I’m really enjoying Jayde MusicaJayde Musica is an interactive online game that is intended to help you learn to read music.  And of course, you need to have good music-reading skills if you are serious about learning how to play piano songs.  As you play Jayde Musica, a little piece of a staff moves from right to left across the screen.  There is a note, or more than one, on the staff.  You click on the letter that corresponds to the note as it passes.  If you go too slowly, you might get reminded to speed up.  Okay, so I know that from experience!  If you get enough of them right, you progress on to the next level, which is harder.  In upper levels, the staff moves faster and there is more than one note on the staff. 

It’s a lot of fun, but most importantly it’s really an excellent teaching tool.  Without this aid, I would approach learning to read music very passively, staring at a line of music and expecting somehow for it to sink in.  But Jayde Musica offers a more active approach.  You have to stay alert and move fast enough.  And when you click on the letter, you commit to an answer.  In those ways, it mimics the way you need to read music when you are learning how to play piano songs.  It’s really fabulous for learning to read music.

Jayde Musica is a free download that is available from Rocket Piano when you purchase the program, or even if you just sign up for the free six-lesson trial.  Since you want to learn how to play piano songs, you have to be able to read music.  Just to have access to Jayde Musica is enough to make it worth your while to sign up for the free trial.  After all, what have you got to lose?

If you try it, leave a comment to let me know how you like it.

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