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> When It Comes To Sightreading, You know you love it really
Bing
post Sep 22 2006, 10:27 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!


(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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I would have enjoyed the challenging banter! There wasn't much of it around during O/A Levels. Being forced to spend my lunch break/PS periods accompanying school singers was not much fun. Would have probably been a lot better had you been there!
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post Sep 22 2006, 10:51 AM
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QUOTE(Bing @ Sep 22 2006, 11:15 AM) *

QUOTE(katyjay @ Sep 22 2006, 11:12 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/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........

Katyjay
(singer WITH perfect pitch, and no time for silly######s accompanists)

I would have enjoyed the challenging banter! There wasn't much of it around during O/A Levels. Being forced to spend my lunch break/PS periods accompanying school singers was not much fun. Would have probably been a lot better had you been there!


So it's alright to muck up someone else's study of their instrument if it's only voice, is it?
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post Sep 22 2006, 11:00 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)

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.

I just play for local ballet classes, ballet exams, local shows, concerts, recitals, accompany AB exams etc. A lot of it turns out to be sightreading due to me only getting the music on the day - or if I do get it earlier, I don't often look at it anyway 'cos I'm too lazy! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Sep 22 2006, 11:14 AM
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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)


I sight read very well (IMO) and don't usually make many mistakes. I sight read anything and everything that's put in front of me, even very difficult scores with seven sharps or flats and myriads of accidentals. I do sometimes have problems with getting the timing or pulse correct but not often.

When I was studying music, piano and keyboard in particular, at LA Uni. great emphasis and importance was put on being able to sight read a piece quickly and accurately. We were not allowed to listen to the piece of music first, if it was relatively unknown, we had to sight read it (by definition) once only. After that playing the piece through again constituted "learning" the piece.
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post Sep 22 2006, 11:18 AM
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love it but for me it constitutes doodling around with new bits of music. I can usually get the notes first time just by sight but my timing and rhythm then needs more work
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post Sep 22 2006, 02:19 PM
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QUOTE(carol*piano @ Sep 22 2006, 11:48 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)

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.

I just play for local ballet classes, ballet exams, local shows, concerts, recitals, accompany AB exams etc. A lot of it turns out to be sightreading due to me only getting the music on the day - or if I do get it earlier, I don't often look at it anyway 'cos I'm too lazy! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)


I used to play for dancing schools and exams as well, when I was about 15/16. I used to get good pocket money for it too, and I got to see all the girls in their leotards etc!
I got into this because one of my best mates elder sister ran dancing classes at two locations.
I certainly enjoy accompanying my daughter whether she is playing violin or singing.
I know you have to look at the music, but do watch or grab a glance at your partner as often as you can, and yes a bit of body movement helps too !
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post Sep 22 2006, 04:34 PM
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The fourth sharp is the killer when you're sightreading for clarinet.
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post Sep 22 2006, 08:12 PM
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Have a go at most things happily. I can identify with 'one inch from the page'!! How it helps, I've not discovered as yet (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Things always sound better first time compared with the next few...maybe because my expectations are to be awful, then improve, but actually, I'm ok then don't improve much...!
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post Sep 22 2006, 09:22 PM
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I can sight READ just about anything but cannot always wrap my fingers around things when I play at sight. I love new parcels of music dropping through the letterbox and cannot wait to look over them. I would as soon read a score as a book at times.
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post Sep 22 2006, 10:51 PM
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Does anyone find 4 sharps/flats more difficult than 5 and also 6 sharps/flats more difficult than 7? I think it's because you can't just raise/lower all black notes and all notes repectively when you have 4 or 6. Maybe it's just me. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)
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post Sep 23 2006, 08:07 AM
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Anything with D# is difficult for me. For some reason I find flats a lot easier, includng E flat.
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post Sep 23 2006, 08:36 AM
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QUOTE(Boo Radley @ Sep 22 2006, 11:39 PM) *

Does anyone find 4 sharps/flats more difficult than 5 and also 6 sharps/flats more difficult than 7? I think it's because you can't just raise/lower all black notes and all notes repectively when you have 4 or 6. Maybe it's just me. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

Totally. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) It takes more concentration to remember the single note that isn't changed (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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post Sep 23 2006, 05:49 PM
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Does anyone find 4 sharps/flats more difficult than 5 and also 6 sharps/flats more difficult than 7? I think it's because you can't just raise/lower all black notes and all notes repectively when you have 4 or 6. Maybe it's just me. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

Totally. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) It takes more concentration to remember the single note that isn't changed (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Me too!
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Anything with D# is difficult for me. For some reason I find flats a lot easier, includng E flat.


Same here! I think it's all to do with the right left right thing!
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post Sep 24 2006, 07:26 PM
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Yeah- you're playing along happily, going left right left right, then theres a D# all of the sudden, and a huge bump. If its an E flat, you don't tend to get things like B or D flat going with it to cause that.
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