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A tune from the page
One more look at what you missed.
The Ode to Joy, this time from the page.
You may have played it by finger numbers. On the staff, it starts on the bottom line.
No sound? Check your volume, and that your phone is not on silent.
Its first notes climb from the bottom line to the second line.
E, E on the bottom line, F in the space above, G on the second line. Then the same steps come back down.
Play the start and picture the staff: E E F G.
Right hand in C position, thumb on middle C. Then come back down: G F E D.
The first phrase ends just under the staff. Which note?
A melody is read one note after another, left to right.
Look at the next note while you play this one. That is how reading turns into playing.
Play the first note, and let your eyes move on to the next ones already.
Steps on the page are steps under your fingers.
Line to the next space is the next finger. Line to the next line skips a key, and skips a finger.
Bottom line E, then second line G: which fingers?
You can read a tune and play it.
What you learned
- A melody is read left to right, with the eyes a note ahead.
- Line to the next space is the next key and the next finger.
- Line to the next line skips one key and one finger.
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