Note Reading Practice

Note reading is a speed skill. You either know the note the moment you see it, or you are counting lines while the music keeps going. You do not learn it by understanding it; you learn it by doing it a few hundred times.

The Trainers

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Keyboard trainers, for the first week of the unit:

• Keyboard Identification — you see a note name and click the key.
• Keyboard Reverse — you see a key and name the note.

How to Practice

• Start with the clef you are worse at. Finish on the mixed exercise — that is the one that looks like the quiz.
• Aim for a perfect score twice on each clef, then beat your own time.
• The bass clef is not optional. Your bass lines are written in it.

The Quiz

The music reading and form quiz covers three things:

• Note reading — naming notes in treble and bass clef.
• Form — binary (AB) versus ternary (ABA).
• Tonic and dominant — tonic is home; dominant pulls back home.

Review pages: Music Reading 101 and Melody and Form. A practice quiz is posted in CTLS the day before.