Author: KevinB
Date: 2009-10-27 23:40
Hi folks, new guy here.
I've recently taken up the oboe (2 months recently!) and am enjoying the experience a lot.
One thing that's holding me back is my underdeveloped ability to read music rapidly and accurately. If I stand an look at a piece, I can certainly decypher it, i.e identify the note, rhythm, dynamics etc., but I'm finding it very hard to do that any faster than, say, a note a second. This is obviously having quite an effect on making me falter even more than I am already with learning the mechanics of the instrument though I'm finding that less of a challenge than I was expecting; playing from memory rather than manuscript is a lot easier.
One particularly annoying problem is that sometimes as I'm playing I come to a note, know absolutely that I know the note but the brain just kind of stalls in what I'm guessing is a pattern recognition failure, and then it's too late and I have to stop, manually decypher the note from basics (FACE etc), rewind and try again. Pretty annoying.
So, my question to you good people is, what resources can you recommend to me to help me improve my music reading skills? I know that ultimately it's practice, practice, practice, but undirected practice is a pretty pointless and depressing thing, often self-defeating.
Cheers
Kevin.
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