improve my music reading

Start reading easy notation and write the tone beneath the note (tone on the fingerboard E, G, B etc.) if you have to. THere is really no way to learn except start reading it.
good luck,
/lovebown

 

Back in the day composeres wanted a staff with enought lines to cover all the notes sung by all voices/ This staff has 11 lines and 10 spaces. They found that this many lines were rather diffucult to read and many lines were unnessary for different voices except for middle c. So they broke it into two the bottom 5 lines created the bass clef, the top five are the treble clef and the one line left over in the middle is middle c.

 

I dont think I can add much more than what the others did. Do you have staff paper? If not get some. Write the bass clef symbol and then some random notes (nothing wacky, try to keep it in the same area on your bass, and start with quater notes) work on that till you can write stuff and say yeah thats an A, then C, then a G.

 

I've been playing violin for about 5 years and just recently I wanted to take double bass as well. What really helped me was a beginner book. It starts out with a couple of notes and as you progress it adds more notes for you to play. It will also teach you dinamics and speeds. A really great way to learn notation better. Another method i was tought but i never tried is flash cards. to me it was a hastle and good luck trying to flip and play at once. One of the main factors here is time. Even with out the book or the cards you will get better with time.

 

What he said . What helped my reading most was writing. Try transcribing stuff from CDs.

 

I would recommend learning to read the bass clef, the same way you learned treble. I can read treble easily, but I've been working on bass. Few notes at a time is my best advice. Even if you are playing lame stuff like hot cross buns, it helps towards the learning process.

 

Great site; I learned sheet music from it.
http://libster.com

 

This was called a Great Stave.... There's also an Alto clef which middle C is on the 3rd line, just to really get you going

I think this is for alto instruments, like some saxaphones, oboe, clarinet

If you ever see it it looks like a big B, but it's only used in orchestras

{End Maurice's thought for the day}

 

ahhh, I see
Well shows how much I know

Least I tried, thanks for clearing that up for me

Spose It'll be a while before I'm a fully qualified Jedi