How to read music? Lesson 1. How to focus

[BrentonAkoname]

wtf!! why i am here? i dnt play piano.. does i make any sense in going here? haha but i play guitar thou..

[IACBY]

I love this idea!!! I think this is a fabulous way of learning how to read music.

1. Where can one obtain the program?

2. Would I need a special piano/keyboard?

3. What is the music selection?

4. Does your company have the ability to scan any music sheet and "program it"?

Lastly-I think if this was popularized we would have more people that could properly read music-- have you thought about marketing it through a big company like Wii?

Bravo to the great idea!

[lenkaolenka]

@IACBY Thank you for you kind words.

1. We sale program on our website soft mozart dot com We have it available for English Russian Spanish German Chinese Japanese and Kazakh's speaking community (just different pictures for sounds of music)

2. You would need digital piano/keyboard MIDI compatible

3. We have about 400-500 pieces: from classical to popular (there on our site look at curriculum section song library

[lenkaolenka]

@IACBY Thank you for you kind words.

1. We sale program on our website soft mozart We have it available for English Russian Spanish German Chinese Japanese and Kazakh's speaking community (just different pictures for sounds of music)

2. You would need digital piano/keyboard MIDI compatible

3. We have about 400-500 pieces: from classical to popular (there on our site look at curriculum section song library

[lenkaolenka]

@lenkaolenka 4. We are working on it - looking for investors to step in. We call it 'converter'

I agree that it is a revolutionary idea that could change the way of music literacy. I would like to know about wii. Please, call/write to me (the info on our site) to learn more

[casualtybeats]

in soviet Russia piano play yooouuuuu

[lenkaolenka]

@casualtybeats what soviet russia has to do with this?

[oraygates]

i feel confused mom.... >^^^$^$&@$^$@&

[gumdrops27]

Wow i want this software!

[Franckrenand]

smart and sensitive person. Thank you for your VDO. Franck, Paris.

[brunogigliofreitas]

man, so annoying, focus on teaching

[lenkaolenka]

@brunogigliofreitas man, did you watch it???

it is about how to SEE music notes and to be able to read them

[TheDSforlife]

I love this i am a musician. i have played music all my life since i was nine ,i never learned to ead music .Why? i play the steel band and i learned by ear which is good because it proves music is the universal language i will still love to purchase this good work!!!

[lenkaolenka]

@TheDSforlife Thank you!

[dlognir]

This is great for me, I would purchase this system for sure!

[xdrone08]

This is the best approach to learning music. I love games and jazz but cant read this opens a new door to rapid music learning.

[catazxy]

......aaaaa......die in hell?

[crazingamazing]

One last thing, the idea of changing the page to vertical is excellent. It should be that way. But the colors and the words and the line thickness it's just is too much. Maybe just colors on regular lines, without the words...I think you are in the right direction, but it looks like it is equally confusing, that's all I am saying.

[lenkaolenka]

@crazingamazing I think, if you think that changing page vertical is excellent, you are couple of steps away to get the whole consept. Keys are just extention of Grand Staff. Green - Treble, Bass - brown (colors of a tree), space - blue (air), lines - 'flash' (fingers of Gvido from Arezzo who invented notes in 10th century)

Please, watch my 3 year old students playing Bach and Petzold with that! Thank you for your reply and attention.

[peoplesdad]

@lenkaolenka 

[crazingamazing]

HI, I don't have a web page to sell anything. I am just an experienced teacher always looking for new ideas and this is how I came upon your video. I honestly did try to follow you, but it just seemed so convoluted. I do have a few tricks that I do to help them, and I do agree with you that they have a lot to look at, and process, but with all the colors, words (do re mi) and the line thickness, and with the bar traveling across, well I simply think you have replaced one problem with another.

[crazingamazing]

I am a music teacher and you have replaced what you say is hard to focus on, with an even more complicated system. I just don't get why you think this is better. I think you need to think more like a child. Children can read music if its not rushed. It takes patience from the teacher, and you have to teach in a child friendly way. I don't even think I could read your music and I have been playing for years! Too much confusing information.

[lenkaolenka]

@crazingamazing

Teacher to teacher:

I think, you have to watch more videos from my channel.

I also wish to see your students reading music on yours

[deathcouch]

This chick needs to FOCUS and get to the point. She doesn't even talk about it until like three min in and it's scattered couldn't bear to Finish.

[lenkaolenka]

@deathcouch sorry to keep you waiting! but did u get the point? 

[realjuvelive]

That is Greatest thing Ever! but Where to get like that software?

[lenkaolenka]

@realjuvelive google doremifasoft or soft mozart

[Sweet4439]

haha every time she says focus i cant stop laughing :)

[Sarita41248]

HY! I live in Argentina, and would like to know where to buy the Soft Mozart programme. Thanks

[lenkaolenka]

@Sarita41248

please, go to do re mi fa soft dot com and find 'our store' page

[WonderWomanFan4life]

oh i love to hear you play.

[Lordwanabe]

she lost in first few second.

[zamfreeze]

thanks for this tip....

it very useful to me.....

[sinancans]

what is the name of the second piece u played after Rahman

[thatMikhail]

@sinancans from "Schelkunchik" by Chaikovskiy

[kratex1]

Wow, I saw at least 10 different videos about sheet music, and this is the only one that taught me something. Thank you.

[MiyazakiGrrl0226]

What is the music played at 0:51-0:59? It sound so beautiful and oddly familiar, but I cant remember the name. . . does anyone know?

[enchantingerica]

im pretty sure its 'the nutcracker march'. It's definitely one of the songs i had to sing for choir in december.

[gLeiLy22]

thanks for the video .. it helps a lot.. i hope you make many of tutorials

[slbaaron]

this is great program.. but 2 all those tat thinks too much. vertical readin on real piano wont work, u need to change sheet far too often if each key is represented, or if just like normal sheets cept placed vertically then notes wont go "down", so ur eye sight still need to be moving up and down which is "uncommon" for readin. however i think technology today is enuf to insert a lcd and lil cpu on front, above keyboard. then wouldnt it be so much easier, if notes drop down like guitar hero.

[mercurio0000]

I am a beginner and that is exactly what I did to make it easier on me. I turn the sheets to the right so it can go more with the way my fingers are going on the keys. When the notes move to the right my fingers move to the right; when the notes move to the left my fingers do too.

So I don't know who came up with this music notes stuff but to me its very difficult. We need a new easy system. And may be this is it. The one on this video.

[ExpressStaveNotation]

@mercurio0000 I agree that traditional music notation is way too difficult. I would like you to try my video "Easiest way to learn Moonlight Sonata"

[tchuncly]

Turning the staves to vertical position really seems to help!

I just wonder if having practiced this way one can then read the partiture in horizontal position...

[737flyhigh]

good system ,However because of the food symbols insteat of the note names they keept going to the fridge and eating even when they heard music from any source any where theywould run for food one day they sat on the piano stool and it came crashing down. next they took very expensive spinet piano and flipm it on its side to read the verticle staff on the display.can u help

[Jibbie49]

When I took piano lessons in the 1950's we went once a week and then went home to practice a song that we NEVER heard again until the next week when we went back for another lesson. I find that so sad. My children took SUZUKI violin in the '80s and I played the music tape of the songs for them even when they went to sleep at night. The began by playing "by ear" and didn't learn to read music until age 7 as they started violin at 3.  Your method is good, but HEARING the song helps.

[lenkaolenka]

With this method you can listen to the music you play any time.

[guitarmanbadass]

music is not something thats on books. i deeply respect anyone who plays by ear

[c7rky]

Thanks :D

[TeamJacob415]

@guitarmanbadass I play by ear!!! i really do! I no tik tok, take it off, yeah!, We r who we r, and lots more!!!!

[TheIndigoFlamez]

relatively good program, got me thinking...why are do we read sheet music from left to right, wouldn't it be easier if we WERE actually to play from top to bottom with the notes' direction corresponding with our hands' direction...

[unterlord]

it's Rachmaninov's op3. no.2 in c# minor. lol. this is exactly the song I want to learn most!!! what a co-incidence!!!! Please post a video on how to go about this wonderful relude, pretty please?

[indyrl12]

what does she start to play at the very beginning of the video? i want to hear more of it!

[animaobli]

Lmafo! Its a realy good try but seriously, i lost 100% of my focus with the colors/shapes/upsidedown. The program it self without the add-ons (the colors & shapes) is extremely helpful, anyone can learn piano in hours. I find it disturbing because in the end when you read piano sheets, you won't have it color coded and people always get used to the way they were taught.

[lenkaolenka]

When you teach your child how to read using an ABC book, you are never afraid that the child will learn to read only if there are big colorful pictures in a book, and only 1-2 phrases per page.

[animaobli]

You do have a point =). You always have to start from the begining and work your way up. I just perfer starting a bit ahead xD

[lilmissfortun]

i dont get it either!! how much would it cost if i got a tutor??oh and im 15 by the way am i still able to learn it as eaisily or would it be harder for me to learn how to play the piano now that im older?

[Umbreon47]

this maybe a late comment, but i am 15 now and i am teaching my self via online. Its quite easy if your dedicated. but it takes a long time to get really good. (of course)

[seudonak]

that is ridiculous

does it work?

[lenkaolenka]

Yes.

Watch this blog

[glad10452]

phoucouse ...what is phoucouse ??!!!

[dopemcee]

phokus....find phokuss on wat you concentrate...lol..i love her.

thanks for this video..

[rolipoli]

thank you!

[lawjd96]

right now, i am learning 'hands in G position' and it is a difficult transition because i got used to hands in 'C' position. I am also better at memorizing treble notes than bass notes. can this software really help?

[blueicefairy11]

thanks for this video!!!hey,,,,should I teach teach mi kids with music books that are for children ,,,or is it ok to teach them with a regular adult book?,,,I would love to have your program though!

[imreallynotstupid]

thankx for uploadin im watchin this so that i can read notes faster

[p3rr1g0]

oh shit good one!!! lmao! batteries not included!

[M4aster]

wow she basically made guitar hero for piano. but the dontroller is a real piano. haha niice :)

[grrfu]

and you'd actually be learning piano!

[xoxjohnnydfan]

yo what site is tht????????????????????

[Malaka57]

This is fascinating. I always had trouble sightreading properly, so I learn everything by heart. But I love chamber music... So I am still trying to learn how to sightread properly... Thanks for the help!

[ChristianDavis629]

Woudln't changing the music notation only confuse the beginner? Why not just make the music reading very simple and easy then gradually increase difficulty?

[lenkaolenka]

The same way as we teach children math starting with adding one apple to another apple instead of beginning of a formal definition of the math addition operation. What is simpler than writing 1+1 ?

If you will learn just a little bit about our method, you will see that we did what in the mind of many people, but did it differently! Instead of the standard way of simplifying a song to the set of incoherent boring sounds, we simplified the notation so any child can start playing actual songs.

[joel455d]

What piece are you playing in the very beginning when you talking about concert piano players?

[lenkaolenka]

Rachmaninov Prelude C# Minor

[Thorguitar]

Can you tee me if there is a program for Guitar???

[joescout]

yes i woulld love that

[M4aster]

guitar hero XD hahaha

[animeslover115]

how do u do that on the computer? plz tell me

[lenkaolenka]

Please, watch other videos in this blog and you'll find the answer

[blower05]

Does it use Midi files?

[lenkaolenka]

No, currently the program uses it's own format. MIDI format is not for notation but rather for sound.

[prokid585]

you have the same computer as me!! lol

[garpgump]

This is wonderful. I can see a similar system working for guitar as well. Very cool.

[ASAngelo]

Brilliant! Simply brilliant!

No matter how proficient a sight reader may or may not be - the focus of the eyes(eyesight) is a trained ability.

With your system " ... every beginner could find a focus on notes and provide a link between notes and piano keys."

I agree. It would seem so.

I am subscribing for reference purposes. Perhaps I might find someone who may benefit from your system. Thank you sincerely for sharing your presentation on youtube.

A.S.Angelo

[lenkaolenka]

Thank you very much, Angelo!

EVERYBODY in fact may benefit from this system. All what I am trying to do is to get my message accross.

[still451]

It's a great software..but it's too expensive for me after convert from US dollar..:(

[john1725]

My music lesson for 1 hour costs $35, so I get up to $400 pretty quick. I have brought the Soft Mozart program and found it to be worth the cost of that many lessons easily.

One thing, put the computer screen in front of the keyboard to avoid getting a crooked neck.

[SakiPkkinhu]

meh... the software is way too expensive... for me it would cost about $400. that's sad.

[lenkaolenka]

I agree: the cost of the software looks expensive: it is equal with about 4 months of lessons or 4 dinners in a good restaurant.

The only difference is: you are going to use it for many years every day and learn effectively many pieces and will get ability to read music for life.

[NagualElias]

move over guitar hero we have piano hero!

[itsmusiCc]

i always get a 1 with music lesson at school weird because II LOVEE MUSIC soo and know we're learing that too and ii SUCK ..but you did a good job ;)

[hbwphbwp]

I bought this software and have been using it for a week and I LOVE it!

[parodiesarethebest]

what was that christmas song that you played called?

[lenkaolenka]

'March' from the 'Nutcracker'

[lenkaolenka]

It seems like 'traditional' piano teachers came to see this video and left nusty comments and low rating... How sad((