/Notes - Guide Notes & None-Guide Notes - Medium 120 BPM (1:51)
- Speed Training Drill - All the White Keys/Notes - Guide Notes & None-Guide Notes - Fast 160 BPM (1:27)
- Test 6.b - Speed Check
- The Black Keys Recap (Including C Flats and E Sharps) (2:58)
- Reading Notated Sharps, Flats and Naturals (5:28)
- Test 7 - Sharps, Flats and Naturals
- Additional Test - Slow - Sharps, Flats & Naturals (2:47)
- Additional Test - Medium - Sharps, Flats & Naturals (1:51)
- Additional Test - Fast - Sharps, Flats & Naturals (1:01)
- Speed Training Drill - Sharps, Flats and Naturals - Slow 70 BPM (3:00)
- Speed Training Drill - Sharps, Flats and Naturals - Medium 120 BPM (1:51)
- Speed Training Drill - Sharps, Flats and Naturals - Fast 160 BPM (1:27)
- Test 7.b - Speed Check
- Putting it All Into Practice - Guide Notes and None-Guide Notes (Including Sharps, Flats and Naturals) (0:45)
- Test 8 - Putting it All Into Practice
- Additional Test - Slow - Guide & None Guide Notes (4:11)
- Additional Test - Medium - Guide & None Guide Notes (2:41)
- Additional Test - Fast - Guide & None Guide Notes (1:26)
- Speed Training Drill - Slow - Putting it All Into Practice -Slow 70 BPM (3:00)
- Speed Training Drill - Medium - Putting it All Into Practice - Medium 120 BPM (1:51)
- Speed Training Drill - Fast - Putting it All Into Practice - Fast 160 BPM (1:27)
- Final Test
- Congratulations... You've Finished! (0:25)
Course Requirements:
- No previous musical or experience is needed
- A piano or keyboard to work through the Speed Training Drills
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