How to read Music? (+rep!)

[AgnesIO]

No,
When you read music there are lines.
The music notes are placed on these lines.
Different lines mean different parts on the instruments, so for guitar music they'd be strings ect.
So if you put quavers on for instance the top line, they'd be E in guitar music or D in clarinet or whatever.

You don't need to talk to me like I am an idiot.

The notes on the stave are universal. If the quaver is in between the top two "lines" on treble clef it is an E..

[Circadia]

Depends on what instrument you want to play, when I started playing the flute my tutor taught me a way of remembering the basic notes by using somthing called 'f,a,c,e' for the treble spaces (the gaps in the stave) And ' Every Good Boy Does Fine' for the treble lines (the lines on the stave) So its like this: Sorry if you don't understand! But its the only way I really know how to describe it, the other way you could do it is just write notes underneath the notes, but this isn't good because you don't actually learn it and you rely on the letters being there! But you generally don't need to know how to read music if you want to sing..

[grain]

You don't need to talk to me like I am an idiot.

The notes on the stave are universal. If the quaver is in between the top two "lines" on treble clef it is an E..

Okay.
All i'm trying to say is if you know how to read one type of music it will be really confusing to read another.

[AgnesIO]

Depends on what instrument you want to play, when I started playing the flute my tutor taught me a way of remembering the basic notes by using somthing called 'f,a,c,e' for the treble spaces (the gaps in the stave) And ' Every Good Boy Does Fine' for the treble lines (the lines on the stave) So its like this: Sorry if you don't understand! But its the only way I really know how to describe it, the other way you could do it is just write notes underneath the notes, but this isn't good because you don't actually learn it and you rely on the letters being there! But you generally don't need to know how to read music if you want to sing..

NOOOOO it is "Every Good Boy Deserves Football"!! And bass clef is "Golden Butterflies Don't Fly Away"!!

Not that it matters but anyway lol

[Circadia]

NOOOOO it is "Every Good Boy Deserves Football"!! And bass clef is "Golden Butterflies Don't Fly Away"!!

Not that it matters but anyway lol

:L I know that one as well but that was the first one that came into my head

[AgnesIO]

Okay.
All i'm trying to say is if you know how to read one type of music it will be really confusing to read another.

All I'm trying to say is, how on earth is it any more complicated?

If you can read one book in English, you can read another book by a different author in English?

It is not difficult, nor confusing.

Unless you are referring to the different clefs. In which case guitar and flute would have been terrible examples.

[Alex3213]

Okay.
All i'm trying to say is if you know how to read one type of music it will be really confusing to read another.

No this is wrong and the only argument which can possibly make this right is the range of an instrument (for example the piano goes from an A to a higher A 7 octaves higher whereas a flute goes from Middle C to a C 3 octaves higher). There are different clefs however but the two instruments you chose which were the piano and flute both use the treble clef (kk the piano does use the bass clef but because you see a new symbol you'll obviously be curious and know they won't mean the same thing) so I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

As for learning to read music, practice, practice, practice. First of all you need to know how high you can sing: as you're female I'll assume that you're a soprano! Just try to understand where the notes are first before going to values of notes. It does come second nature to you but I assure you you have to work at it for the first couple of weeks otherwise it just seems tiresome as 6 weeks down the line you're still struggling with a couple of notes because you don't practice! Make sure if you do decide to take singing lessons that you maintain your enthusiasm, don't let it die off because I can assure you the only way you will get a lot (key words here, I never used to practice... tut tut) better is by "keep on going"!

[Circadia]

Oh and young people shouldn't really take singing lessons as your voice is still developing and therefore could damage your voice in the long run.

[Eoin247]

There are different types of music for different type of instruments,
For instance guitar music will look like they have the same notes (crochets, minums, semi-quavers ect) as clarinet music but they are different notes played in different ways.
So if you learn piano music don't go try read flute music for instance,
but learning music is really easy though you usually don't need it for singing,
if you get a teacher/book/video tutorial you will be able to pick it up within days.

Are you trying to say the flut doesn't use quavers, crotchets etc? If so, errrrr what?

No,
When you read music there are lines.
The music notes are placed on these lines.
Different lines mean different parts on the instruments, so for guitar music they'd be strings ect.
So if you put quavers on for instance the top line, they'd be E in guitar music or D in clarinet or whatever.

All I'm trying to say is, how on earth is it any more complicated?

If you can read one book in English, you can read another book by a different author in English?

It is not difficult, nor confusing.

Unless you are referring to the different clefs. In which case guitar and flute would have been terrible examples.

I think grain was talking about the clefs. Grain should have made that clear though.