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Reading sheet music, how does that work?

When you want to play music, it can be very helpful to be able to read sheet music. It's
a universal language!

Musical notes

A musical note indicates how long you should blow (note duration), but also which
fingers to use (pitch).

Try to blow the lines and dots shown below:

Staff

Music notes are placed on a staff, which consists of five lines stacked on top of each
other. The bottom line is the first line, and the line at the top is the fifth line.

Whole note

4 counts

Half note

2 counts

Quarter note

1 count

With musical notes, it would look like this:

Summary of Contents for ADAPTIVE TRAVELSAX 1

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Page 2: ...l pieces in this book include chord symbols which can be used by your teacher or fellow musicians to accompany you on the piano or guitar Some of the compositions have playable tracks available in MID...

Page 3: ...long you should blow note duration but also which fingers to use pitch Try to blow the lines and dots shown below Staff Music notes are placed on a staff which consists of five lines stacked on top o...

Page 4: ...r of beats A song ends when you encounter the double line the end bar The first three notes The higher the dot of the note is on the staff the higher the note that you re playing will sound Every note...

Page 5: ...iddle finger you get a note that sounds a little lower than before Therefore this note also lies lower on the staff This note is the note A Try playing this now B A B A B A B A B A A B B A A B A B B A...

Page 6: ...sounds even lower This note is placed on the second line of the staff and is called the note G Practice G A G A G A G A G A B A G A B A G G B G B G B G B G B A B G B A B G G G B B A A G G G G B B A B...

Page 7: ...6 4 G A B Au clair de la lune Mary had a little lamb Are you able to play the following passages by taking another breath at the comma Play each note calmly...

Page 8: ...4 You can also play notes with your tongue by briefly touching your teeth when you blow the note 9 4 DUET This song is a duet In duet songs you can play the notes written on the upper line while your...

Page 9: ...in every measure Create a nice ending for this song einde Play every note loudly Play every note softly Play and hold onto every note for a long amount of time Play and hold onto every note for a sho...

Page 10: ...9 Red Robin Song 15 14 11 16 14 11 17 14 11...

Page 11: ...10 18 Ap ple pear ap ple pear ap ple pear fruit Ap ple pear ap ple pear ap ple pear fruit 21 Mary hold on tight 20 19...

Page 12: ...11 Practice C B C B C B C B C A C A C A C A C G C G C G C G C B A B C B A B C Old Jan and young Jan Put the bar lines at the right places 23 22 Track 8...

Page 13: ...12 Promenade The snail and the hare play this song faster and faster as you go 24 25...

Page 14: ...a little curve slur above the notes you start the first note with your tongue You blow through the other notes without stopping while changing your finger to the correct position This is called tying...

Page 15: ...G A B C D and D C B A G You go up and down the stairs again 29 30 The yellow dot indicates that you should also press the button for the D So you play the D with your fingers like a G but also with th...

Page 16: ...15 34 35 32 36...

Page 17: ...se a few abbreviations to indicate this The term D C al Fine means that you must start playing again from the beginning of the piece until you reach the point marked Fine Fine indicates the bar after...

Page 18: ...17 Can you blow and hold onto a note for more than 10 seconds Practice playing this a few times E F E F E F Practice playing this a few times D E F E D 38 39 40 41...

Page 19: ...You ll play in a low high low high pattern For this you need to alternate with the button Practice playing these notes a few times F G F G F G Practice playing the following notes a few times E F G F...

Page 20: ...19 Test Flight D C al fine 47 48 46 FINE...

Page 21: ...our sixteenth notes together have the note duration of one beat This means that two sixteenth notes will have the same duration as half a beat 49 Sixteenth notes Notes Whole Half Quarter Eighth Sixtee...

Page 22: ...onsists of 6 beats where one eighth note accounts for one beat That also means that the quarter note will now have a note duration of two beats A quarter note with a dot beside it has a note duration...

Page 23: ...hen it has a symbol beside it If it has the sharp symbol beside it then the pitch of the note will be one semitone higher When the sharp symbol is located at the beginning of the song at the clef the...

Page 24: ...The name of the note changes when it becomes sharp In music we add the word sharp after the name of the original note F becomes F F sharp C becomes C C sharp G becomes G G sharp etc Play G Gis G Gis G...

Page 25: ...written by using letters from the alphabet In the same way music is written from notes that belong to a chosen key Sometimes that key has one or more sharps in it But not all notes in a key have to be...

Page 26: ...ef That means that these notes will be sharps during the entire song 1st F becomes F 2nd C becomes C but when you look carefully you may see that there actually are no F sharps in this song That s rig...

Page 27: ...C D b Play G A B C D this sounds a little more bluesy than G A B C D minor In the same way a makes a note a semitone higher there is also a symbol that makes a note a semitone lower the FLAT symbol F...

Page 28: ...ATTENTION There are two flat symbols notated at the clef in the next piece this means that these notes should be played as flat notes throughout the whole piece Every B becomes a Bb and every E become...

Page 29: ...nes on the staff When the notes don t fit onto the staff anymore the staff is extended with extra lines You can play these extra high notes by also pressing the button on the back of the TravelSax In...

Page 30: ...G B A G F G A F A v Play exercises 16 17 and 18 first low and then high using the octave key v Can you also play Mary Had a Little Lamb with the extra high notes Start by playing B A G A B B B v Prac...

Page 31: ...30 62 63 D C al fine FINE FINE...

Page 32: ...the eighth note from the lower octave will be the same note again The key of Bb major pay extra attention it has two flats For the next key it is important that you can jump between octaves from a lo...

Page 33: ...32 65 66 67 5...

Page 34: ...note s duration is increased by half of it Its rhythm can sound a bit like you re skipping around Lang zal ze leven Alouette A dot placed right after a note always means that that note s duration has...

Page 35: ...u ve already learned that a slur above a few notes indicates that you should play the notes together legato When a dot is placed above a note it indicates that you should play that note very shortly T...

Page 36: ...35 My bonnie is over the ocean 67 73 74...

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Page 38: ...37 Tambourin M Corrette 76...

Page 39: ...38 Fingering chart and theory Here you will find a summary of everything you have learned in this book so far...

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Page 43: ...te by a half tone 1st F becomes F 2nd C becomes C 3rd G becomes G FLATS lower notes by a half tone 1 B becomes Bb 2 E becomes Eb 3 A becomes Ab A dot increases the note duration by half Whole Half Qua...

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