This is exactly my situation! Found your channel today and have been binge watching. Took lessons beginning at age 5 and stopped at around 8th grade because I felt I learned enough to play all the stuff I wanted to play. Now, at age 43, I’m no better than I was when I was a kid because I’ve stayed in the rut of playing the pieces I’m good at. And I’m realizing I never had a grasp on theory at all (hated it as a kid) but your videos explain things so well. The Circle of Fifths video was a real eye opener. I NEVER saw how it worked before. Now I get it! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!
My teacher says look over the piece. What is the time signature? What is the scale it’s written in. Look for bars that are the same. Look for phrases that are the same or an octave higher or lower. Once you have reviewed the piece THEN put your fingers on the keys. Another great video ❤❤❤
You're an excellent teacher! I just signed up for your first sight singing course. I always thought I was an okay reader. Then a choir director handed me Ockeghem's "Missa Cuiusvis Toni"!!! hmmm ... perhaps I'm not the hot-shot I thought I was. I think a systematic study of sight-reading, starting with the basics, is in order.
I have been a member of my school orchestra for the last 5 years. We regularly sight read symphonies and overtures, and since then, my sight reading has progessively improved. In my Grade 7 piano and Grade 6 violin I scored 20/21 in ABRSM. I'm now working towards Grade 8 piano.
From 10 to 13 I learned side flute and solfeggio. My teacher did teach me well sight reading. Allways played with sheet music, but he never gave me any technique, how to memorized. I allway try to remember from begining till end. Now decades latter I completely forgot all the notes and need to start from scratch all music theory. Even I forgot everything, it help me understand very quickly. I self learning piano for 6m. The funny thing is, now I am very good at memorizing pieces. Now when I already learned Bach Prelude CM and Chopin prelude 4 Em and Clair de lune first 2 pages (learned a lot by challenged myself way above my skills). I have list of 12 pieces I want to learn but my memory in maintaining what I allready know has limits. That's motivated me to put my efforts into sight reading. Thank you, I find very good tips on your Chanel 🙌
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I was always told "Well do hands separate first, then put it together." I was doing fairly advanced stuff. I thought my sightreading would just develope over time. Yeah, it didn't. Well I got good at reading hands separate, but trying to sightread hands together I just fell apart. Now I realize it's ok to do hands separte on major pieces you are working out, but you need to pick things to do hands together at first reading regularly also. I wish someone would've told me this long ago. Instead I had my last teacher tell me (had just had her not very long either) "Well maybe you aren't meant to play piano then." So I just quit the lessons and didn't play for several years because I just couldn't do it or get better. Yeah, now I realize she was a...well you know what.
I hear lots of stories like that and no teacher has the right to say these things. Reading hands together is about seeing patterns and reading harmonic intervals/ chords. It can be done but it takes time. Give it a go....
Somebody once told me that you can consider yourself a good music teacher if you manage not to put anyone off! I think your teacher failed on that score.
I'm a beginner and I really didn't realize (even with a teacher) how difficult sight-reading is. It's quite reasonable at the beginning to be able to decipher a piece and then let your memory take over, but nothing is as frustrating as when your are in front of your teacher and you're told to start with the "F-G-A" sequence and you have a terrible time locating it, or when you are actually playing the piece during a lesson and trying to follow the score, but getting lost all the time. This video, simple as it is, clearly lays out the common difficulty of sight-reading and gives some simple, yet valuable tips, especially for us beginners.
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Even though I know and have experience living with the musical matters you speak of in your instructional videos, I really enjoy viewing them anyway... you do them well, and I’m always reminded of what’s important and about prioritization. 👍
I would consider myself an intermediate level player. Probably more on the early-intermediate side. I try to set aside about 15 minutes per day for sight-reading. This has helped tremendously with not only my sight-reading ability, but my reading ability in general. I started with the Piano Adventures sight-reading series, which starts very easy, but progresses over the course of five books, for a total of nearly 500 pages of material. And this, to me, is the key to getting better at sight-reading. Lots and lots of novel, "easy" (whatever that means for each individual) material to read every day. Now, in my search for new sight-reading material (which can be quite challenging to find, actually), I'm buying and quickly working through lots of late-beginner/early-intermediate repertoire books. Not all the pieces are truly sight-readable for me, and those pieces I set aside to learn later, or I just learn them right there on the spot, only slower. Anyway, all this took my reading skill from my worst skill to my best skill, by a considerable margin.
Had classical piano classes for 4 years in my childhood and I've never been able to read notes other than by counting them from G or F. Thanks for this!
I will take your advice and do sight reading every day in the hope I can match your ability to play music thrown at me with just a half hour notice.---- Thank you for the tips
I find it helps if I listen to how it should sound first - and then I have some idea of how it should be. Also, I try to play with both hands (no matter how slowly) every single day, even if it's only for 30 minutes or so.....
I often find myself when I think I am reading I am actually playing by ear. I start out really focused on reading but then I noticed I am not really reading at all I am playing by ear. I will admit I am totally harp crazy that her beautiful voice just put me into another state. I was trying to sight read the last rose of summer. I played it all the way through. People was saying to me afterwards That is so beautiful you play with so much feeling. But I was thinking to myself I did not read that well at all. And that happens to me everytime.
That's quite an accomplishment, playing piano with an orchestra at a performance, literally at the last minute taking over for someone else. Nerves of steel.
That's encouraging, I've been practising reading for about two hours a day for two months and I am very slowly getting better. hopefully in a year I won't be such a bad reader.
Sight reading is a blessing. By the time I do the routine hands separate, hands together, then getting the dynamics, I HATE 🤬 the piece and I never play it again!
Thank you so much for your great insights! I have been practicing regularly simple exercises on the piano, but as a real beginner, they are quite easy to do, so I memorize the notes and play correctly without reading the music sheet... However, I have noticed that whenever I want to play by reading, it takes me a while to work out which note I'm supposed to play. Thank you so much for the advice you have shared, I will be studying scores considering your words.
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I almost had the same situation being thrust into a situation like Graham. But it wasn't for an orchestra, it was for my piano teacher. And it wasn't a 200 page score, it was row row row your boat...with both hands. Since I was born with both ears, I immediately started sweathing...but I plugged away. Did I get every note exactly? Nope. But I carried on. Am I getting better. Slowly. Merci for this video.
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This are ocean of difference. In Indian classical music teacher always says if you make mistake repeat it. But my Western music teacher said keep going don't stop. It was a shock
Very interesting and Wise Words Indeed ! and thanks very much for your thoughts and advice,. As a late, late, now more serious starter, ( I've dabbled for years on and off with this life long obsession / ambition) I think the thing is, we tend to think we're practicing More than we actually Are, so from that point of view, I've now started to log how much practice I'm actually doing, as I think we kid ourselves we're doing more than we are. The question I ask myself everyday is Am I just too old ? ( a relatively young 71 ! ) . As a retired engineer, making and repairing things, just comes naturally to me, I don't give it a second thought... metalwork, woodwork, decorating, tiling plumbing, I just Do It, which is really annoying when it comes to Sight Reading and Playing a Piano. The only slightly encouraging thing is, years ago a guitar teacher told me, if you think you've not learnt very much, look back in 6 months time and ask yourself, what you know and can do now, that you couldn't do before ( more wise words). So, having taught myself to read the "Dots" I'll go do some more practice ! Thanks 👍 ( PS I'm also trying to set myself goals I need to achieve by a given time... that's just as a big challenge! 🙄 )
I actually can do most of the skills that you described in your video. But the skill that I do not have and it frustrates me the most is I cannot locate the keys on the piano strictly without looking at them. Because of this deficiency I cannot keep my eyes on the music and therefore my flow in reading it gets disrupted. Any suggestions?
This is a frequent issue. It’s all about spatial awareness and it’s a cause and effect ie if you keep looking for the keys you (a) never learn spatial awareness and (b) don’t develop the Aural skills that tell you whether or not you’ve located the correct notes. The answer is to make yourself read without looking at the keys. You’ll make lots of mistakes at first but you’ll quickly learn to locate the keys and to listen for what is correct/ incorrect. Hope that’s helpful.
Thank you so much. I began some days ago. It's hard for me to play the Celts major scale using left or right hand at a time. I confuse the 3th finger with the 4th finger . I can't play it with both hands together. Everything goes wrong. I should use the metronomer, but I cannot follow it. I have to be patient with myself. I find very interesting when I noticed some patterns. I try to improvise sometimes. I am little too old to begin, but most things I've learned were difficult in the beginning. So I wonder how it will be in a year, if manage to stay alive and keep on practising a little everyday. I guess I should have started long ago, but things are not easy here. Just like being in the middle of a tornado or worse. It's a war. How do you learn anything during a war? People manage to learn in spite of the war raging everywhere. As long as I am alive, I will keep on trying. Trying to be patient, to grow spiritually, to understand the context although it does not make any sense most of the time. Life only makes sense we are among people. Those waging wars are not people. They kill people and they can also kill the soul. Stay safe.
That is a most moving message. I am so lucky to live where I do. I can’t begin to imagine what it is like to live in the middle of a war. Music is a thing of beauty and if it brings you some peace in the midst of the war we must be grateful for that. I sincerely hope and pray for better times ahead for you.
Great advice and I have been thinking about this for a while. U had the good fortune of learning the piano at an ealy age but was very much driven to pass exams so I did very little of this valuable activity. There doesn't seem to be many sight reading manuscripts around like starting with C major, then C maj with accidentals, then A minor.... and progressing up the level of complexity a bit like we learn to read text. We start reading with big letters and small words which we break down into letter sounds, then put them together to make words. It would seem natural to be able to do this with music as well. Start with simple key signatures and simple rhythms and get increasingly complex as we go.
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Great video once again. Thank you. Now if I understood correctly the structure to practicing site reading is 1) count out rhythm 2) sight notes for pitch (look for patterns) 3) play on instrument the phrasing, articulation, dynamics etc. Did I understand correctly? Thank you
Tell me sir, what do I need to practice on to make my sight reading better? Practice my notes? Practice my rhythms? Practice my articulations? Practice my dynamics? --- Is that the answer? How can sight reading for 5 minutes a day on any page improve my reading skills if I make the same mistakes that can't seem to go away? I know my rhythms, how to count notes, keep tempo, observe dynamic sights and follow articulations in a page ---- We have all gone past that stage --- etc ---- What does that have to do with sight reading? When sight reading a piece but making so many mistakes that nothing is gibberish is played what's the purpose of playing to the end? What does that have to with sight reading?
If you have truly conquered the ingredients but it’s not accurate or fluent the answer is to read easier pieces then to build up your level. Work back to the point at which you can play accurately and fluently and build up from there.
@@MusicMattersGB Sorry sir but you have not still told me the mechanics of sightreading or the very basics one must know in order to some day become a fluent sight reader. Thank you
Break down the task. Clap the rhythms. Read the pitch. Look at patterns in the melody, the rhythm, and the chords ie isolate each issue then put the ingredients together again.
@@MusicMattersGB I am sorry sir but what you have sent me is not enough. There has to be more than just clapping rhythms, reading and singing rhythms, looking at melody patterns, and isolating chords. This is not enough. There has to be something more.
Sorry. It’s difficult to provide a specific response to your particular situation when I’ve never heard you play or sight read. Maybe work through a series such as “Improve your sight reading” by Paul Harris?
nice. i am an adult. I am a vocalist. i have had training in indian classical music and western music as well. My weakness is sight reading. I can recognize line notes and space notes pitches. And i can recognize dynamics markings that add color to the piece. I can recognize time signatures in a particular piece. And also sometimes key signatures in in a particular piece. But i need to improve on rhythm. So this will help.
Thank you very much. I know that the musical alphabet goes A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. There are line notes and space notes. Notes are written on the staff or stave, which consists of five lines. If you sing soprano 1 or 2, or alto 1 or alto 2 or play the right hand on the piano you play or sing what is written on the treble clef . or G clef. If you sing tenor, baritone, bass, or play left hand on the piano, you play or sing what is written on the bass clef or F clef. A good pneumonic to memorize space notes of the treble clef is FACE. A good pneumonic to memorize line notes of the treble clef is: Every good boy deserves fudge. A good pneumonic to remember space notes in the bass clef is: all cars eat gas A good pneumonic to remember line notes in the bass clef is: great big dogs fight animals When space runs out on the staff ledger lines are used to draw notes either above or below the staff. If there are no sharps or flats on a piece of music, then a piece could be in the key of C major. If there is one sharp on a piece of music, then the piece could be in G major. If there are two sharps on a piece of music, then the piece could be in D major. If there are three sharps on a piece of music, then the piece could be in A major. If there is one flat on a piece of music, then the piece could be in F major. I still need to work on memorizing the whole circle of fifths and the minor scales. Regarding rhythm I know that a whole note gets 4 beats, a half note gets 2 beats, a quarter note gets 1 beat, a whole rest gets 4 beats, a half rest gets 2 beats, a quarter rest gets 1 beat, an eighth note gets 1/8 beat, a sixteenth note gets 1/16 beat, an eighth rest gets 1/8 beat, a sixteenth rest gets 1/16, a dotted half note gets two and half beats, a dotted quarter note gets one and half beats, a dotted rest gets one and half beats, a dotted half rest gets 2 1/2 beats. I also know some time signatures. I know that the top number in a time signature states the number of beats in a measure. If the bottom number of the time signature is a 4, then the quarter note gets the beat. If the bottom number in the time signature is an 8, then the eighth note gets the beat. C means common time. C with a slash through the C means cut time. Regarding dynamics: piano (p)=soft, mezzo piano(mp)= moderately soft piannisimo(pp)= very soft forte(f)=loud mezzo forte(mf)= moderately loud fortissimo(ff)= very loud all of this is just a start. but i am trying to expand on this knowledge. I still need to work on getting to know intervals and fully learn the circle of fifths, how to count rhythms.
You want me to put on a suit and come now? And start playing when I reach? Sight reading 250 pages playing the piano? Wow, that's crazy, I aspire to be that great!
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When you say sight reading you're referring to play at the first time you read? Because it would be hard for me in piano, I have to make a strategy to know what is the best "fingering" or position of the fingers, and that is hard to know beforehand. So basically I use the piano sheet as a cheat sheet, just to remember as I learn a piece
It's interesting you mention fingering positions. I'm mainly a guitar player and finger positions are a major challenge for sight reading certain pieces. On the guitar you can play the same note in multiple places and its not always clear which place is best until several bars after you have made a decision to play something in a particular position. Of course you get better a guessing what is likely to work but even experienced readers get caught out sometimes on their first pass.
how much should you look at the fingers while sight-reading? I have been playing for a couple of years, but I have never really been sightreading music. I watch my hands all too much. Should I be able to play almost exclusively looking at the score, and just in short stints watching down to see that my hands are correctly positions?
I had the same problem, but I found that as I improved, I automatically looked at my fingers less and less. So I think that given enough time the problem might be self correcting.
Thank you very much. I find this video very helpful as I'm having the exact sight reading problem you mentioned. I'm not that bad at sight reading, but my muscle memory gets the pitch after a few sight reading trials, and then I end up using the sheet as mean of support. For me I prefer to follow your tips in pieces separate from my piano lessons' pieces in order to make it a 5-minute daily activity. So, would you recommend me any piano scores to do this sight reading thing? Again, many thanks!!
Very good. I used to be the worst reader in spite of learning some simple classical pieces. I had to work very hard on Sol Feggietto by Phillip Emanuel Bach. It took many many weeks. I actually, as you say remembered the piece and between muscle memory and occasionally glancing at the notes..bumble my way though it. One of the WORST THINGD we do..or continue to do is use stuff we learned in primary school like Good Boys Do Fine Always.. Every Good Boy Does Fine Always. Pros don't use them. They know in an instant what it is is ...Of course we have to keep in practice. Practice Base Clef. One key thing is notice the D is the center note on the bass clef and the B is the center note on the treble clef. Then learn then backwards and forwards. EDC CDE on the base clef. Of course if chords are there ..use them. In the Base Clef, the Line notes ascending are GBDFA..1 3 5 b7 9. Space Notes in the Base Clef are A C E G.. AMin7.. Of course going into the ledger area add a B. ACEGB. Amin9. . .
I made a mistake and posted a pasted part twice. I deleted that. I took lessons for years..my time was decided between multiple instruments and I played mostly by ear As I look back on things ..it would have been good for my music teacher to use a few minutes with a flash card. She was a graduate of Carnigie. School of music and usually brilliant minds don't see the value of flash cards.
Just got a distinction in grade 2 flute and theory BUT as I progress in grade 3 I know I am very weak in the area of counting the pulse....please can you suggest a good site with loads of examples so I can practice, practice, practice!
Hi. Congratulations! If you want to work at the pulse in the Aural Tests have a look at the Grade 3 Aural Tests videos at www.mmcourses.co.uk If you want to get rhythm and pulse issues secure have a look at our Sight Singing course that does lots of work on that.
@@MusicMattersGB thanks for your kind comment Regarding accidentals in sight reading,we need only look at your excellent videos on modulation,etc,to work out their significance, thanks again
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Any suggestions how to read modern pieces such as Prokofiev or Rachmaninov with its strange chords, where I may struggle to read one chord taking me 5 secs or more?
should you learn to locate the names of notes on the sheet quickly as well? i can almost instantly identify where the note is on my piano but since i havent practiced locating names of notes it takes me a half second to name the notes
Crotchets and quavers and hemi-demi-semi quavers! Mercy! Aren't whole notes, half notes, quarter notes and such simpler? To my American ear they sound simpler. It's not to be denied, though, that the Brits do know quite a bit about making music,
We’ll get rid of quavers and crotchets if the Americans get rid of the crazy backwards date system that goes month, day, year instead of the sensible way round like everyone else does. 😀
Really, learning to read music is no different than learning to read words. We all started with “the cat sat on the mat”. We didn’t start at 5 years of age reading War and Piece, did we?
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Chacha reham karo logon pe...chod do retire ho jao.... kyun Imran khan ban rahe jab apke bas ka kuch nahin. 😃 Aapka ek video dekha tha "Cirle of fifth" ka... Saala mere dimaag se jo circle of 5th aata tha woh bhi gayab ho gaya...LOL
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Awesome I'll definitely try it out!!
Very helpful video😃
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I think i could pass grade 8 if i had a teacher like you sir .
That’s very kind. If you ever want a lesson on Skype just let me know.
Appearing for 5th grade this nov and 1st grade in piano tomorrow . I shall definitely contact you sir for further grades .
You can anyway☺ You could ask Gareth if he will schedule a mock via Skype.
Always happy to do that.
Can you become my private piano teacher?
The accent in his speech is what makes the teaching sound so excellent, convinced me as soon as he started talkin 🤣 he knows his stuff
That’s very kind. Thank you. Happy Christmas!
Determination or a good teacher will get you there definitely!
Both are needed really.
This is exactly my situation! Found your channel today and have been binge watching. Took lessons beginning at age 5 and stopped at around 8th grade because I felt I learned enough to play all the stuff I wanted to play. Now, at age 43, I’m no better than I was when I was a kid because I’ve stayed in the rut of playing the pieces I’m good at. And I’m realizing I never had a grasp on theory at all (hated it as a kid) but your videos explain things so well. The Circle of Fifths video was a real eye opener. I NEVER saw how it worked before. Now I get it! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!
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My teacher says look over the piece. What is the time signature? What is the scale it’s written in. Look for bars that are the same. Look for phrases that are the same or an octave higher or lower. Once you have reviewed the piece THEN put your fingers on the keys. Another great video ❤❤❤
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You're an excellent teacher! I just signed up for your first sight singing course. I always thought I was an okay reader. Then a choir director handed me Ockeghem's "Missa Cuiusvis Toni"!!! hmmm ... perhaps I'm not the hot-shot I thought I was. I think a systematic study of sight-reading, starting with the basics, is in order.
That’s kind. Enjoy the course then Sight Singing Course 2 will take you further. You’ll soon be reading Ockeghem for breakfast!
I have been a member of my school orchestra for the last 5 years. We regularly sight read symphonies and overtures, and since then, my sight reading has progessively improved. In my Grade 7 piano and Grade 6 violin I scored 20/21 in ABRSM. I'm now working towards Grade 8 piano.
Fabulous. It’s amazing how much those things improve Sight Reading.
From 10 to 13 I learned side flute and solfeggio. My teacher did teach me well sight reading. Allways played with sheet music, but he never gave me any technique, how to memorized. I allway try to remember from begining till end.
Now decades latter I completely forgot all the notes and need to start from scratch all music theory. Even I forgot everything, it help me understand very quickly. I self learning piano for 6m. The funny thing is, now I am very good at memorizing pieces. Now when I already learned Bach Prelude CM and Chopin prelude 4 Em and Clair de lune first 2 pages (learned a lot by challenged myself way above my skills). I have list of 12 pieces I want to learn but my memory in maintaining what I allready know has limits. That's motivated me to put my efforts into sight reading. Thank you, I find very good tips on your Chanel 🙌
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I was always told "Well do hands separate first, then put it together." I was doing fairly advanced stuff. I thought my sightreading would just develope over time. Yeah, it didn't. Well I got good at reading hands separate, but trying to sightread hands together I just fell apart. Now I realize it's ok to do hands separte on major pieces you are working out, but you need to pick things to do hands together at first reading regularly also. I wish someone would've told me this long ago. Instead I had my last teacher tell me (had just had her not very long either) "Well maybe you aren't meant to play piano then." So I just quit the lessons and didn't play for several years because I just couldn't do it or get better. Yeah, now I realize she was a...well you know what.
I hear lots of stories like that and no teacher has the right to say these things. Reading hands together is about seeing patterns and reading harmonic intervals/ chords. It can be done but it takes time. Give it a go....
Music Matters Thanks, at this moment I pretty hyped to do just that. Have a good day sir.
Good on you.
That teachers who essentially told you to quit piano is a POS and should not be allowed to teach.
Somebody once told me that you can consider yourself a good music teacher if you manage not to put anyone off! I think your teacher failed on that score.
I'm a beginner and I really didn't realize (even with a teacher) how difficult sight-reading is. It's quite reasonable at the beginning to be able to decipher a piece and then let your memory take over, but nothing is as frustrating as when your are in front of your teacher and you're told to start with the "F-G-A" sequence and you have a terrible time locating it, or when you are actually playing the piece during a lesson and trying to follow the score, but getting lost all the time. This video, simple as it is, clearly lays out the common difficulty of sight-reading and gives some simple, yet valuable tips, especially for us beginners.
I’m glad it’s helpful. Have a look at our grade 1 Sight Reading course at www.mmcourses.co.uk
You are a REAL teacher or even better a mentor, each one of your videos are great, and the story of your concert was quite wonderful
Thank you
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Even though I know and have experience living with the musical matters you speak of in your instructional videos, I
really enjoy viewing them anyway... you do them well, and I’m always reminded of what’s important and about prioritization. 👍
That’s most kind.
Best! Thank you, When I retire in a year or two, have time and money, I will follow everything.
That’s great. You’ll be very welcome
I would consider myself an intermediate level player. Probably more on the early-intermediate side. I try to set aside about 15 minutes per day for sight-reading. This has helped tremendously with not only my sight-reading ability, but my reading ability in general. I started with the Piano Adventures sight-reading series, which starts very easy, but progresses over the course of five books, for a total of nearly 500 pages of material. And this, to me, is the key to getting better at sight-reading. Lots and lots of novel, "easy" (whatever that means for each individual) material to read every day. Now, in my search for new sight-reading material (which can be quite challenging to find, actually), I'm buying and quickly working through lots of late-beginner/early-intermediate repertoire books. Not all the pieces are truly sight-readable for me, and those pieces I set aside to learn later, or I just learn them right there on the spot, only slower. Anyway, all this took my reading skill from my worst skill to my best skill, by a considerable margin.
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Hey thanks ive got my exam in two days and im rubbish at sight reading. This video helps me
That’s great. Good luck with the exam. Let us know how it goes.
Had classical piano classes for 4 years in my childhood and I've never been able to read notes other than by counting them from G or F. Thanks for this!
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Thank you so much, your videos are always so good and instructive!
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I will take your advice and do sight reading every day in the hope I can match your ability to play music thrown at me with just a half hour notice.---- Thank you for the tips
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I'm a beginner and your videos are better than any live teaching I've experienced, Sir! Much love from India :)
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I find it helps if I listen to how it should sound first - and then I have some idea of how it should be. Also, I try to play with both hands (no matter how slowly) every single day, even if it's only for 30 minutes or so.....
That’s great.
I often find myself when I think I am reading I am actually playing by ear. I start out really focused on reading but then I noticed I am not really reading at all I am playing by ear. I will admit I am totally harp crazy that her beautiful voice just put me into another state. I was trying to sight read the last rose of summer. I played it all the way through. People was saying to me afterwards That is so beautiful you play with so much feeling. But I was thinking to myself I did not read that well at all. And that happens to me everytime.
It’s good to play by ear and to immerse oneself in the music but the reading is also an essential skill.
@@MusicMattersGB yes I know. But I am not doing it on purpose. I want to read. I start out reading but some how it doesn't end that way.
A great way for me was to write a lot of music on paper and sight reading handwritten notes. I think we have to draw parallels to normal reading
Useful strategy
Thank you so much for a brilliant introduction to sight reading.
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thank you! put a lot of the problems I face into words!
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That's quite an accomplishment, playing piano with an orchestra at a performance, literally at the last minute taking over for someone else. Nerves of steel.
One does what one has to do!
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That's encouraging, I've been practising reading for about two hours a day for two months and I am very slowly getting better. hopefully in a year I won't be such a bad reader.
Brilliant. Keep at it
Sight reading is a blessing. By the time I do the routine hands separate, hands together, then getting the dynamics, I HATE 🤬 the piece and I never play it again!
Oh dear!
had several lightbulb moments. many thanks for posting this video.
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Amazing and impressive, you are obviously on that high level, thanks for advice :-)
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You are a brilliant teacher sir. A students learning capability goes up quite a few notches under your tutelage! Bravo!!!!
You’re most kind
Who are you, magical man? You are so clear in your explanations.
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Thank you very much for the great advice.
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Thank you so much for your great insights! I have been practicing regularly simple exercises on the piano, but as a real beginner, they are quite easy to do, so I memorize the notes and play correctly without reading the music sheet... However, I have noticed that whenever I want to play by reading, it takes me a while to work out which note I'm supposed to play. Thank you so much for the advice you have shared, I will be studying scores considering your words.
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I almost had the same situation being thrust into a situation like Graham. But it wasn't for an orchestra, it was for my piano teacher. And it wasn't a 200 page score, it was row row row your boat...with both hands. Since I was born with both ears, I immediately started sweathing...but I plugged away. Did I get every note exactly? Nope. But I carried on. Am I getting better. Slowly. Merci for this video.
That’s great. Well done. Keep at it!
your videos are so useful for my exam preparation! thank u!! 😊👍🏻
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This was the best, so glad i found this channel!
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This are ocean of difference. In Indian classical music teacher always says if you make mistake repeat it. But my Western music teacher said keep going don't stop. It was a shock
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Thankyou this really helped me.
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Thanks a lot sir for these tips. They are very helpful
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Very interesting and Wise Words Indeed ! and thanks very much for your thoughts and advice,.
As a late, late, now more serious starter, ( I've dabbled for years on and off with this life long obsession / ambition)
I think the thing is, we tend to think we're practicing More than we actually Are, so from that point of view, I've now started to log how much practice I'm actually doing, as I think we kid ourselves we're doing more than we are.
The question I ask myself everyday is Am I just too old ? ( a relatively young 71 ! ) . As a retired engineer, making and repairing things, just comes naturally to me, I don't give it a second thought... metalwork, woodwork, decorating, tiling plumbing, I just Do It, which is really annoying when it comes to Sight Reading and Playing a Piano.
The only slightly encouraging thing is, years ago a guitar teacher told me, if you think you've not learnt very much, look back in 6 months time and ask yourself, what you know and can do now, that you couldn't do before ( more wise words). So, having taught myself to read the "Dots" I'll go do some more practice !
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( PS I'm also trying to set myself goals I need to achieve by a given time... that's just as a big challenge! 🙄 )
Brilliant. I am absolutely at DIY so am in the opposite place! Problem understood.
I actually can do most of the skills that you described in your video. But the skill that I do not have and it frustrates me the most is I cannot locate the keys on the piano strictly without looking at them. Because of this deficiency I cannot keep my eyes on the music and therefore my flow in reading it gets disrupted. Any suggestions?
This is a frequent issue. It’s all about spatial awareness and it’s a cause and effect ie if you keep looking for the keys you (a) never learn spatial awareness and (b) don’t develop the Aural skills that tell you whether or not you’ve located the correct notes. The answer is to make yourself read without looking at the keys. You’ll make lots of mistakes at first but you’ll quickly learn to locate the keys and to listen for what is correct/ incorrect. Hope that’s helpful.
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Thanks! It helped much!
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Thank you so much.
I began some days ago.
It's hard for me to play the Celts major scale using left or right hand at a time. I confuse the 3th finger with the 4th finger . I can't play it with both hands together. Everything goes wrong.
I should use the metronomer, but I cannot follow it.
I have to be patient with myself.
I find very interesting when I noticed some patterns.
I try to improvise sometimes.
I am little too old to begin, but most things I've learned were difficult in the beginning.
So I wonder how it will be in a year, if manage to stay alive and keep on practising a little everyday.
I guess I should have started long ago, but things are not easy here.
Just like being in the middle of a tornado or worse. It's a war.
How do you learn anything during a war? People manage to learn in spite of the war raging everywhere.
As long as I am alive, I will keep on trying.
Trying to be patient, to grow spiritually, to understand the context although it does not make any sense most of the time.
Life only makes sense we are among people. Those waging wars are not people.
They kill people and they can also kill the soul.
Stay safe.
That is a most moving message. I am so lucky to live where I do. I can’t begin to imagine what it is like to live in the middle of a war. Music is a thing of beauty and if it brings you some peace in the midst of the war we must be grateful for that. I sincerely hope and pray for better times ahead for you.
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Very good advice, thank you. Hadn't thought of clapping the rhythm, but will do next time.
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Great advice and I have been thinking about this for a while. U had the good fortune of learning the piano at an ealy age but was very much driven to pass exams so I did very little of this valuable activity. There doesn't seem to be many sight reading manuscripts around like starting with C major, then C maj with accidentals, then A minor.... and progressing up the level of complexity a bit like we learn to read text. We start reading with big letters and small words which we break down into letter sounds, then put them together to make words. It would seem natural to be able to do this with music as well. Start with simple key signatures and simple rhythms and get increasingly complex as we go.
The parallel with language is absolutely right.
Very informative.. Thank you !!
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Thank you so much Sir! 😊😊😊
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Great video once again. Thank you. Now if I understood correctly the structure to practicing site reading is 1) count out rhythm 2) sight notes for pitch (look for patterns) 3) play on instrument the phrasing, articulation, dynamics etc. Did I understand correctly? Thank you
That’s a helpful summary.
Gareth, thank you so much for these tips!
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Tell me sir, what do I need to practice on to make my sight reading better? Practice my notes? Practice my rhythms? Practice my articulations?
Practice my dynamics? --- Is that the answer? How can sight reading for 5 minutes a day on any page improve my reading skills if I make the same mistakes that can't seem to go away? I know my rhythms, how to count notes, keep tempo, observe dynamic sights and follow articulations in a page ---- We have all gone past that stage --- etc ---- What does that have to do with sight reading? When sight reading a piece but making so many mistakes that nothing is gibberish is played what's the purpose of playing to the end? What does that have to with sight reading?
If you have truly conquered the ingredients but it’s not accurate or fluent the answer is to read easier pieces then to build up your level. Work back to the point at which you can play accurately and fluently and build up from there.
@@MusicMattersGB Sorry sir but you have not still told me the mechanics of sightreading or the very basics one must know in order to some day become a fluent sight reader. Thank you
Break down the task. Clap the rhythms. Read the pitch. Look at patterns in the melody, the rhythm, and the chords ie isolate each issue then put the ingredients together again.
@@MusicMattersGB I am sorry sir but what you have sent me is not enough. There has to be more than just clapping rhythms, reading and singing rhythms, looking at melody patterns, and isolating chords. This is not enough. There has to be something more.
Sorry. It’s difficult to provide a specific response to your particular situation when I’ve never heard you play or sight read. Maybe work through a series such as “Improve your sight reading” by Paul Harris?
nice. i am an adult. I am a vocalist. i have had training in indian classical music and western music as well. My weakness is sight reading. I can recognize line notes and space notes pitches. And i can recognize dynamics markings that add color to the piece. I can recognize time signatures in a particular piece. And also sometimes key signatures in in a particular piece. But i need to improve on rhythm. So this will help.
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Thank you very much. I know that the musical alphabet goes A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. There are line notes and space notes. Notes are written on the staff or stave, which consists of five lines. If you sing soprano 1 or 2, or alto 1 or alto 2 or play the right hand on the piano you play or sing what is written on the treble clef . or G clef. If you sing tenor, baritone, bass, or play left hand on the piano, you play or sing what is written on the bass clef or F clef.
A good pneumonic to memorize space notes of the treble clef is FACE. A good pneumonic to memorize line notes of the treble clef is: Every good boy deserves fudge.
A good pneumonic to remember space notes in the bass clef is: all cars eat gas
A good pneumonic to remember line notes in the bass clef is: great big dogs fight animals
When space runs out on the staff ledger lines are used to draw notes either above or below the staff. If there are no sharps or flats on a piece of music, then a piece could be in the key of C major. If there is one sharp on a piece of music, then the piece could be in G major. If there are two sharps on a piece of music, then the piece could be in D major. If there are three sharps on a piece of music, then the piece could be in A major. If there is one flat on a piece of music, then the piece could be in F major. I still need to work on memorizing the whole circle of fifths and the minor scales.
Regarding rhythm I know that a whole note gets 4 beats, a half note gets 2 beats, a quarter note gets 1 beat, a whole rest gets 4 beats, a half rest gets 2 beats, a quarter rest gets 1 beat, an eighth note gets 1/8 beat, a sixteenth note gets 1/16 beat, an eighth rest gets 1/8 beat, a sixteenth rest gets 1/16, a dotted half note gets two and half beats, a dotted quarter note gets one and half beats, a dotted rest gets one and half beats, a dotted half rest gets 2 1/2 beats. I also know some time signatures. I know that the top number in a time signature states the number of beats in a measure. If the bottom number of the time signature is a 4, then the quarter note gets the beat. If the bottom number in the time signature is an 8, then the eighth note gets the beat. C means common time. C with a slash through the C means cut time. Regarding dynamics: piano (p)=soft,
mezzo piano(mp)=
moderately soft
piannisimo(pp)=
very soft
forte(f)=loud
mezzo forte(mf)=
moderately loud
fortissimo(ff)=
very loud
all of this is just a start. but i am trying to expand on this knowledge. I still need to work on getting to know intervals and fully learn the circle of fifths, how to count rhythms.
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You want me to put on a suit and come now? And start playing when I reach? Sight reading 250 pages playing the piano? Wow, that's crazy, I aspire to be that great!
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Very helpful . Thank you.
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When you say sight reading you're referring to play at the first time you read? Because it would be hard for me in piano, I have to make a strategy to know what is the best "fingering" or position of the fingers, and that is hard to know beforehand. So basically I use the piano sheet as a cheat sheet, just to remember as I learn a piece
That’s a basis on which you can build. Read regularly and it will improve.
It's interesting you mention fingering positions. I'm mainly a guitar player and finger positions are a major challenge for sight reading certain pieces. On the guitar you can play the same note in multiple places and its not always clear which place is best until several bars after you have made a decision to play something in a particular position. Of course you get better a guessing what is likely to work but even experienced readers get caught out sometimes on their first pass.
Absolutely. So much is about experience and about reading the context.
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Im inspired. Thanx
Excellent!
Wow that is so good! That definitely helped me and my daughter!!!! Love the accent 💋💖💕💕
Are you a examiner??
An ABRSM examiner for nearly 30 years.
how much should you look at the fingers while sight-reading? I have been playing for a couple of years, but I have never really been sightreading music. I watch my hands all too much. Should I be able to play almost exclusively looking at the score, and just in short stints watching down to see that my hands are correctly positions?
Yes. When sight reading look at the music as much as possible and develop your confidence with keyboard geography.
I had the same problem, but I found that as I improved, I automatically looked at my fingers less and less. So I think that given enough time the problem might be self correcting.
Thank you very much. I find this video very helpful as I'm having the exact sight reading problem you mentioned. I'm not that bad at sight reading, but my muscle memory gets the pitch after a few sight reading trials, and then I end up using the sheet as mean of support.
For me I prefer to follow your tips in pieces separate from my piano lessons' pieces in order to make it a 5-minute daily activity. So, would you recommend me any piano scores to do this sight reading thing?
Again, many thanks!!
Basically, read anything and everything! If you want some Skype help let me know.
Thanks So much for this video
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Very good. I used to be the worst reader in spite of learning some simple classical pieces. I had to work very hard on Sol Feggietto by Phillip Emanuel Bach. It took many many weeks. I actually, as you say remembered the piece and between muscle memory and occasionally glancing at the notes..bumble my way though it. One of the WORST THINGD we do..or continue to do is use stuff we learned in primary school like Good Boys Do Fine Always.. Every Good Boy Does Fine Always. Pros don't use them. They know in an instant what it is is ...Of course we have to keep in practice. Practice Base Clef. One key thing is notice the D is the center note on the bass clef and the B is the center note on the treble clef. Then learn then backwards and forwards. EDC
CDE on the base clef. Of course if chords are there ..use them. In the Base Clef, the Line notes ascending are GBDFA..1 3 5 b7 9.
Space Notes in the Base Clef are
A C E G.. AMin7.. Of course going into the ledger area add a B.
ACEGB. Amin9. .
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I took lessons for years..my time was decided between multiple instruments and I played mostly by ear As I look back on things ..it would have been good for my music teacher to use a few minutes with a flash card. She was a graduate of Carnigie. School of music and usually brilliant minds don't see the value of flash cards.
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Analyze the piece before you play it and try to guess what it will sound like! Look at the key signature, look for patterns.
Good advice.
Just got a distinction in grade 2 flute and theory BUT as I progress in grade 3 I know I am very weak in the area of counting the pulse....please can you suggest a good site with loads of examples so I can practice, practice, practice!
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Respected sir , thanks for the information.
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Music Matters Sir pl help me with Trinity Ltcl exam
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EXCELLENT!
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Very inspiring maestro!!
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Can you recommend any sight reading books
Have a look at the Paul Harris series.
For sight-reading, at least vocally, I look for the tonic of the piece and work from that. Then you have only the accidentals to deal with. Good luck
Useful approach
@@MusicMattersGB thanks for your kind comment Regarding accidentals in sight reading,we need only look at your excellent videos on modulation,etc,to work out their significance, thanks again
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I want You teaching me.Indonesia.can Make improve when i Play Piano and The Other Music.Mister .Thank you Mister.GBU
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Can you give scenarios of application of sight reading in teaching music?
Can you be more specific?
I wanna learn sight reading cuz I learned the whole fur Elise (all parts) only from tutorials xD
If you want a Skype lesson or two let me know.
Any suggestions how to read modern pieces such as Prokofiev or Rachmaninov with its strange chords, where I may struggle to read one chord taking me 5 secs or more?
Look for patterns and shapes in the chords and observe how one chord progresses to the next.
should you learn to locate the names of notes on the sheet quickly as well? i can almost instantly identify where the note is on my piano but since i havent practiced locating names of notes it takes me a half second to name the notes
It’s a combination of recognising notes instantly and of seeing note patterns/ chord patterns and how they evolve.
4:50 clap rhythm
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Crotchets and quavers and hemi-demi-semi quavers! Mercy! Aren't whole notes, half notes, quarter notes and such simpler? To my American ear they sound simpler. It's not to be denied, though, that the Brits do know quite a bit about making music,
I agree. The US system is much more logical. Ours is characteristically quaint!
We do that on purpose, to confuse Americans 😉
It's just culture. The American system is logical but by golly Americans love to fuss about anything they are not used to!
We’ll get rid of quavers and crotchets if the Americans get rid of the crazy backwards date system that goes month, day, year instead of the sensible way round like everyone else does. 😀
Really, learning to read music is no different than learning to read words. We all started with “the cat sat on the mat”. We didn’t start at 5 years of age reading War and Piece, did we?
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Music Matters I will go there. Thanks. Pianostyle100
Thank you so much sir
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I need a magic trick for my musicianship class! Never done this before and now I have to sight sing with chromatic notes added 😭
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I'm the worst sight reader in the world
Keep going with it and it will improve.
Yeet I play the sax
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Chacha reham karo logon pe...chod do retire ho jao.... kyun Imran khan ban rahe jab apke bas ka kuch nahin. 😃
Aapka ek video dekha tha "Cirle of fifth" ka... Saala mere dimaag se jo circle of 5th aata tha woh bhi gayab ho gaya...LOL
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