From the course: Piano Lessons: 1 Fundamentals
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Sight-reading pointers
From the course: Piano Lessons: 1 Fundamentals
Sight-reading pointers
- So what exactly is sight reading? Sight reading is the ability to read music with the same fluency as if you were to pick up a book and read the passage from the book out loud. Now, learning to read music is just like learning to read a foreign language. The first step to doing so is number one, to get comfortable with the musical alphabet within each clef. We're talking about the G Clef and the F Clef that we'll be primarily using in these lessons. So you really wanna be comfortable with being able to read and identify what those notes actually are, as close to on sight, as possible. Now, another tip for sight reading is to learn to look at the edges of the music. In other words, look at the top notes and the bottom notes, the melody and the bass. Or in reverse. If the melody is written below the accompaniment, you wanna be able to look at the outer edges, the very tops and the very bottoms of your music. Now, this course is designed to introduce basic chord patterns, the shapes of…
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