If you are interested in reading music then you must first learn music notes. You will never be able to comprehend music correctly if you don’t understand basic music notes such as the base or the rests. In fact, musical notes tell you the melody as well as the harmony. In short, there is no shortcut to reading music if you don’t know how to read the notes.

Learning to read all music notes is just the bare essentials of reading music. There is much more to learn before you can actually start playing an instrument. You need to know all the fine details of each and every note.