What are the most effective techniques for learning how to sight read?
throwingbacktheapple asked:
I’m am relatively good at playing bass, but I don’t know how to sight read.What would be the best way to improve my reading skills? I’m talking contemporary music, nothing too serious like jazz or classical contra-bass.
Learn How to Sight Read Music
I’m am relatively good at playing bass, but I don’t know how to sight read.What would be the best way to improve my reading skills? I’m talking contemporary music, nothing too serious like jazz or classical contra-bass.
Learn How to Sight Read Music
How to Sight Read Music Hub
Just gotta practice. It will come to you
how to sight read music
Etudes, exercises, and stuff like that. Buy an instructional book on playing bass and go to town on it. The only really sure fire way to get good at sight reading is by sight reading and just playing MANY different pieces of music.
Sight Reading Secrets Revealed
I’ve struggled with this myself, and asked many others. The advice I’ve been given is to just keep doing it. The only way to get good at it is to keep practicing sight reading.
If you can find a studio musician – work with him on it. They’re good! They’ve GOT to be good.
About the only thing I can add to that advice is to learn to recognize phrases. Phrases often repeat, not only in a piece of music, but from one piece to another.
Good luck!
How to Sight Read Music
The best method to sight read is the same basics as reading a book. You have to get used to reading a few words ahead so you can read faster and not, word by word.
When reading music, you need to have the ability to look at one Bar memorize and when you start playing it, you are already on the 2nd bar, memorizing it, and so on. you need to read one bar ahead and even, up to 4 bars. That is the secret to good , fast sight-reading.
Here’s how to go about improving your reading skills:
Memorise a lot of tunes, phrases, licks, vamps, etc. Ninety-nice percent of music comprises bits and pieces of stuff you probably already know. Once your fingers have learned a mass of material, they’ll immediately ‘kick in’ when your eye spots a particular phrase, riff or chord shape.