Lead Notes Audio Music Description for Lead Sheet Music

Speak the music with this audio description method of reading sheet music. Lead Notes is an easy and cost effective way of using lead sheet music notation. Used by the singer, songwriter, teacher or instrumentalist who wants their sheet music spoken, not written. There is no need to learn clefs, staffs, ledger lines, not heads and flags or other visual sheet music notation, as this method reads the actual tone and timing without having to know it placement on paper. Whether for voice or any instrument, it gives musicians a common verbal language for reading sheet music to one another.

Lead sheets and Fake books provide an easy to read and compressed score for solo, solo with accompaniment or two handed instruments such as piano and guitar, to play the entire piece with its harmony. The melody is generally given within a middle keyboard tone range and in key signatures that are not too complex. The lead sheets will also give the harmony of the music by providing the chord names and changes through the melody. With only one tone to read and harmony given to play as you wish, no wonder they are so popular!

No-C-Notes makes it even easier by reading the chord along with the tone and its timing. The melody and the chord are read with the tone and its timing on the beat the chord starts. The chord is stated not with its individual tones, but with the chord name, such as C or C minor or C seventh and so on. The chord name is stated immediately before the tone and timing it starts on.

Start now with one of the How-To CD, manual or downloads of instruction and chords. Check out our catalog for Lead Notes tunes, they will be labeled Lead Notes for lead sheet music. Can’t find the song you want? Contact us and speedy and special delivery.