Sight-Reading. Is It Worth Learning? - Vlog Season 2 Episode 3
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I have bought a copy of the book and read through it - it looks excellent. I think it will give me exactly what I have been looking for.
I am looking forward to working through it.
I abandoned TAB a few months ago - which, for me, has meant copying out the music from tunes I already had where they do that horrible thing of having the TAB written under the music. Try as I might, I can't resist looking at the TAB and 'cheating'. And actually writing proper music, even copying it, is also helping as I am imagining where my fingers would be as I am writing the notes on the lines.
Paul Green I’m the same way, I’ll look at the tab lol. I’ve been using guitar pro, I’ll take the tab away and practice that way.
Yes! Reading/sight reading opens up a whole world of opportunities AND it can aid in the memorization of musical passages even off the page.
Janek is a master of making 16-minute ads.
jk reading is amazing, and we all should at least try to learn to do it.
This book is a must for me . When i master chordal harmony part 1 . I need this and 2 other books and include chordal harmony part 2 . Got question. d
Do the other books contain a cd inside ? Thanks in advance .
None of my books come with physical media such as CD's and DVD's. The additional content is available to download or to stream, and full instructions are found inside the book on how to access the material.
@@janekgwizdala Thanks one last thing . Those books The ultimate chops does it have reference to bepop scales ?. I really need to improve my vocabulary hate playing same feel .
@@tabonejohann They are definitely not geared towards bebop vocabulary. There's more bebop style language in the "Jazz Vocabulary for Electric Bass: ii-V-I" book.
@@janekgwizdala Thanks . I really appreciate your time for answer me. I will buy that book too . Thanks
Hey Janek! I have a challenge for you: Could you try and see if you can think of anything positive on tabulature? 😅 I try and do this with things I don’t agree with (and vice versa), it’s a fun exercise sometimes. Could be a fun video! 😊
Hey Janek! I'm a Berklee bari sax principal turned bass player. Got the book and I'm super excited to be able to start reading my saxophone and clarinet books, like Klose and Ferling, when I am more proficient at reading on bass. Your channel and books have been super helpful on my journey to be as proficient on bass (and hopefully more) as I am on sax. Thanks!
Hey man! My neighbour has exactly the same name as well as the surname, I was curious whether you was born in Poland or your parents were.
I will definitely get the book 😍✋
OCHENTA! Hhahah, love it. Obviously I'll buy it as soon as I can. Thanks you.
Finally someone who makes it clear reading and sight reading are two different things. EVERY musician needs to be able to read music for reference, learning, communicating with other musicians. Sight reading is a special skill to just read music at tempo the first time. It is a skill that can add a lot to your income. Now those that say they don't need to read music, well you better have amazing ears so you can hear something once and then play it. So are your ears that good if not you need to be able to read music.
It’s like saying is it necessary to read to go to school? The answer is evident
Not at all. I know, and have recorded and toured with, many legendary musicians who don't read a note of music, and have carved out amazing careers. Is it beneficial to you to read music? absolutely as it gives you access to so much more information you wouldn't be able to enjoy otherwise.
@@janekgwizdala You have a point there. Depends on the complexity of music and the musicians hearing and memory. But altogether in my humble experience not being able to sight read well has been a huge disadvantage for me.
Just ordered a physical copy! Can't wait!
Is this book for people with some knowledge or can a beginner use this book. Out of all your books, do you recommend any other before this one? Also, what’s that hole 🕳 on the top edge of your bass for?
It's definitely aimed at the complete beginner, as much as it is for the more advanced. That's the whole concept of the book. Get you started if you've never read music before, and also enhance all your skills if you're already done a little reading already. And then of course, push your limits towards the end of the book.
Some of the other books worth looking into are probably the jazz vocabulary ii-V-I and Bass Player's Guide to Pentatonics. They have some great practice routine elements in them in terms of vocabulary and learning the fretboard.
The little hole on the top of my bass is an "F-Hole" of sorts. As the bass is semi hollow.
After 30 years of performing and teaching thousands of students you have to admit that traditional music notation is harder to learn than actually trying to learn an instrument. It's easier and more logical to teach a student a bass groove by rote than by teaching how to read the notes of that same bass groove and then getting the student to play it. The system for note identification is broken and so illogical and tough for many students to learn, note values are logical because they're based off time and math but for note identification there's too many rules and things to memorize. We been stuck with this system for hundreds of years, its time for reinvention. Tab is more logical than traditional but it's not for all instruments and is not the norm. But if want to be an all around pro you gotta play the game.
I think that, ironically, the only part of your argument for music notation being logical, is actually one of the most illogical element of the entire system. At least in the way it's verbalized and taught in America. half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes? what are they fractions of? a bar of 4/4. And that's it. You don't suddenly call a quarter note a third note when the meter changes to 3/4. So I think that's actually the most flawed part of the American system. It's a little more simple when it's breves, semi breves, minim, crotchet, quaver etc, as we are taught in the UK where I am from.
But lets take the english language for instance. It's not only far more complicated than music notation, it's far more complicated than most languages. Four, Fore, and For all sound identical, but mean completely different things. There are basically 8 different grammatical structures to describe the future, there are silent letters in the baffling spelling structure of the language, and lets not even get to idioms, i before E except after C, and the subtleties of synonyms not always being functional in the same way.
In short, the English language is a minefield of rules. But even if you're not a native speaker and learn it as a second language, the amount of rules for speech (similar to simply performing and learning music by ear without an comprehension of the written note) are almost impossible to fully grasp. Yet people do it. They do it all the time. As native speakers we never question any of this. We just do it.
Now lets take the 12 notes (in western music) vs the 26 letters in the english alphabet, numbers 0-19, and the basic 14 punctuation marks you need to read and write with, and you've got a vastly simpler system. You can flatten and sharpen a note a half step with a sharp or a flat, and a whole step with a double version of each. There are 12 keys that require you to know each key signature, and there are several common time signatures. The reality of reading and accessing music, when compared to something we do every day without every questioning it like speaking english, is actually not that daunting a task after all.
It's something that should be emphasized from the beginning, just like playing a groove. And it's something that will give the student, regardless of their age or musical desires, a huge advantage when it comes to enjoying music.
So no, I really don't have to admit that traditional music notation is harder to learn than the instrument itself. Quite the opposite in fact, if you want to be a good instrumentalist. There are far more hours that have to go into time and sound alone on the instrument, than there are to comprehending 12 notes on a staff. TAB is logical for serving up shortcuts to people who don't want to do the work, and it's useful for selling magazines. But when did shortcuts ever assist someone in being good at anything? in my two and a half decades of working on this stuff, I've yet to find someone that became great by taking the easy route.
@@janekgwizdala I agree on few points. At the end of the day as musicians all we pretty much do is play songs for our own edification or for others to enjoy. We're entertainers. We express through our instrument because we love it. My favorite musicians did just that. Once you intellectualize music like music academics has done for the past 100 or so years, it's not music anymore. Music is in your heart not your head. Becoming a great sight reader will not a make you Coltrane, Mozart, or Gwizdala. It will just get you the gig.
@@janekgwizdala Hey Janek, I'm a professional Bass Player & Composer from the UK. The ability to be able to read music has literarily taken me all over the world.. The truth is that my reading is a little rusty because I don't get to use it as often as I like but.......... When I've been put in those situations where music is handed over, and my other band mates look very nervous, I know I get through the situation. Looking forward to buying the book.. Cheers Wayne : - }
Yes, it is worth learning.
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Great montage
Doh I have just bought the Jeff Berlin sight reading package might have to get this too ...looks fantastic .