| The sheet music containing the musical notation is | | | | The greatest thing that you can do first is learn |
| by far the best way to learn new songs | | | | to sight-read the notes of famous songs that you |
| thoroughly. People who have trained in reading | | | | already know by heart. To begin with, learn to |
| sheet music can play a new song instantly if they | | | | play the songs on the piano through some means. |
| are given the sheet music. Learning to read the | | | | This way you will know the notes and the |
| sheet is very important part of learning the piano, | | | | duration. Next, take up the sheet music for the |
| and here is how you can do it fast. | | | | song and go through it. Knowing the basics of |
| Reading the sheet music might take a long time. | | | | notation and the clefs would be a mandatory, |
| Playing from it will take longer. But all this if you | | | | though. |
| do not know how to do it smart. Some people go | | | | This way, you will get a feel for the notes and |
| to regular classes to learn piano, but sight-read | | | | the durations automatically. Furthermore, what |
| poorly. Some learn all by themselves and yet, are | | | | happens when you do it this way is that the |
| good readers. The reason for this discrepancy is | | | | note-data that your eye sees directly gets |
| that sight-reading is not some mechanical, robotic | | | | transferred to your fingers! These days, even |
| process. If you treat it as a natural and easy | | | | piano learning softwares help you out in learning to |
| process, you would not find any difficulty in | | | | read sheet music through such interesting |
| learning to sight read. | | | | processes. |