Pojo asked:


Today I visited the music store cause my brother needed to buy a metronome…and I started to read a guitar chord book. Then I looked at their selection of guitars, which were at a pretty fair price..so now I’m interested in playing the guitar.

My Musical Background:
1. Been playing the piano for 7+ years (I’m going to turn 14 in a month)
2. I’m really good at sight reading
3. Never had any other instrument experience besides piano + a bit of percussion

I’m too lazy to take private/group lessons, so is it possible to teach myself how to strum the guitar correctly using the Internet (YouTube!) and a beginning guitar book? Because I don’t want to continue down the wrong path…

Sight Reading Secrets Revealed

Gary asked:


I desperately want to play in my College’s concert band. They require you to audition and such, I -think- I could do all they require but I’m not totally sure. To exacerbate the situation my clarinet is broken and needs repairing, meaning I haven’t practiced for a while (about a week or so) and auditioning takes place next week.
I would have my clarinet fixed but that’d cost at the least, 200 bucks. Now its not 100% sure I’d get in so I’m somewhat hesitant on spending 200$ on my clarinet(which I got for 300$ on ebay, it’s a yamaha ycl-34).

I can play level 4 songs (medium-medium advanced{with a bit practice}). I could play all my scales… the ones they require (up to 3 scaled flats and sharps) I could do 16th notes @ 80 bpm.
My sight reading is ok I think. Usually takes me less than 20 minutes to play high school concert music without any noticeable mistakes. The piece I want to play is the first portion of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto.

http://music.ucdavis.edu/concertband/Auditions

So my question is, should I audition or not?

Sight Reading Secrets Revealed

hello asked:


I can understand notes on the music scale, and how to read them, but i have a test tomorrow over sight reading in choir and i need to be able to simply look at a note and know what it is. Is there any way I can practice this? I need a lot of help.
(do re me fa so la ti do)

How to Sight Read Music