Can You Read Music?

When reading the notes, it is very difficult to tell what sound it is going to produce. The only people who can do so are those with perfect pitch, which is an extremely small proportion of the population. On the piano, these notes only tell you what keys to hit. Learning to read music can be very quickly learned and I am positive that you will be able to do so after steadily applying yourself.

I was in the school band in high school so I can read some music. I dont like reading Id rather play by ear.

The music on the sheet (as in your posted picture usually needs to be played out in order to hear it. As for me, I can read it & try it on a guitar. I've known people who can actually hear it ... the singing, each of the background instruments, & then put it on paper like that. On the internet, there are lots of tabs available. It's not really sheet music like what you have in the picture you posted, but maybe a bit easier to follow, as it tells you where to place your fingers to hit those right notes.

I can read music because of choir and playing instruments in the school band. I was a member of the band throughout school. I can tell you that you can tell the score just reading the music.

Yes I can, and it's a wonderful thing to learn for sure! Sheet music tells you which note, on which octave, to hit. It tells you how loud or soft that note should be, relative to all the other notes. It even tells you how the note should be played (plucked, bowed, etc. depending on the instrument). Some people can sing the music before the play it, just from seeing the notes on the page. I couldn't quite get that part down, but I did learn the basics (do, re, mi) to do scales, arpeggioes (spelling?), and break down chords.

I have had five years of piano lessons, so I can read piano music and some guitar (though my hands are too small to get the stretch across the fret board I need for most of the chords!)

one of the things i can be proud of is knowing how to read music. my mom had me take piano lessons at an early age, and i had a pretty tough but good teacher who inculcated the value of learning to read notes. i may not have the gift of playing music by ear, but give me a musical score, even one i haven't heard of, and i could play it on the piano.

hmm sorry, i can't hlep you with reading music... i have no idea... however i am taking a music lit class, but that just teached you about music, and not how to read music.

I can but I have never had the eye hand cordnation to read notes and play the piano. I took lessons when I was 8 I played good but I copied what my teacher played and I can still play that way by coping or by ear.

no i cant read music but have a desire to learn to read it along with feeling it.

I can read music. A childhood spent learning musical instruments does that to a person. :) The stave (the 5 horizontal lines the music is written on) tell you what notes to hit and then the notes indicate how long the note should be held for. My very first music teacher taught me the notes the same way she had learnt as a child. Easily to remember sentences/words for each line/space. The lines of the Treble Clef were - Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit. The Spaces making the word Face. The lines of the Bass clef were 'Girls buy Dolls from Australia', and the spaces were 'All Cows eat grass.' Definetly a helpful technique for kids to learn them, not so sure about adults. Possibly making up more adult like sentences so to speak might help though.