## Repeat Sign

A repeat sign is a double bar line with two dots. Play up to it, then go back to the matching sign facing the other way — or to the beginning if there is none — and play the section again.

The dots always face the music to be repeated. That one detail is enough to read any repeat correctly, including the ones nested inside a longer form.


## How To Spot Repeat Sign

A thick and thin bar line with two dots stacked either side of the middle line.


## Find It In Thirty Seconds

Find a repeat in any piece and trace the route with a finger before playing: forward to the sign, back to its partner, forward again. Sight-reading repeats wrong is a navigation problem, not a playing one.

Open any piece of sheet music on this site and do it now. Reading is a recognition skill, and recognition is built by finding things, not by reading about them.