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> When It Comes To Sightreading, You know you love it really
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post Sep 21 2006, 07:53 PM
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Are you the kind who'll sightread just about anything regardless to difficulty, or are you one that will scream and run away leaving a chair spinning?

As for me, I'll sightread anything except for that crazy avant garde stuff, can't comprehende it! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)
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post Sep 21 2006, 08:00 PM
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I really enjoy sightreading and sightsinging. I love getting new music!
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post Sep 21 2006, 08:01 PM
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I'll sight read anything, and sight transpose it if I have to (albeit it increasing in badness the higher the notes are, and forget accidentals!)
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post Sep 21 2006, 09:37 PM
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I'm the sort that sight reads it slowly on piano, all the while keeping up a constant barrage of swearing (not recommended in exams) and having my face an inch from the page. This doesn't work with oboe, but I'm better at it. Apart from the crazy avant-garde stuff.
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post Sep 21 2006, 09:40 PM
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I love doodling through previously unseen music...but preferably on my own. If I've got to count it all perfectly because there's another musician involved, I get self-conscious and fall to bits, musically speaking.
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post Sep 22 2006, 08:01 AM
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Poking through new music is one of my favourite time-wasters (bad choice of word) when I ought to practising for something specific! Yes, I love it!
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post Sep 22 2006, 08:39 AM
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QUOTE(anacrusis @ Sep 21 2006, 10:28 PM) *

I love doodling through previously unseen music...but preferably on my own. If I've got to count it all perfectly because there's another musician involved, I get self-conscious and fall to bits, musically speaking.



QUOTE(Patricia @ Sep 22 2006, 08:49 AM) *

Poking through new music is one of my favourite time-wasters (bad choice of word) when I ought to practising for something specific! Yes, I love it!


Me too!! Hence my current ebay addiction.

What I find more frustrating is that, then when I've practiced the piece many times, it still sounds no better than my first attempt (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

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post Sep 22 2006, 08:49 AM
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How's my sight reading? Well, unless it's grades 1-3, then it's completely , well, what rhymes with trap, but there is a c in there (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)
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post Sep 22 2006, 09:28 AM
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I really enjoy sightreading, unless the composer has randomly selected a keysignature with more than 5 sharps or flats. Then I generally tend to swear profusely at the music, or transpose it down or up a semitone to make it more manageable.

When I was at school, I used to transpose music up or down by sight when I was accompanying singers (cos I was mean) and watch them struggle when they got to the (much higher) high notes! Perils of not having perfect pitch!
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post Sep 22 2006, 09:31 AM
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I LOVE sightreading - which is lucky 'cos it's pretty much what I do for my living most of the time! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Sep 22 2006, 09:42 AM
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Me too, I must have loads of music I have never played, and keep digging into it.
I alwayslike to be trying something new, whether its (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) or (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
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post Sep 22 2006, 09:42 AM
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QUOTE(Bing @ Sep 22 2006, 10:16 AM) *

I really enjoy sightreading, unless the composer has randomly selected a keysignature with more than 5 sharps or flats. Then I generally tend to swear profusely at the music, or transpose it down or up a semitone to make it more manageable.

When I was at school, I used to transpose music up or down by sight when I was accompanying singers (cos I was mean) and watch them struggle when they got to the (much higher) high notes! Perils of not having perfect pitch!

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Did the teacher never catch you on?
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post Sep 22 2006, 10:05 AM
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QUOTE(carol*piano @ Sep 22 2006, 10:19 AM) *

I LOVE sightreading - which is lucky 'cos it's pretty much what I do for my living most of the time! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

What do you do Carol? I absolutely love sight reading too. If I could make a living from it, I think I'd jump at it.
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post Sep 22 2006, 10:09 AM
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QUOTE(Patricia @ Sep 22 2006, 10:30 AM) *

QUOTE(Bing @ Sep 22 2006, 10:16 AM) *

I really enjoy sightreading, unless the composer has randomly selected a keysignature with more than 5 sharps or flats. Then I generally tend to swear profusely at the music, or transpose it down or up a semitone to make it more manageable.

When I was at school, I used to transpose music up or down by sight when I was accompanying singers (cos I was mean) and watch them struggle when they got to the (much higher) high notes! Perils of not having perfect pitch!

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Did the teacher never catch you on?

No! I generally used to move up by a semitone or so whenever there was a bar where the singer had a rest. No-one except me had perfect pitch, and it would take quite a severe transpostion before anyone used to catch on!
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post Sep 22 2006, 10:24 AM
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QUOTE(Bing @ Sep 22 2006, 10:16 AM) *

I really enjoy sightreading, unless the composer has randomly selected a keysignature with more than 5 sharps or flats. Then I generally tend to swear profusely at the music, or transpose it down or up a semitone to make it more manageable.

When I was at school, I used to transpose music up or down by sight when I was accompanying singers (cos I was mean) and watch them struggle when they got to the (much higher) high notes! Perils of not having perfect pitch!


(IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) If you'd done that for me we'd have had WORDS. And you wouldn't have had a chance to have many of them........

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