Most Efficient Way to Learn Sheet Music? - Page 2

kafkaesque

Germany2006 Posts

November 26 2011 22:07 GMT

#21

On November 27 2011 07:03 IamBach wrote:
ok learn the chords so that when you see a group of notes you know what to play. Learn all the keys so you you know what notes to play. Then just read as much as you possibly can, and when you start learning a piece go to a new one. You'll gradually get more and more used to the way the notes looked. Focus btw on playing both hands together so that you don't get in the habit of only looking at one clef.

Haha, that name is gold.

Thanks for this advice also.

No all I need are some beginner pieces that sound moderately nice

Br3ezy

United States720 Posts

November 26 2011 23:40 GMT

#22

every good boy deserves fudge

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key to getting better at anything is doing it

hp.Shell

United States2527 Posts

November 27 2011 00:22 GMT

#23

The only advice I have to become a master at sightreading is to play and practice as many pieces with different rhythms as you possibly can. It's easier to sightread on a single-note instrument, for example the trumpet or saxophone, than it is on a multi-note instrument like the piano or guitar. I feel that this is because there are always more notes to be played at once on the multi-note instrument's sightreading music.

Eventually you will come to a point where almost every measure in the sightreading will be familiar to you in some way from some song you practiced even a year beforehand. The key to sightreading for piano is getting each measure's rhythm correct as quickly as you possibly can so you can basically skim the page, say "yup, I know how to play each of those measures individually" and then it becomes a breeze. This can take years to master. There's a saying that it takes 10,000 hours to master anything... well I think sightreading takes longer.

monty

United States38 Posts

November 27 2011 08:37 GMT

#24

get a pencil and write down finger numbers above the notes. for piano 1 = thumb and 5 = pinky.

if you have problems with scales then write down the flat or sharp symbols by the notes too

also, get a metronome

with enough practice, muscle memory will take over

trias_e

United States520 Posts

November 27 2011 09:22 GMT

#25

Get a beginning classical guitar book. Follow it and assign yourself a daily practice schedule. I used this simple but effective guide, and it worked well: http://www.amazon.com/Christopher-Parkening-Guitar-Method-Technique/dp/0793585201/ref=sr_1_37?ie=UTF8&qid=1322385736&sr=8-37

susySquark

United States1692 Posts

November 27 2011 09:35 GMT

#26

Just a friendly hint, when learning sheet music, especially since you have a guitar background, it is most useful to focus on intervals more than the actual notes themselves. If you know the first note is a C and you see that the next one is a major third up, you don't have to think "E", you just think "third" and your fingers know where to go. Get used to the different intervals and what they look like, and associating them with where fingers go on whatever instrument you're playing. It's all relative - once you've read the first note and gotten you're bearings, the rest don't need to be named.

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