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 Re: Sight reading timing - hints on how to do it
Author: seabreeze 
Date:   2022-01-20 00:18

Remaining in a comfort zone of familiar musical patterns and styles is one reason many players have trouble with sight reading. Playing Klose, Rose. Lazarus, Langenus, Cavalini, (and yes, even my favorite Baermann, etc) over and over rehashes a very limited exposure to the meters, rhythms, and even the scales and harmonies represented in the larger world of music. What's missing? Latin American rhythms and especially Latin American syncopation, for one. For a nice dose of that try Paco D'Rivera's little book, "8 Exercises for Latin Jazz." For some tricky pieces in 5/8 and samples of cakewalk, ragtime and other North American music see Mark Cropton's "Sight Reading and Transposition Tests for Clarinet, Grades 6-8" and Steven Blutman and Michael Blutman's "Festival Sight Reading" book for clarinet. Steven is a percussionist (and I believe percussionists ought always to be either coauthors or editorial reviewers of clarinet books). Weiner's Music carries the clarinet version. The authors boast that they have included 800 examples for sight reading. There is ample practice not only in playing but in accurately counting rests--also a very important part of sight reading. https://www.allstatesightreading.com has a series of sight reading practice books. And there are the computer generated workouts of the Sight Reading Factory at https://www.sightreadingfactory.com.

Sight reading aids like these are of most value when they draw the clarinetist out of the comfort zone of the same old styles and the same old rhythm patterns and open up the path to a greater range of music. Directly confronting the new material in those diverse musical styles is an even better way--much better, in fact, to improve sight reading.



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