Can you teach yourself to read music?
Absolutely anyone can learn to read music with the right approach and some practice. Learning to read music is not hard – anyone who can read the alphabet of everyday language or read numbers already has the tools to learn how to read music. ... And it does so to learn new things and to become more effective at a task.
Is it hard to read piano notes?
Well, it's actually a lot easier than most people realise! When you first look at a sheet of music it's easy to think that it's way beyond comprehension and impossible to learn. ... As long as you can identify the letter name of each note on the music, and then find it on the piano, then you can read music.