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Why most adult piano learners fail at reading music
and why avoiding it with some other approach is not the solution!
How to Become Fluent at Sheet Music And
"Read Music Like a Grownup"
Not Right Now, But Tell Me More
Not Right Now, But Tell Me More
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"Read Music Like a Grownup"
Do Not Skip Sheet Music!
10 Habits for Reading You Can Use Immediately For Results in 30-Days or Less
Reading sheet music and developing music literacy is about much more than naming the notes. If you've been playing piano for even just a year or so, you may have noticed the bottleneck in your learning is your interaction with the sheet music. That's because the way you are taught to interact with sheet music through almost every "piano method" is designed for children, not adult learners.
BYOM (Bring Your Own music)
You can apply the “Read Music Like a Grownup” tactics to any sheet music, any time, no matter what level of pianist you are. I’ll demonstrate the principles with classical sheet music from my membership, Measure by Measure, but you can apply it to any music on day one. Bring Your Own Music, or use the Measure by Measure library.
Who is this for?
You are a beginner or early-intermediate DIY piano player. You’ve learned to identify the note names, but haven’t been able to turn that into usable information. Learning a new piece of music feels very slow, so it’s easier for you to just memorize things instead of reading them - you’re exactly who this is for and I’m going to change your life with these tactics.
Maybe you’re a returning pianist - you took lessons years ago but always seemed to struggle with reading music. When you were a kid, you didn’t have the same sense of discipline and deliberateness that you have now as a grownup.
Sheet music is not "the hard way"
It is not "the slow way"
If you're like me, you've been inundated with ads for piano education apps claiming great results. Their "AI" teacher, their picture notation, or the interactive "drop-note" software, completely misses point.
A lot of them sell their tricks and ideas with the idea that reading music is "the hard way" to learn music, but ...
The solution to reading music is not to avoid reading music ....
The Solution is to become literate.
Have you ever asked yourself how people learned to play piano before all these silly light-up toys were invented?
They used sheet music! And of course people weren’t smarter than you, they weren’t more talented than you. They weren’t more literate or better at math. They were just looking at the sheet music through a different lens.
Music notation has been around for 1000 years or more
There was a time when every household aspired to have a piano, and on that piano was a stack of sheet music. Composers from all over the world could publish their amazing piano pieces and an amateur pianist across an ocean could play it.
It was the perfect system
There was a time when every household aspired to have a piano, and on that piano was a stack of sheet music. Composers from all over the world could publish their amazing piano pieces and an amateur pianist across an ocean could play it.
But it all went terribly wrong
Instead of teachers using notation to write music for and with their students, some industrious people started to publish "method books".These were a series of books that organized learning in easy modules.
The market determined that the best customer for method books was children. They could design them to be workbooks, complete with cute illustrations. Slowly but surely, piano teachers began to lose the "art teacher" status and became instead taskmasters with sticker charts.
you don't need to be infantilized
Method books resources for adults usually repackaged versions of the ones for children. But grownups want to learn to play piano, not plunk out Old Macdonald.
The approach to learning as a grownup is different than it is for children. You can learn systematically. You can apply concepts across a wide range of contexts, which makes reading sheet music the ideal medium for your learning experience.
More Tech ≠ Better Learning
While technology helps make piano more accessible to more people, it also introduces some challenges. The research is clear that more tech in classrooms hurts learning. The same can be applied to your experience at the piano.
AI is not your teacher and music apps won’t give you reading skills
Reading music is not a problem that can be solved with software, including AI.
Which is Why I made
"Read Music Like a Grownup"
It started a few years ago when I made a course called Sight Reading Secrets. People loved it, and I got all kinds of great feedback.
But what happened was beginners didn't understand that the concepts applied to their experiences with sheet music too.
Real piano freedom is more than just the skill of spontaneous sight reading, it's about absorbing music quickly and musically, being able to choose the music you want.
Total DIY Freedom
Reading comprehension in music is a lot like comprehension in language. The venue for learning that skill is in the music itself, not in an app or a chord book.
Method books and step-by-step apps just make you feel boxed in instead of freeing you to play whatever music you want.
So the concepts inside of "Read Music Like a Grownup" can apply to any piece of music for piano. I'll show you how to practice with your eyes, with your ears, and with your hands so that you have practical skills to apply to any sheet music.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN INSIDE "READ MUSIC LIKE A GROWNUP":
- How to systematically read sheet music (no matter what genre or style) to grow your sheet-music skills along with your "chops".
- All the subtle eye movements and things to look for in your sheet music that will give you confidence reading so you don’t have to constantly memorize your music.
- How to discover your personal musical strength and use it in your music reading, even if you’re usually a play-by-ear person.
- How I use repertoire to build skills just in time, as needed and in context, for faster and more versatile learning.
- My simple solution for looking at sheet music without getting tunnel vision.
- How to take the visually overwhelming symbols on the page and easily turn them into logical patterns in your head.
- Exactly how and when to turn on your musicality in the process of reading music so you don't sound like a beginner. This is the way!
- How to integrate music theory into your daily practice so it doesn't feel like you are constantly procrastinating learning it.
- How I use easy building blocks to unlock sight reading without having to slog through hundreds of meaningless “sight reading” books.
- The exact method for absorbing music effortlessly.
- The steps to putting a piece of music hands together and how to do it "on the fly" instead of playing hands alone for weeks.
- The simple change I made to playing the first note that changed everything for me and my students.
- How to do ear training (no matter what level) with your music reading so you don't become an either/or pianist - you can play by ear AND read music too!
- The genius method I learned from my greatest teachers to improve spontaneous sight reading without having to embarrass yourself trying to sight read in front of people.
- How to organize your practice so you will progress in just a few minutes a day without repeating yourself every day.
- My foolproof method for diagnosing what’s going on with your playing so you can read with ease and step into your musical fluency like reading your native language.
THE "GENESIS OF PIANO"
Even if you’re not into classical music, you must learn this piece!
In this bonus lesson, I want to show you the one piece of music every single pianist should learn, no matter what kind of music you’re interested in.
Ignoring this piece would be like if you were into cars but couldn’t change a tire.
This simple "Bach Prelude in C" is famous not just because it’s beautiful, but because it begins the collection of pieces that demonstrated the true capability of keyboard instruments.
But that's not the reason I want you to learn it. I truly believe it is the BEST piece for practicing the concepts that make or break great Piano Readers. So to demonstrate all the tactics and habits, we'll learn Prelude in C together.
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