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Author: Clair
Date: 2002-11-27 15:40
Does anyone know where I can quickly get some good music to practice my sight reading with? District auditions are coming up. I'm a freshman in high school but quite advanced, and nothing I have at home seems quite challenging enough (or I've already played it a thousand times), although I'm really not sure what sort of music I'll be faced with in the audition room. What do you recommend? Any help would be appreciated--thanks!
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Author: Katfish
Date: 2002-11-27 16:49
60 Rambles for Clarinet by Leon Lester. These are easy. Pasquale Bona-Rhythm Articulations. Good for sight reading rhythms and subdivions of the beat. These are medium. For difficult etudes try Baermann Book 4.
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-11-27 18:45
Clair -
Go into the band music library. If your band has been around for awhile, there will be a bunch of orchestral music transcriptions -- Oberon Overture, Eureanthe Overture, Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna, etc. There's nothing better than these to just play through without stopping, and preferably with someone who plays better than you do
Many years ago, these were all collected in a 5-volume set called the Bandsman's Folios, which I played through with my teacher. They're long out of print, but your teacher may have them.
Good sight readers recognize "chunks" of scales and chords, which they've worked into their fingers by studying Part III of the Baermann Method. That is, you recognize not notes but groups of notes and let your fingers play them while your eyes look ahead. I described the methodology at great length at http://www.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=24907&t=24731, which I just recommended to Aussie Nick a couple of messages down.
It's not easy, but it is possible, particularly for someone who, like you, obviously has talent. Being a confident sight reader is one of the great happy-making experiences.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: ron b
Date: 2002-11-27 19:30
If you're looking for challenge and haven't the time or resources to find something 'new'(to you), try reading the sheet music you have upside down.
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Author: Morrigan
Date: 2002-11-28 00:02
More on what ron b said -
I often read my music not only upside down, but backwards, or transposed into the first key that comes to mind, or made in minor or a mode. Then, combine any number of these for a real challenge!!!
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