Reading: Learning Note Values

Teacher: Joe Porcaro Length: 13 min Category: Reading

The most important part of this lesson is to learn the note values at sight. Test yourself by naming all the notes on page six of the download and fill in the worksheet test on page five.

Reading: Whole, Half, Quarter Notes and Rests in 4/4

Teacher: Joe Porcaro, Ralph Humphrey Length: 10 min Category: Reading

This is a review lesson of everything you have learned so far. Put in the bar lines on page 1 and play the exercises on page 2, 3 and 4 starting slowly and eventually playing them at the suggested metronome marking of 82-100 or faster if you can. After you play each exercise twice, you should go down the entire page as if there were no repeat signs and you were playing one long piece of music. Another good exercise is to write your own exercises to play.

Reading: Whole, Half, Quarter Notes and Rests in 4/4 | Download Exercise

Teacher: Joe Porcaro, Ralph Humphrey Length: Category: Reading