#THINK OF ME SHEET MUSIC HARP HOW TO#
Also, the sheet music can become a ‘crutch’ for many people – if you can’t play any tunes without the sheet music in front of you, or you couldn’t pick up a song from the radio and work out how to play it, it might be time to focus on training your ears more. However, the process of learning to read music can be fairly slow, and definitely takes much longer than learning by ear to reach the point where you’re playing recognizable songs. Your fingers will know just where to go, and when, and you can pick up any song in a matter of minutes! Thus, when compared to learning by ear, more tunes can be ‘learned’ in a limited amount of time. Once you understand how to read music, you can read pretty much any piece just like reading a book. Probably the biggest advantage to learning to sight read is the simple fact that you’ll be able to play literally anything you can get your hands on. From that foundation, it is largely a matter of how experienced you are at reading music in determining how quickly and accurately you absorb the new tune. All of that information is effectively available at once to the holder of ‘the dots’. scale runs and arpeggios), articulation, phrasing, whether or not to repeat certain sections, whether or not there are second endings, and if you have some music theory background, what key the tune is in. Sheet music provides a large amount of crucial information almost instantly: the metre (or time signature), the specific melodic notes to be played, the specific grace-notes to be played, the basic rhythm all of those notes require, important beat groupings, visually obvious melodic patterns (e.g.
Sheet music doesn’t just tell you what notes to play it also tells you when to play them, when not to play, what the rhythm should be, when you should get louder, or softer, and what speed you should go at. No small amount of effort has been spent trying to become equally skilled at playing from written music and playing by ear and because both approaches have been so fruitful in my career, I encourage a similar balance among my students. Sometimes my work involves playing music that has been transmitted entirely aurally and conversely, sometimes it requires me to read or write complex scores. Since starting piano lessons at the age of eight, and then the Clarsach (celtic harp) aged twelve, I have been exposed to many different ways of learning and later teaching music. Reading music, of course, is the ability to “read” musical notes, rhythm and dynamics on sheet music, and play a piece accurately Playing by ear is the ability to hear a piece of music and play it without looking at sheet music. One of the most common questions I get asked is whether learning by ear or reading from sheet music is more important when learning the harp.
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