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Author: anne
Date: 2003-05-06 18:01
Anyone know of some good books for improving sightreading? (For late high-school/college level students).
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Author: Bob A
Date: 2003-05-07 00:25
Ken, sorry but can't get either one of these url's to come up. What am I doing wrong?
Bob A
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Author: Pam H.
Date: 2003-05-07 02:37
I agree with Mark. It doesn't take anything special to sightread. Just about anything that you haven't played before in the appropriate skill level. Keep doing it on a regular basis. Sometimes when I'm waiting my turn for a lesson, I just find something and do a little sightreading on whatever I happen to grab.
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Author: Benni
Date: 2003-05-07 03:09
One of my friends who plays French horn says that her teacher often uses this exercise:
-Take a piece of music you know
-Turn the page upside-down
-Play it as if it weren't upside-down
I've tried it a few times and it's really interesting how a piece sounds "in reverse," plus, you're pretty much guaranteed never to have heard it that way before, so it's all up to your reading skills!
BTW, she told me that in keys other than C major, one is to play the piece in the original key, even though the key signature looks different upside-down. (Example: If the piece is in G major, still play F#s, not E#'s.)
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2003-05-07 04:03
Sight transposing would help too. It's a skill that should be worked on as well. Read it as though it were in the key of C (and transpose to Bb). Or in the key of G (and transpose to Bb). Try reading it as though it were in the key of A (and you didn't have an A clarinet so you had to transpose to Bb!). The only thing here is that it'll sound the same if you do it correctly, just in a different pitch. That way you'll end up "knowing" what the next note should sound like and it's more predictable than true sightreading.
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2003-05-07 05:23
Any book with a bunch of etudes or studies should work just fine. Sit down (maybe with a metronome) and play through one or two a day, making yourself go without stopping. I'd recommend getting a book that is one level (arbitrary term, I know) below what you can reasonably play, so you don't overwhelm yourself. If you have a teacher, they probably have a bunch of books like this to lend you.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: allencole
Date: 2003-05-07 09:25
One book of possible interest might be Tunes For Clarinet Technic (Book 3) from Belwin's Student Instrumental Course. Book 2 isn't shabby, either. This series of books isn't very difficult, but might do much to expand your internal inventory of common-knowledge songs.
Allen Cole
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Author: BobD
Date: 2003-05-07 12:51
I have no problem getting either of the referenced sets of links to "come up" but wonder why putting "test" in there works!
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2003-05-07 13:38
I put up the links with sub-references that were supposed to take you directly to my posting, down in the thread. That's what the "search" function returns. Unfortunately, Mark tells me that his spam/virus filters reject this. He edited my links, so they work now.
Thanks, Mark.
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2003-05-07 14:06
Try the Paul Harris Improve Your Sight-reading! books published in Great Britain by Faber Music publishing. They are excellent and I use them for all grade levels!
David Dow
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2003-05-07 14:39
Ken Shaw wrote:
> I put up the links with sub-references that were supposed to
> take you directly to my posting, down in the thread. That's
> what the "search" function returns.
If you have "threaded view" on it'll open the right one(s).
I've added a "check the filter in the search results & fix" to my "to-do" list ... sure wish I could work on this system full-time
You should be finding that searches run significantly faster now ... new database box is online.
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-05-07 22:28
Sightreading is something you either do instinctively or you work hard at. Some players have prodigious memories (and are not so brilliant at sightreading) or have dreadful memories (and are brilliant sightreaders). Do not worry if your sightreading is "slow" it can be improved but with practise - no book on sightreading will help you! just pick up unknown music and play it - the more practise the more facility you'll get.
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Author: BobD
Date: 2003-05-08 12:24
Sightrreading is like investigating a crime......look for clues. That is, "read" the music first looking for tempo changes, incidentals, key changes, fingering problems etc etc. Imagine playing the music while you do this.
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