This video has been super useful to me, I cannot believe it only has 35 views. I’m a 15 year old piano player I cannot sight read for the life of me but this video has inspired me to have the dedication to look at new music every day and learn from that.
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Absolutely awesome video! Been playing piano for 2-3 months and I've gotten to the point where I can improvise for a session. But I've heard time and again that people kneecap themselves by not learning sight reading. This video is fantastic, I feel more ready than ever to start sight reading practice. Thanks a lot man. New sub.
@@RobertMonroeMusic I understand the importance of starting with new scores to keep improving sight-reading skills, but isn't there also a need to train the direct connection between reading the music and moving the correct fingers? Isn't this instant translation from score to fingers crucial? Currently, I'm learning a wonderful piece by Bach. While I can find all the notes on my keyboard and can more or less sight-read the score, I still see great value in repetition and training my fingers to actually 'read' the score, if that makes sense?
I have been a terrible sight-reader since I started playing in 6th grade. I learned only by ear and play mostly original songs. I learned quickly by ear, and unbelievably I have a B.A. in music performance. I'm going back to 4-part choral sight-reading for the Nth time. "after the third time through, you're not Sight-Reading!" Thanks for the coaching.
I think there is also an aspect to becoming familiar with written music, even though it may not be “prima vista”, you associate structures with hand shapes and positions and become comfortable with their deployment as they are recognized in varying pieces…
Sight reading is to music As reading is to books Reading doesn't make you a better student, but everyone knows literacy is important Same with sight reading
On your last point there about setting a (possibly artificial) goal of learning a piece in a week etc, something I've found quite helpful (considering I'm fairly new to piano) is trying to learn the hymns from a Sunday church service in the week following the event, so I give myself a week, and its maybe 4 hymns. Even if I just try sight reading them once, its a way of picking pieces thats out of my control and varies from week to week, and has a fixed schedule. Thanks for the video, I'm hoping to improve my sight reading! Would have been nice to see a demo of you sight reading something on camera that you've never seen before to show that your theory works.
I disagree with your view that learning sightreading doesn't teach you real music. I think that's taking a fairly short view on sightreading. When you're sightreading, you need to make all sorts of on-the-fly phrasing decisions that will directly train your ability to interpret music, while at the same time you need to be engaging your predictive abilities with the structure of the music so that you can generate an expectation of what's coming next and recognize whether you played it correctly (and properly deal with the case where you're surprised!). You need to be able to go "aha, I see what's going on here" and be able to comprehend structures on a broader timescale than note by note. I'd say that if you're just reading note by note, even if you get all of the notes *right*, you're sightreading wrong.
Summary: - hymns are good sight reading material - do not stop or repeat notes - in advanced mode you are also not allowed to pause - you can sight read every piece just once - you will get much better than you think with regular practice
I think that is very easy to prove false. Franz Liszt, bach, John Petrucci, Oscar Peterson, etc. Many great musicians can't read music absolutely. The Greatest I think would be at least 50% could read maybe more. Also subjective
Sight singing is super awesome. Very effective for learning music. Yes it can be more challenging because of the singing part. Unfortunately the downside is learning multiple parts at the exact same time
