shawna asked:


how do you improve your sight-reading?

and do you know where i can get sheet music for free? and just print it out??

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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.
My timing is not my worry here im pretty confident i have that part down, Am i limiting myself by basically just memorizing the piece?

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Katya asked:


What would be the best way to self-teach how to sight-read and be able to sing pitch to sheet music?

I’ve been doing choir for a couple of years now and I’m missing out on the opportunity to be promoted to a higher level because I’m unable to sight-read and sing pitch from sheet music. I really want to move up, and everyone else in the class has taken singing lessons and things as children or when they were younger so we don’t cover much in class of that. (Weird to me I think, since we don’t learn that in class but are expected to learn! D: I’m willing to work for it though)

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Lamar S asked:


How long did it take for you to sight read fluently? i’ve been playing piano for a year and for some reason i never learned how to sight read..my teacher is lousy, i was never taught like a beginner he instantly skipped me to intermediate level when i started..its hard for me to play sheet music because i always have to take time to figure out what the note is

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eboyinc asked:

Sight reading ~ Sound Sample (excerpt) of Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26. The player is a student violinist who pulled the sheet music for the Bruch for the first time tonight. The violin is a really beautiful old American violin.

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