Reading Musical Notes (pitch)
This page is to help you with the basics of reading musical notes.
Here are a few diagrams which can help you. Please feel free to print this page if it is helpful.
These are the first five notes that are normally learned:
(Of course it varys depending on which instrument your child is learning)
And this is the rest of the first octave, to make the first scale, the C Major Scale:
If learning the piano using the “hands together on middle C approach” the first notes learned will be:
Or if using the alternative approach of two hands both starting on C the next notes will be:
Once they have been learning for a while, the piano student should know all the notes that cover this range:
