Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Tips for Compiling Sheet Music for Piano and Guitar

For writing music for piano, get sheet music from on-line or local online music store. After getting the blank sheet music, learn the basics of music notation including Clefs: Time Signatures: Key Signatures: Note Values: Pitch Notation: Measure Lines: Repeat Bars etc.

After understanding basic notation, play your piano and start compiling melodies, motifs, chord progressions or random musical thoughts. After compiling ideas link all those with bridge phrases to match a melody to a chord progression and bass line.

Now add more ideas even if it may seem silly at the time. Link the musical phrases and create artistic unity within the song or piece. Now check whether the components of the composition are cohesive and hold the listener to hear more.

To improve the composition, check it later with a new perspective on the work. Finally, when you are done with the composition, play it for a friend to get a feedback. Enjoy writing piano sheet music because not many people are talented enough to do it!

To grow as a musician learning how to read sheet music guitar is a must. So use guitar tabs to know how to read music. For starters tabulating a complete song will be tiresome.

Guitar chord charts are preferred transcription methods for folk, rock, blues and pop projects. Guitar sheet music is used in jazz and classical sessions.

In the guitar sheet music the thumb rule to identify which clef you should play comes from the idea that six string guitar parts are typically in the treble clef and bass guitar parts are typically in the bass clef. To identify the appropriate clef the formula is--treble clef is always written above the bass clef. Lines of the treble clef are from low to high E-G-B-D-F or Every Good Boy Does Fine. The five lines on the bass clef, from low to high, are G-B-D-F-A, or Good Boys Deserve Fudge Always.

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