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Strategies for Sight Reading: Part I
The only way to get better at sight reading is sight reading.
0:00 - Introduction
0:38 - Why You Should Work on Sight Reading
1:49 - Reading Music Is Like Reading Language
2:50 - Challenges, Exceptions, and Special Cases
5:52 - The Only Way to Get Better at Sight Reading
6:20 - Finding Appropriate Material
7:31 - The Sight Reading Factory
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Iām a piano/organ player that has played by ear for about 20 years. I absolutely regret not taking more time learning how to read music when I first started playing. I have had to learn more about reading music since the church I play at sings a hymn every Sunday. I know some of the fundamentals, but Iām working towards being more competent.
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I always loved sight reading because I would get bored playing the same music over and over again. Now, I can read almost anything you put in front of me and it has greatly helped with my flexibility as a performer. If my church wants to try a new song, all I need is the music or even just a lead sheet and I can go from having never heard the music before to playing it for the service the day I received the music.
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Also, scales people!!! A tip I got from my director was to practice scales by playing them in different rhythms and/or with accent marks. It also helps you be more confident playing in different keys šŖ
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I purchased a year's subscription of the Sight Reading Factory. The price was very reasonable and I think that the Sight Reading Factory is an outstanding program for choral singers. I like the fact that it gives you the option to ear train using one part or multiple parts (SATB). Sight singing is challenging but very rewarding.
I am very satisfied with the product and highly recommend it for choral singers.
Thank you Brad Harrison š¤
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For winds (especially woodwinds), know your scales like the back of your hand. Once youāve got the scales down, do key studies! Thirds, technical studies, and broken chords are just some of the really great exercises that will help you get better at sight reading because realistically things like runs are just parts of scales
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1 thing has massively helped my piano sight reading: developing my feel for the keyboard without looking down. Now I teach my students this and it REALLY helps. But yes -- they need to actually practice it, haha! Great video, thanks so much.
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I have the opposite problem, Iām a visual learner and find sight reading very easy, but I believe this has created another problem for me, because the route between music notes and my finger has become some sort of a reflex, my brain doesnāt work āhardā enough in this process, which makes memorizing music almost impossible for me. I can not play without the music scoreš
. It feels like it has bypassed some part of my brainā¦
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The most important thing about sight reading (as a pianist) is to not look at your hands. It takes discipline, but you can figure out intervals by feeling the black keys, since theyāre asymmetric. With time, you can very quickly get to where you need by feel, without taking your eyes off the page.
Also crucially important, also arguably the most important thing, is to look ahead. The same thing is true if you want to be good at reading a book audibly. You look ahead to give you brain time to decipher unexpected or difficult words and to think about expression.
The same thing is true in music.
If you can develop these two skills, with practice, you can learn to sight read very well.
Finally, not as crucial, but a nice to have, is you peripheral vision can see where your hands are. This is more of an advanced skill, and not as important as the other two, but itās a cool skill to have, and not so difficult, the most difficult part being to develop the discipline to not look at your hands.
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The best supportive, revealing, and helpful, video on sight reading I've ever come across.
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Amazing video, was looking for a video like this everywhere, thanks !!!
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This is why we have sight singing classes lol. I'm awful at sight reading piano but I'm pretty good at sight singing lol
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Great timing, I just started sight reading 2 days ago.
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The Sight Reading Factory is useful. Besides sight reading I also used for fretless guitar intonation. Thank you for the share.
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amazing resource, thank you!
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I paused the video along the way and read through all the examples on electric guitar, first treble staff at written pitch, then bass as written, then treble as guitar clef (played an octave below written), then both clefs in harmony. Intriguing, challenging. About to investigate further. I read well enough to teach the classes I'm assigned in spite of having inadequate training, but learning parts in preparation for teaching does take much longer than I'd like. Thank you for this video!
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I use SRF, worth every cent. This video is also extremely helpful.
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I love the timing of this series as I just signed up this year to sight reading factory and wanted to learn sight reading
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I personally just set out to learn the pieces of music that mean the most to me. I find that really helps in my piano progress. If you're not motivated by the songs you're learning then I believe you'll end up quitting without intending to quit.
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I just finished the Hal Leonard sight reading for bass guitar book and was looking for the something to consolidate what I'd learnt. This is exactly what I wanted so I've signed up, thanks for the link and the discount. I just do half an hour or so every morning. For any bass players I really recommend learning to sight read, I've come at it later in life and wish I learnt earlier.
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