Can you read music?

[Nebulous]

Can you read music?

Was it hard to learn?

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[Katrina]

I can read music! I play the flute and I sing and know the treble clef and struggle with the bass clef. When I was a choir director, I used to know the bass clef a little, but it took me a few seconds to name the notes.

 

[guyyanthony]

i wish.... but it does really interest me

 

[Nebulous]

I can't. I never really took any music classes when I was coming up.

 

[MrDawn]

I was in the middle and high school band so I can read a little bit of it. I was a horrible Clarinet player.

 

[Katrina]

I was in the middle and high school band so I can read a little bit of it. I was a horrible Clarinet player.

We need a staff recital now 😀

 

[Shortie_]

I used to love being involved with music when I was in school and even learned to play a few instruments through my school years as well. I used to be able to read music but I will admit, I have not read any music for a long time and I feel I forgot most of it.

I wouldn't hesitate if I had the time and the money though to go back and learn to read music and play again.

 

[Heatman]

No God Please!! I don't want to run mad 😂. I don't when understand any of the music notes. I tried out being in the church choir once, I lost it immediately being there for a few minutes.

 

[Jason76]

I can read music well, but I don't think reading music is essential to playing in all cases. Anyway, I learned piano music as a kid and later in high school I learned percussion music. I think both of them helped me know tones and the rhythm better. I didn't understand rhythm until I played drums.

 

[Dismal_Bliss]

I can read the treble cleff very well. I can understand bass clef but I don't immediately know the notes. I have to translate it first.

Give me an instrument and music written in treble clef and I can figure it out.

 

[Uncrowned Guard]

The closest I can get is turning the subtitles on at YouTube

 

[Page]

Read it, I can hear it and feel the words and whatnot 🙂 UNless it's on pepper then I can read it 🙂 just don't ask me to sing it 😛

 

[Saphira]

We learned it in secondary school but I forgot some of it. We only did the basic (the notes).

 

[svjiminfxv]

When I was in school, I took a music class for my GCSE and I could read music.
Since leaving school, I haven't played the Piano so I can't read music too well now.

 

[Page]

How hard can it really be?

 

[zappaDPJ]

How hard can it really be?

It's not particularly hard to learn to read, it's just another language. The difficult part is learning to sight-read, playing something you've never played before by reading from the page.

I learned to read music at quite an early age, it was about the only thing I did learn from going to school. I also had a proper job for a short while transposing taped music and written manuscripts into a format that could be sent off to the printers and used as a template for printing off sheet music. There were no computers in those days so everything had to be hand drawn or created using dry-transfer Letraset sheets.

Being able to sight-read got me a lot of work as a session musician in the 70's but these days it counts for nothing. It's probably 30 years since someone asked me to play something from a printed page.