Sight reading music
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MaryAnn
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I saw this only once, so I'll repeat it:
When you are practicing sight reading, turn on the metronome and don't lose where you are, even if all you do is play the first note in each measure. When you are sight reading in a group, what they care about is whether you stay with them, not whether you miss a note or two. Always know where you are! When I've run into lousy sight readers, it's because they get stuck trying to get the notes right and then they lose the group.
Getting the notes right is important too, but not as important as staying with the group. For getting the notes and rhythm right, others have talked about how to do that: pattern recognition, both rhythmically and aurally, and practice, practice, practice. It can take two or three years of steady work to get to be an excellent sight reader. Don't give up when you haven't got it in two weeks.
MA
When you are practicing sight reading, turn on the metronome and don't lose where you are, even if all you do is play the first note in each measure. When you are sight reading in a group, what they care about is whether you stay with them, not whether you miss a note or two. Always know where you are! When I've run into lousy sight readers, it's because they get stuck trying to get the notes right and then they lose the group.
Getting the notes right is important too, but not as important as staying with the group. For getting the notes and rhythm right, others have talked about how to do that: pattern recognition, both rhythmically and aurally, and practice, practice, practice. It can take two or three years of steady work to get to be an excellent sight reader. Don't give up when you haven't got it in two weeks.
MA
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How to practice sightreading...
Master rhythm. Learn the fine art of subdivision. Know the difference between dotted eighth notes followed by sixteenths and the triplet figure quarter note and eighth note (though they sound pretty much the same when you swing them). Always use a metronome.
Borrow music from the library with songs you know and play them (you will have to learn how to read treble clef for this one). Always use a metronome. Never stop to figure something out. Keep on playing with the metronome.
Get some orchestral tuba parts and play along with recordings of the works.
I have more but those will do for now.
Borrow music from the library with songs you know and play them (you will have to learn how to read treble clef for this one). Always use a metronome. Never stop to figure something out. Keep on playing with the metronome.
Get some orchestral tuba parts and play along with recordings of the works.
I have more but those will do for now.
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