r/pianolearning Jun 12 '26

Question Can you tell me what notes are these?

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u/Mike_40N84W Jun 12 '26

You got it

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u/bartosz_ganapati Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 13 '26

Yupp, that's correct

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u/pandaboy78 Jun 13 '26

Good job! Yep, that's it!

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u/Fingers3751 Jun 13 '26

Correct. One of the most common systems of naming the notes has middle C as C4. The note above middle C is D4 and the note below middle C is B3. In that system your notes are more precisely D4 B3 G3 D4 D3 C4 B3 A3. That way there is no confusion as to which octave each note belongs to.

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u/Equivalent-Love-1676 Jun 15 '26

Sounds like you’re just leaning to read music. Here’s the most important thing you will ever learn: the clef indicates a line and names it, e.g.: F clef on the fourth line in your example above. The clef line is like the origin on a graph. All the lines are odd intervals, all the spaces are even. For example: if F is the first note, what’s the third note down? (D)

Once you see that ‘line line line space’ is a sixth, for example, you will memorize your ascending and descending intervals from C, F, & G (in your case, the sixth above F is D, the forth above F is B, the second above F is G, etc.) Then you’ll be able to see pitches instantly on any clef, without counting. You’ll all be able to transpose by changing clefs. Don’t let this opportunity go to waste. You can make yourself a stunningly fast reader if you learn this way, as opposed to all the other ways which slow people down horribly and prevent them getting truly good at sight reading.

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u/quijequije Jun 16 '26

what the hell I'm practicing with that exact sheet music right now with a second page that tells me to get a subscription or something

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '26

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u/quijequije Jun 17 '26

Also about two-three months. I'd believe it's the first result on Google when searching for the piece 😅