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Tim, I am looking forward to your future lesson(s) on the topic, "Sight Reading". The strategies you presented in today's video is definitely help to strengthen my knowledge of music theory and inspire me to move forward in practicing the piano. Excellent job! 🎶
I'm ecstatic!! I struggled to read sheet music in the school jazz band so I abandoned it after I graduated but those tricks about the even intervals not matching and the odd intervals matching is mindblowing with how simple it is.
So I've apparently been at level 4, but recognizing intervals just became much easier thanks to your even/odd (not matching/matching) technique! I'm pretty sure this is exactly what I needed to progress further!
Thanks for that, it's always good to go over these things. I do treble clef FACE and Every Good Bod Deserves Favour. Bass , ALL Cows Eat Grass and Great Big Dogs Frighten Animals. I know the ledger line below the bass clef is E and 2nd one down is C, and 1st line above the bass clef is C 2nd line is E, I only just realised they are a mirror image of each other. C E on top E C below the bass clef! 😊
Very good strategies. Thank you! I saw an interesting system in China a while back where you have 2 note lines in between the staffs, A and C. That made both clefs have the same note in the same position, F the top line in both clefs and E the bottom line. I always struggled with the bass clef since I first learned guitar that only used the treble.
Hey I was just watching this, very usefull for me as a beginer! I also noticed an error at 7:45, the top note is C so the bottom note got to be an E, instead of D
Thanks for video! I do sight-reading 50 days but still on level one😂 So now i will trying your method and learn every single notes with mnemonics.) Because every good boy really deserve fries.😂
To answer your question, yes. A sightreading video would be very helpful. I am trying to sightread Bach chorals and they are a challenge. But satisfying. I'm just starting out, and it has helped bunches for other music.
@@LessonsOnTheWeb Speaking of Bach, everyone says he's the Old Testament, and so many musicians study him to get a firm basis. You should regularly run your video analysis on Bach pieces for beginners. It got me started on the right path.
Couple questions: How long should it take for me to learn a song, fresh start to finish from the sheet? How long will it take before I can read the sheet and play fluently as opposed to my "double h" level, hesitate and hunt?
Wow that ledger line trick is going to change the game for my sight reading, especially for bass clef. I can’t believe I never put two and two together.
Hi Tim - thank you for this. Would you be able to do a segment for students like myself, who have had years of lessons and can play advanced pieces, but have a sight reading level of beginner? What are your recommendations for those of us who have fallen through the “sight reading cracks” ?? 😂
lol i go back to this video sometimes, when I feel like i am struggling with sight reading, in my 1 1/2 year of music theory/ piano journey and I now understand lol that c e g, b d f a , is just stacked thirds XC lol it's funny its called the sequencing technique, but its cute none the less. however , people learn .
If you play piano you don't need mnemonics at all. Just place your left 5th finger on middle E then skip 1 white key for each other 4 fingers and baam, you have your key references for each note on the lines.
I learned that too but often confused the two when I was first learning since they are similar. So I came up with "Great Burritos Don't Flop About" for the bass cleft. 😅
This approach overloads the memory with superficial disjointed knowledge, with no understanding of the repeating underlying structure. This is not a good approach. THE CYCLE OF THIRDS is the only thing we need to learn - one structure - one memonic, one understanding for all clefs, all lines on or off stave, all intervals.
