Reading and Playing Music Notation

Benefits

Link notes, chords, scales, intervals and keys to music notation.

Link music notation to keyboard finger location and patterns.

Use the notated music to analyze musical structure and determine best fingering note fingering.

Link rhythm notation to rhythm patterns.

Play the music using three different fingering patterns: first the scale based on finger 1, then the scale based on finger 2, and finally the scale based on finger 3.

The Music

A useful collection of music is posted at:

http://www.bushtraditions.org/tutors/inrow.htm

The Practice

Select a tune.

Using finger position 1, locate and play the tune's notes. Then play the tune in rhythm at a slow steady tempo. 

Using finger position 2, do the same.

Using finger position 3, do the same.

With practice, increase the tempo of the tune up to dance speed.

Select another tune and do the same steps to play the tune in each finger position.