How To Read Sheet Music Piano Left Hand

The e is a space note.

How to read sheet music piano left hand. So your hand should be on the keyboard with your thumb on middle c. The top staff is usually marked with a treble clef and typically played with the right hand while the bottom staff is usually marked with a bass clef and typically played with the left hand. Once again we are going to read the sheet music score for this piece. Music is made up of a variety of symbols the most basic of which are the staff the clefs and the notes.

Reading the bass clef requires you to know where a few key notes hit the scale whereby finding the rest will be very straightforward. However this time there is going to be one big difference in the sheet music. The top stave shows the notes that should be played with the right hand whilst the bottom stave shows the notes to be played by the left hand. Depending on how adept you are the right hand can fill in some of the harmony too.

Draw middle c on the bass clef staff. Notes are written on or above or below the stave which are the 2 sets of five lines one for the right hand and one for the left hand. Learning your first left hand piece. After you ve memorized all of the letter names on the lines and spaces for your right hand the treble clef you can move on to reading piano notes on the bass clef where the notes on the lines and spaces will be played with your left hand.

Once you have had a few goes at this you are ready to learn your first left hand piece. Learn the basic symbols of notation. Usually but not always the top stave is written in the treble clef and the bottom stave is written in bass clef. To play this piece we are going to start with the left hand in the position we have just been trying.

They are placed to the left of a note head and indicate that the note to follow is played a half step semitone higher for a sharp or a half step lower for a flat. When you re beginning to read music it s easiest to think of the sharps and flats as the black keys. All music contains these fundamental components and to learn how to read music you must first familiarize yourself with these basics. Typical piano sheet music piano music tends to have 2 staves.

We call the notes written on the lines line notes and notes written between the lines space notes. In this example the first note is e. The c scale as we learned comprises the white keys on the piano. Open the lesson lean on me left hand or alternatively look at this score.

All notes written in the bass clef are usually played with the left hand on the lower registers of the piano. Middle c lies in the gap between the staves on an imaginary line. This will mean doing the melody in the right hand while the left hand fills in the harmony and bass. Identify the first note by using the rhymes.