Lypur asked:

In this lesson I explain how to sight read sheet music. What things you should be looking for and how to practise your sight reading skill. Sight reading sheet music can be tough to start out but stick to it and you’ll sight read like a pro after some practise. Check out my website and Join the music community! Visit www.howtoplaypiano.ca Thanks for watching! Hope this helps!

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XmyXdropXdeadXromanceX asked:


We had to pick our courses for next year and I put AP Music Theory as one of my classes. I love music and have been playing for 8 years (guitar, voice and piano) I am able to read notes perfectly and can sight read about any song you give me. However, I have not previously taken a Music Theory class. How difficult do you think this would be for me? Please give any advice that you found helpful

Thank you in advance for all of your input.

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poojalooba_cow asked:


I’m attending the “Fifth Annual Snow College/Juilliard Jazz Workshop” on July 6-11. Juilliard jazz faculty like Carl Allen and Ben Wolfe come down to Snow College for a week and teach kids about jazz and it’s awesome. Part of the process is splitting off into combos to practice and play songs with during the week, and to put you in combos you go through a “soft audition” at the beginning of the workshop where you play some jazz stuff like scales and basic twelve-bar stuff and based on your skill, you’re placed in a combo with players of your skill. The official guidelines say:

More advanced players should be prepared to play:
-A 12 bar blues in B flat, C minor, F and E flat (various tempos, melody and solo). This should be a jazz standard (i.e. Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, etc.)
-Major and minor scales
-Up tempo standard (of their choice)
-Sight reading

I play piano, and I’ve got all of those twelve-bar blues forms down and all the scales and I’m a decent sight reader. The only problem is, I’m having a really hard time finding two songs to play (a “twelve-bar jazz standard” and an “up tempo standard”). I’ve looked at stuff like Boogie a la King by Nat King Cole and 18th Street Stomp by Fats Waller and other stuff but I can’t find sheet music anywhere, and with only a month I’d rather not sit down and transcribe these songs by ear (I could do it if I absolutely had to, though). I also have a book of “Jump Swing” songs but they’re kind of lame and watered-down with lame piano-bass lines or weird boogie riffs that don’t fit the bill, but I could maybe also turn to one of those in a pinch. I’ve also got a fake book full of jazz standards that I could turn to if I had to.

I’m asking if anybody has any suggestions on good solo-piano jazz pieces that fit the requirements (twelve-bar standard, up-tempo standard), sound good and are fun to play and relatively easy without sounding lame (difficulty is not an issue normally, but I only have a month). Can anyone help me out here?

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pianoplayerforlife asked:


I have been playing the piano for about five years. The problem I have is sight reading. My piano teacher said my skill is way higher than my sight reading. It is not that I can’t play the piano. I have played the real version of Alla Turca by Mozart. I love playing the piano! I just feel that I am not going to get anywhere in music if I do not improve this one issue. If you have any suggestions please answer. I desperately want to be a better pianist.

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Jeremy S asked:


I don’t know if I’m ready…or even good enough. But college is coming soon. I’m huge into music. I’ve been playing guitar for close to three years now, mostly electric. I can hold my own with most musicians out here and have played with rock bands, to jazz groups.

I’m mainly self taught on guitar. I’ve learned a lot by ear.

I’m currently working on theory and during my last semester of high school, I’m taking more theory lessons and some more guitar instruction. My sight reading isn’t very good still…

But mainly, I’m afraid my style and what I play isn’t going to be what the college wants. I want so badly to get in and study my instrument…or at least study music theory and composition…I just don’t think I’m at the right level.

Am I getting there? Or is this too lofty a goal for someone with as poor credentials as I?

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