Kitchieboy's Music Tutor Learning to Read Music (But Not Enough to Hurt Your Playing)

Putting It All Together - A Tune When starting to read music, I think it helps to use tunes you already know. Due to shifts in emphasis in American public schools away from music education to core subjects like football and basketball, you may not have learned the old American public school classics like "Red River Valley", "Oh Susannah", "Camptown Races", "Golden Slippers" or "Old Chisholm Trail", or even such common classics as the Toreador's March from Carmen, the Triumphal March from Aida, or Ride of the Valkyries - though you probably know them from Bugs Bunny cartoon sound tracks. So I'll use some grade school classics from the back of the school bus. Folk songs no one ever taught you, at least not officially, but that but you probably do know. There is no midi or sound file. You will learn better working it out for yourself.

(The double bars with two dots are repeat signs. When you get to the one at the end, go back and start over again.) For even more practice, this time in 6/8 time.......

If you are playing these on a hammered dulcimer, fiddle, mandolin, tinwhistle, etc., did I mention that you can play them in other keys? You could also try playing all the verses. Or as many as you can stand. It's good practice if you are a beginner. Next - More 6/8 and some 3/4

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