Ofcourse, the original poster never mentioned (I dont think) what type of music he / she was trying to read.
Music in one part is obviously going to be alot easier to read than open or even full score!
TB
Sight reading...
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- KVRAF
- 2830 posts since 2 Mar, 2003 from The only civilized county in Texas
Hm. I would have said "look for the shape of the melody". For instance if it looks like an upward run with a little jump down halfway, then you need only the first note, and you can play, or maybe make up, the rest.tee boy wrote:Ok, here's something that helped me alot. Rather than trying to see the notes, look for the intervals instead.
And you're absolutely right that with diatonic music that's rather easy to do.
Victor.
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- KVRAF
- 2830 posts since 2 Mar, 2003 from The only civilized county in Texas
There are these stories.....tee boy wrote:Sight reading of fullscore is impossible (for the normal person atleast, if not everyone).
Saint Saens playing a piano reduction of a Wagner score, on sight.....
Me, the best I've ever done was accompanying a chorus from a 6-part vocal score. But I haven't done taht in a while and I doubt I could do it now.
The real trick is to get to Carnegie Hall.
Victor.
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- KVRAF
- 2356 posts since 30 Sep, 2003 from Sunny Staffordshire
Yeah, good point.VicDiesel wrote:Hm. I would have said "look for the shape of the melody". For instance if it looks like an upward run with a little jump down halfway, then you need only the first note, and you can play, or maybe make up, the rest.tee boy wrote:Ok, here's something that helped me alot. Rather than trying to see the notes, look for the intervals instead.
And you're absolutely right that with diatonic music that's rather easy to do.
Victor.
I guess it depends what you're reading! Melodies can be viewed as contours as you say, and that can be of massive help.
My point being though, dont go from note to note thinking of the letter name. Think of the notes more in relation to one another.
TB
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- KVRAF
- 2356 posts since 30 Sep, 2003 from Sunny Staffordshire
VicDiesel wrote:There are these stories.....tee boy wrote:Sight reading of fullscore is impossible (for the normal person atleast, if not everyone).
Saint Saens playing a piano reduction of a Wagner score, on sight.....
Me, the best I've ever done was accompanying a chorus from a 6-part vocal score. But I haven't done taht in a while and I doubt I could do it now.
The real trick is to get to Carnegie Hall.
Victor.
Yeah, the uber talented can do amazing things. Liszt ALLEGEDLY played the Grieg Concerto on sight, or so I believe. And he was known to be sight read Bach very well.
Then again, you get some top performers who cant sight read for shite.
TB