Author: Grendel McGrenadill
Date: 2023-11-11 12:07
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It sounds, then, as though you might want to start by working toward more fluency with scales and triads, especially in the more commonly encountered keys. Playing and thinking through the various keys should be as easy as reciting the alphabet.
Quite obviously so. Thank you.
So far I played the scales ( focussing on major but also melodic minor and pentatonics ) mostly by ear. Abstracting it from the intervals I hear. Of course while doing this I do not really anchor the note names / positions on stave into my brain.
Should I maybe practise the scales while looking at a stave with the note names added?
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set a metronome to a relaxed tempo (perhaps 60), and then say the note names and push down the fingerings directly on the downbeats.
That sounds interesting. Thank you. I guess you mean that in context of looking at a score?
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And here, for simply churning out pitches to look at, I can see those random music generators being pretty useful. I tried an app called "Read Music - Faster" which basically shows you random notes and the detects what you play. A sort of quiz game. I got a bit bored by the missing musical context though.
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But to become a fluent sightreader, you have to recognize very quickly larger structures, such as scales, triads, dimiunitions, voice-leading patterns, and so on. It seems to me that randomization would keep you locked into reading music at the individual pitch and rhythm level and therefore arrest your development as a sightreader. But I suppose your mileage may vary.
That concept is nicely explained in the video that lydian posted above. Thanks for that as well. Very educative.
Again: Thanks to all for giving me hints and suggestions.
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