Read Music Fast for Piano - The Easy Way to Sight-Read Music

A simple & concise method to read musical notes. See notes and play them instantly on the piano!

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Read Music Fast for Piano - The Easy Way to Sight-Read Music
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Nov 2023
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What you will learn

How to read notes and play them instantly on the piano

Name all the keys on the piano

Understand how a piano score works

Train your brain to react to playing notes at speed

Learn the Guide Note Method that will make sight-reading much easier

Why take this course?

Learning to read music is one of the biggest challenges people face when learning the piano, and beginners can often feel overwhelmed when they are first faced with a piano score. Sight-reading notes using the traditional methods is difficult, and people can often spend years struggling to remember the note names. This breeds frustration and holds them back from doing what they really want to do, which is to PLAY beautiful songs on the piano!

But there is a way to easily get over this first stage of learning to read musical notes!

It doesn't have to take years, months or even weeks and can quickly set you on a path of learning piano with fulfillment and fun!

Fast track your piano learning journey using The Guide Note Method. It's easy to understand, effective, and much faster than the traditional methods most music teachers use.

Traditional methods are:

  • Ineffective - You have to memorise certain phrases/mnemonics such as Every Good Boy Deserves Football or All Cows Eat Grass, and remember where to use them on the piano score. Students often get these mixed up, and trying to remember which phrase applies where in the middle of sight-reading a tune is an ineffective approach.


  • Slow - Going through the process of remembering a phrase, working your way towards a note using that phrase, and then finding the correct key on the piano is a slow process. It's not ideal when trying to play many notes at the same time.


  • Only partly useful - They tell you the name of the note, but not WHICH specific key is the correct note to play on the piano.


  • Incomplete - They only show you how to name 18 notes on a piano score, and don't even include "Middle C"!

The Guide Note Method is:

  • Simple - The method used is easy to remember because it focuses on a core of just 10 notes, which give you the ability to speedily play 38+ notes.


  • Effective - It uses a visual approach, working off "guide notes" which is much more effective when sight-reading, as oppose to trying to recall phrases in the middle of playing a tune.


  • Fast - It trains you to react quickly to notes and their positions on the piano, because the note recall process is refined. By the end of the course you'll get to a point where reading the notes is more of a reflex than a memory test.


  • Concise - It focuses on one goal, which is to see a note and play it instantly on the piano. You won't spend 10-20 hours learning vast amounts of musical terminology, but you will learn how to read and play musical notes in a short space of time.

The course has interactive tests that make the process of learning the notes fun! Challenge yourself to improve on your times and see how much you improve as you progress.

There are also Speed Training Drills at each stage as you progress that challenge you to play along to click tracks at various speeds, further improving your sight-reading speed.

It also comes with a 50+ page workbook filled with valuable information and graphics that you can download and print off. It includes supplemental lessons that compliment the video lessons, as well as additional written tests that you can work through to refine your note reading skills even more. Having a physical visual guide alongside the video lessons is an important aspect of a thorough learning process.

This course does not cover how to read different rhythms, key signatures or teach you how to play specific tunes!

What it does do is teach you how to read notes using a fast and effective method, hugely accelerating your piano learning experience so that you can spend your time learning how to play your favourite tunes on the piano!


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Reviews

Dudley
August 27, 2023
This would be a very good course for complete beginners. I did not review the course closely enough before I bought it as I did not learn anything I did not already know, but that was my fault.
Ingmar
August 17, 2023
Es el segundo curso que adquiero de este autor (el primero fue el de Blues para principiantes) y me encanta cómo explica y te mantiene motivado para seguir el curso. Sobre todo, aprendes y lo pones en práctica de inmediato!!!!
Dalphyne
June 25, 2023
The course was easy to understand and there were tests along the way to test knowledge and remembrance,
Jee
February 27, 2023
I've struggled with this for some time now. The course is providing a road map that I can easily remember. Now with practice it will soon become muscle memory.
Scarlet
February 4, 2023
Great way of learning notes using anchor keys to get to know all the keys. Everything covered in a easily constructed format.
Dave
January 23, 2023
I found the concepts to be well founded and the exercises well designed and very helpful. This course truly improved my ability to read music on both staffs. Thanks!
Michael
January 8, 2023
Yes , off an on been trying to learn the piano and read music and I'm starting to like this coarse , cause of the method of teaching.
Radzhab
August 13, 2022
НОТНАЯ ГРАМОТА И ТЕОРИЯ МУЗЫКИ НЕОБХОДИМЫЙ ЭЛЕМЕНТ ОБУЧЕНИЯ ИГРЫ НА ФОРТЕПИАНО. МАТЕРИАЛ ОФОРМЛЕН КОРОТКО, ЯСНО И СНАБЖЕН ГРАФИКОЙ
Mark
March 13, 2022
I could already read music but was slow and sometimes would get confused on notes I knew. I didn't need to go through all the lectures. I went straight to learn the technique and then completed all the tests. My speed improved dramatically very quickly. The final test I did before and after the other tests and managed to halve the time. I feel a lot more confident, thank you Arthur. This is a good course. I have taken years to learn to read music so I appreciate this system and method. It will dramatically reduce the time to learn to sight-read so I highly recommend it if you are considering taking the course to either learn to sight-read or to improve on your current level.
Graham
December 30, 2021
Perhaps this will change as I get better, but I am finding the key note system seems to add an extra step. A bit like learning a language by translating the word from the English word first adds an extra step that makes it nearly impossible to hold a conversation, so adding an extra step means it slows down my sight reading rather than speeding it up. I have found the key notes themselves do help, but it is the extra steps of finding the nearest key note and then moving up or down from it that slows everything down too much for me.
Gary
December 6, 2021
This course teaches an excellent way to learn to read music and provides plenty of drills and exercises.
Ron
November 26, 2021
I like this course. I think it is a good course if you are trying to read music and can't seem to make headway, I think this course shows you a way to get over the hump and make it.
Ricardo
November 14, 2021
Arthur es muy buen maestro , aprendí hasta inglés ! Lo hace fácil por eso tengo ya otros curso . Para los test el piano se equivoca !! Pero todo bien . Gracias por todo y sigo aunque me tarde pero aprendo de verdad .
Varaun
November 13, 2021
Extremely easy to follow the explanations. Animations and diagrams are also very informative and aid in the lecture well
Jaye
September 29, 2021
Good course so far...moving forward past beginner level because the early stuff I'm familiar with already ???

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