From the course: Piano Lessons: 3 Sight Reading & Classical Pieces
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Bach, "Minuet in G Major"
From the course: Piano Lessons: 3 Sight Reading & Classical Pieces
Bach, "Minuet in G Major"
- This Bach Minuet in G Major is intended as an exercise in reading standard music notation, hopefully what you've learned up to this point will help you to gain a certain level of fluency in reading regular music notes. So I want you to try this out, and see how you do. Now keep in mind there are some new notations that you might want to become familiar with. The first is the type of repeats, there are two kinds of repeats here. You're gonna see a double line with some dots, and you're gonna see first a number one box on top of one set, and then a number two box right after that. What that simply means is, as you'll hear in the performance if you're following along with the music as I play, you'll hear that I go to first ending the first time then go back to the beginning, then as I play the second time I will skip that number one box and then continue on the number two box. Then the second section has its own set of repeat signs that go towards each other, so just keep that in mind,…
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