How to Read Notes With Videos and Music Notes in Color

By reading this page, you will learn to read notes EASILY and QUICKLY. And it’s completely FREE!

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Music Note? Staff? Clef?

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Confused about music notes? You don’t know what is a staff or a music clef? Try our two minutes fun interactive mini tutorial, Staff and Treble Clef (it opens in a new tab):

A mini online interactive tutorial to understand the G (Treble) Clef and the staff (or stave) — Fun and interactive, a mini tutorial to understand the music notes, the staff (or stave) and the G (Treble) Clef

Or just keep reading this page and check the two annotated images about G and F clefs below.

What Clef do You Need to Learn to Read the Sheet Music of Your Musical Instrument?

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The G clef, called Treble Clef, is used with sheet music for piano (right hand), guitar, violin, flute, oboe, clarinets, saxophones, horn, trumpet… For the singers, the Treble clef is used with the following voices: tenor, contralto, alto, mezzo-soprano, soprano.

The treble clef (G clef) is placed on the second line of the staff. So, the music note on the second line is a G. — The G (Treble) clef is drawn from the **second line** of the music staff. So, the music note on the second line is a G.

The F clef, called Bass clef, is used on sheet music for piano (left hand), cello, double bass, bass guitar, bassoon, trombone, tuba, timpani… Baritone and bass voice use the Bass clef too.

The bass clef (F clef) is placed on the fourth line of the staff. So, the music note on the fourth line is a F. — The F (Bass) clef is drawn from the **fourth line** of the staff. So, the music note on the fourth line is a F.

How do You Want to Name the Music Notes: A B C D E F G or DO RE MI FA SOL LA SI?

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Mainly used in Anglo Saxon countries (and so in jazz), the alphabetical musical notation uses the letters of the alphabet: A B C D E F G.

The Syllabic musical notation – DO RE MI FA SOL LA SI – is used by Italian, Portuguese, Greek, French, Russian, Flemish, Romanian, Spanish, Hebrew and Turkish people.

A = LA
B = SI
C = DO
D = RE,
E = MI
F = FA
G = SOL

If you want to learn more (you don’t need it to learn to read music notes), follow name of music notes.

Learn to Read Notes With YouTube Videos

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We are going to see how to learn to read music in treble clef. But you’ll be able to change to Bass Clef later if you wish.

Watch Your First Video to Learn How to Read a New Note!

We have videos about the Treble clef (G clef) both for A B C and Do Re Mi with 2 notes to read (G and C) and you can watch them if you want but usually people find 2 notes too easy to read.

So, let say you can already read G and C and now you’re ready to learn a new note: E. This new note is displayed in color to help you to recognise it.

If you want to learn to read music notes with A B C D E F G (alphabetical notation), watch the first video below (G, C and E)…

…but if you want to learn to read music with DO RE MI FA SOL LA SI (syllabic notation) watch this one below (Sol, Do and Mi):

Too easy with only 2 notes ? Jump to 3 notes! Or 4 notes! Or even 10 notes!

Once you can read 3 notes, you’re ready to add a 4^th note!

Learn to read 4 Music Notes!

Launch the video below to name the new note D (alphabetical notation)…

… or launch this one to name it RE (syllabic notation)

The videos above plays the notes C/DO, G/SOL and E/MI learned in the previous video in black and add the new note D/RE in color to aid you to recognise it.

When you can read the 4 notes easily without the help of color, it’s time to add a 5^th note to read!

Learn to read 5 Music Notes!

Choose between the two following videos below to name the new music note to read F or FA:

The videos above play the 4 notes C/DO, E/MI, G/SOL and D/RE learned in the previous videos in black and add the new note F/FA in color to aid you to recognise it easily.

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How to read the musical readings ?

To learn to read notes, you must say or sing the name of each musical note AT THE SAME TIME as you hear it.

As Happy Note!’s musical readings are displaying the name of every note when they play them, you can check if you are reading them correctly.

Choose your Favorite Way to Learn to Read Music

– I just want to keep learning to read notes this way

Choose your clef and notation below. Or you can use the menu Music Reading.

Treble (G) Clef

Treble Clef: Alphabetical notation A B C D E F G (16 videos)

Treble Clef: Syllabic notation Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si (16 videos)

Bass (F) Clef

Bass Clef: Alphabetical notation A B C D E F G (audio only, videos coming soon)

Bass Clef: Syllabic notation Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si (audio only, videos coming soon)

– I want learn to read music notes with a game

Try the online game Read Music Notes HN working with any device You can learn to read music both in Treble Clef and Bass Clef, both with A B C and DO RE MI.

Learn to read in G (treble) and F (bass) clef with or without the help of color — Learn to read music easily and quickly, with or without the help of color notes.

– I want something with even more fun

Sure! Try our video game Sheet Music Treble Clef and Bass Clef HN with tons of options!

A true video game to learn to read music notes the fun way! Treble Clef and Bass Clef, Do Re Mi and A, B, C, tons of options. — With Sheet Music Treble Clef and Bass Clef HN you can choose the music notes you want to learn or improve. A true video game with Lives, Hi-Score, Beginner and Expert Mode, Dynamite Stick (optional), etc.

– I want more choice for the speed of each musical reading

You find the musical readings too slow or too fast? Have a look at Read Music Notes Sing’n Learn HN. The program offers a choice of 5 different speeds: Largo, Adagio, Andante, Moderato, Allegro.