Can You Read Music?  

Well i can sort of read it, but i cannot play it for sh*t.

The music tells you which notes you have to play. The notes on the lines arew EGBDF (starting on the bottom line), and in the spaces, it is FACE. I havent got a clue about ones above and below the lines, so dont ask :P

Best to just wait for smeone with a brain, to respond...

I was in the school band in high school so I can read some music. I dont like reading Id rather play by ear.

I can but I have never had the eye hand cordnation to read notes and play the piano. I took lessons when I was 8 I played good but I copied what my teacher played and I can still play that way by coping or by ear.

I'm really bad. I just scraped through music at high school with a 60% mark in theory. I've tried my best, but I am hopeless.

no i cant read music but have a desire to learn to read it along with feeling it.

I can read music. A childhood spent learning musical instruments does that to a person. :) The stave (the 5 horizontal lines the music is written on) tell you what notes to hit and then the notes indicate how long the note should be held for.

My very first music teacher taught me the notes the same way she had learnt as a child. Easily to remember sentences/words for each line/space.

The lines of the Treble Clef were - Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit. The Spaces making the word Face.

The lines of the Bass clef were 'Girls buy Dolls from Australia', and the spaces were 'All Cows eat grass.'

Definetly a helpful technique for kids to learn them, not so sure about adults. Possibly making up more adult like sentences so to speak might help though.

hmm sorry, i can't hlep you with reading music... i have no idea... however i am taking a music lit class, but that just teached you about music, and not how to read music.

one of the things i can be proud of is knowing how to read music. my mom had me take piano lessons at an early age, and i had a pretty tough but good teacher who inculcated the value of learning to read notes. i may not have the gift of playing music by ear, but give me a musical score, even one i haven't heard of, and i could play it on the piano.

I have had five years of piano lessons, so I can read piano music and some guitar (though my hands are too small to get the stretch across the fret board I need for most of the chords!)

When reading the notes, it is very difficult to tell what sound it is going to produce. The only people who can do so are those with perfect pitch, which is an extremely small proportion of the population. On the piano, these notes only tell you what keys to hit. Learning to read music can be very quickly learned and I am positive that you will be able to do so after steadily applying yourself.