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Author: Luke
Date: 2004-03-31 04:48
i am studying clarinet student, in highschool sophomore.
well, please anybody know how to improve sightreading skill?
is there any special way to improve it?
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Author: Mazz
Date: 2004-03-31 12:40
best way to improve is to practice, Ive personally found no shortcuts, Ive found its all to do with how well u know ur instrument
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Author: Mazz
Date: 2004-03-31 15:50
ok appologies apparently there is another way to improve your sight reading!!! Put a newspaper or magazine on your music stand and run your scales as you read an article. You will not believe how difficult it is to do both. What you are actually doing is using both sides of your brain at the same time. When you switch to just reading a piece of music, it seems much easier.
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Author: Luke
Date: 2004-03-31 20:03
Mazz, thanks a lot for the newspaper methods...
that sounds like fun... i will try that for sure.
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Author: Kiwi
Date: 2004-03-31 20:38
sight reading is an interesting thing to do..first of all start off by practicing really simple tunes that you have no seen before.. i also played the clarinet and in highschool when we would have a sight reading test come up i would by a clarinet book of music that i had enever seen before where it starts off easy...i would start with simple tunes and then work my way up from there..also when doing a more challenging piece when sight reading take it one part at a time..practice maybe 5 measures and repeat those measure again until you get it. then go on and learn some more..then put the group of measures you just learned all together..just remeber theres no rush..its better to be able to play a more simpler sight reading example perfectly than play a more challenging piece and not getting it at all....good luck..
~~KIWI~
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Author: Dee
Date: 2004-03-31 21:58
Make sure you are proficient at your scales and arpeggios (both inverted and non-inverted). You shouldn't have to think about them at all. Remember that most music is built around scale runs and arpeggios. Second make sure you are solid with the rhythmical notations so you don't have to think about those either. Then finally simply do lots and lots of sight reading starting slowly with simple pieces and move on to harder ones.
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Author: Hannah
Date: 2004-04-05 20:54
find the hardest section of the piece, and figure out how fast you can play it, so you don't start off too fast. if you miss notes the first time you play the piece (B flat instead of B natural, etc) mark the notes (in pencil!!) so you remember the next time. tap your foot or use a metronome.
well you might do all of that already, but a little reminder can't hurt if you do.
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Author: Jess Cusumano
Date: 2004-04-06 08:41
Personally i hated sight reading when i played piano because of the 2 line music now it's do much easier on my sax cuz it is. Practise what ur bad at personaly i can read note like a genious but read rhythms ha ha ha that i still havnt perfected like u im doing music at highschool and loveing it. Also analysing peices u have never heard before helps i dont now why but it does. la la la havefun and remember an idiot is a person who does the same thing over and over and expects different results. Thats my wisdon 4 2day hav agood one.
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