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Author: KristinVanHorn
Date: 2006-07-30 22:28
I've been playing for 4 months. so when should i start learning to sight read or does it just come with experience?
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Author: Lynn
Date: 2006-07-30 22:45
Kristin,
When you stop and think about it......you sight-read every single time you sit down in front of a new piece of music to begin the "learning" process. No person, irregardless of how long they've been playing, has ever played EVERYTHING.
It's my personal experience to always try and enjoy sight-reading. Make it a mental challenge to play the subject music as perfectly as possible the first time through. Skip the tough sections that require the requisite "woodshedding", but attempt to keep the music flowing from beginning to end.
I'm one of the lucky people that get to study privately with a very, very good professional player, and sight-reading always forms the warm-up of our bi-monthly lessons. Steven Girko insists that we always "start in the upper left hand corner and end in the bottom right hand corner at the same time." (his words) Steve always manages to pull challenging, unknown duets from his library for these reading sessions, and I honestly find myself looking forward to them. I've learned, however, NEVER to stop. Just "stay up, catch up, and play up!" (again, Steve's words)
After doing a prescribed amount of sight-reading I think you'll quickly be surprised how you begin to recognize scale patterns, intervals, arpeggios, and even ornamentation from the method books, and that you'll be able to reproduce them in context of the music handily and easily.
Keep on reading!
Best wishes,
Lynn McLarty
Horseshoe Bay, TX
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Author: Bruno
Date: 2006-07-31 00:29
A great trick to help learn sight reading is to forge on regardless of whether or not you miss or missplay notes. Get the metronome going at a do-able rate and let the wrong notes fall all over the floor. Just keep the meter and "press on regardless".
b/
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Author: allencole
Date: 2006-07-31 16:52
I strongly agree. The essence of sightreading is COUNTING. Most players have difficulty because they are too paranoid about pitches. Just keep it moving and trust yourself to hit the pitches. If it goes too rough, just slow it down the next time and build your speed up try by try.
If you're in the right place in the song, you're gonna have an easier time with the pitches than you will if you let the fear of mistakes intimidate you.
Allen Cole
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Author: KristinVanHorn
Date: 2006-07-31 18:07
allencole wrote:
> I strongly agree. The essence of sightreading is COUNTING. Most
> players have difficulty because they are too paranoid about
> pitches. Just keep it moving and trust yourself to hit the
> pitches. If it goes too rough, just slow it down the next time
> and build your speed up try by try.
>
> If you're in the right place in the song, you're gonna have an
> easier time with the pitches than you will if you let the fear
> of mistakes intimidate you.
>
it's hard not to start over from the beginning but if you say it helps i'll try it. thanks for all the help so far.
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Author: hans
Date: 2006-07-31 18:31
And read ahead of where are playing as much as you can.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2006-07-31 18:53
hans wrote:
> And read ahead of where are playing as much as you can.
Exactly...
and as I tell my students every day (or is it every hour?) when counting rests, DON"T STARE AT THE RESTS, but rather, look ahead to see what is coming.
So simple to do, yet so many students fail to do it...GBK
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Author: diz
Date: 2006-07-31 22:19
Sightreading's an interesting thing. And, in my general observation you a) either are brilliant at memory work or b) brilliant at sightreading. Obviously people fall neatly into both categories.
My clarinet teacher used to spend at least one quarter of each lesson playing duets with me and often music from the opera she was currently playing in the pit for the Australian Opera (as it was known in the dark ages). I enjoyed it very much and it pushed me to sightread regularly with her.
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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