Music: The Importance of Reading Music
With all of the great music that come out, in all genres, it never strays too far away from the fundamentals. In music, the fundamentals are music theory and the ability to read and interpret music. A music teacher I once had always said, 'Musicians can read music...' and I believe that to be true. I also believe that music education is a valuable thing for all children.
The piano is a great instrument on which to learn music; reading music, music theory as well as manual dexterity. I found a a great site for piano sheet music, piano lessons and general information. The website has great information and tools for all experience levels.
The first benefit, in the process of reading piano sheet music, is that a student will learn where every note is placed on the piano or any instrument. When playing with other musicians, students acquire the knowledge that will allow them to play in any key, because they learned the root note and from there, can determine which scale to play. Reading music teaches the student the tonal value of any given note and where the notes can be found.
Equally important to this matter is the fact that the ability to read piano sheet music teaches the student, by assigning a time value to each given note, how to develop the discipline of counting out whole, half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes, which in turn allows the musician to create musical nuances that are important when playing.
After many hours of reading sheet music, rhythm becomes intrinsic and listening skills improve because stimulating the visual sense as well as the auditory reinforces the musicians' musicality. After all, music is a language and like any language to be fully understood, it must be read, practiced, and written. When the language of music is fully understood, it is easy to translate this skill to other instruments.
Composition, or the process of writing music, is the core of any musical artist, and while it is not necessary to know how to read or how to write musical notation, the ability to do so will inherently enhance a musicians' original works.
The discipline of reading musical notation is a skill well-worth learning for any musician. You can find lots of piano sheet music and more information > here.
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