Chise asked:


I play Alto Sax and have been practicing scales like crazy. I can’t figure out what are good excersises for sight reading. Getting into that school is all I think about.I also have trouble with rythms when theres faster music. A Metronome can help but I dont know.

So recommend anything that can help me get better please.

And if you or someone you know attends/attened Interlochen please tell me what I need to focus on.

Arigatou!

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GYoung asked:


I started playing around 6 months ago becasue i was bored and have a piano that i never gave thought to playing. I learned simple songs first but then moved to stuff like Maple Leaf Rag, Fur Elise, Alla Turca etc. The way i learn however is by reading each cleff separtley, playing it tell i have the notes/chords memorized and then put them together and work out the rhythm with a metronome without further assitance from the sheet music (unless i cant figure it out then ill look at it again). I am getting better at sight reading and am starting to interpret quicker but should i be going into more depth on each piece and studying it more. I also don’t practice scales or theory much, i just practice playing the 5 pieces i know and improvise sometimes but my improvs are’nt very good. When i find a piece say like Alla Turca that has you playing up and down the scale at a certain part in the piece, i figure out what key it’s in and then learn the proper fingering for that scale.

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