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View Poll Results: How well can you read Standard Notation? | |
I can sight read
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gimme a minute and I'm fine
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With a few minutes I only miss some notes
|    | 29 | 29.59% | |
I read like a preschooler
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07-30-2006, 09:31 PM
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07-30-2006, 09:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | This is a tough question to answer because it's so relative.
I am a good reader (especially when the pitches are diatonic).
Syncopated 16th note rhythms give me a little trouble, but I can figure them out.
Joe
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07-30-2006, 09:35 PM
|  | prefers electric miles davis | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | preschooler. but if it was treble clef and im playing sax, then i can read most anything. |
07-30-2006, 09:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Out Of My Mind. | | | I can site read, but give me 20 minutes and I am good to go. |
07-30-2006, 09:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota | | | Ledger lines past high G (12th fret G string) always slow me down, otherwise...
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07-30-2006, 09:45 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | I can sight read simple stuff. I'm much more comfortable with a chart and being told to go to town.
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07-30-2006, 09:47 PM
|  | put a bird on it | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Minnesota | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by tplyons I can sight read simple stuff. I'm much more comfortable with a chart and being told to go to town. | same here for the most part...i can do a lot of standard notation stuff if you give me a few minutes to look over it first 
but i do prefer charts to notation...i get to be more creative imo
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07-30-2006, 09:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Fort Worth, TX | | | Can't site read, but I am learning. I am comfortable with a chord chart, though.
Anyone have any suggestions on good methods for learning? |
07-30-2006, 10:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Poughkeepsie, NY/Boston, MA | | | I used to be sight reader for treble clef when I played trumpet. With bass I dont read often so I've lost the ability a bit. |
07-30-2006, 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Figjam I used to be sight reader for treble clef when I played trumpet. With bass I dont read often so I've lost the ability a bit. | wasn't School band Great. I played the trumpet, also. COuld site read like reading a book back then.
21 years of not using it, and I lost it. |
07-30-2006, 10:19 PM
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Originally Posted by thebassclef wasn't School band Great. I played the trumpet, also. COuld site read like reading a book back then.
21 years of not using it, and I lost it. | Yeah I could do the same when I played bassoon in band, but if you asked me to play through the changes you would have received a blank stare, so I guess its a trade off right now.
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07-30-2006, 10:21 PM
| | | | Treble clef I can sight read exceptionally on my trumpet. Bass clef I get tripped up sometimes since I don't have as much experience reading bass clef |
07-30-2006, 10:50 PM
| | | | I can read very slowly, but I know the rythmic part of it pretty well, and I'm terrible at reading parts that are constantly high on the ledger lines-it makes me go down to the G or F clef and do the ol' countin' game.
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07-31-2006, 12:04 AM
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Originally Posted by thebassclef Can't site read, but I am learning. I am comfortable with a chord chart, though.
Anyone have any suggestions on good methods for learning? | Yup. Get to work.  http://www.musictheory.net
Joe
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07-31-2006, 12:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Bassist4Life | Thanks for the link. Looks really interesting and helpful. |
07-31-2006, 12:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Florida | | | i went with give me a minute and im fine. i cant read notation like i would a regular book, i still need a minute to process it all. once i process it, then im fine.
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07-31-2006, 07:21 AM
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Originally Posted by thebassclef Thanks for the link. Looks really interesting and helpful. | No problem. Now you have to do the exercises.  You can do it. I have used this website to help 6th graders read treble clef.
Joe
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07-31-2006, 03:13 PM
|  | No Longer Works a Day Job | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: USA | | | I can sight read pretty well in bass clef. When it comes to reading a head [in treble]-i'm getting better, the main thing that throws me off is the ledger lines.
This past year at school, i got to knock all the rust off of my treble clef reading skills thanks to Music Theory classes. I think the only people in my class that were happy whenever an example [whether for voice or just anaylsis] was in bass clef were the other 3 bass players and I.
take it easy.
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07-31-2006, 03:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: forest hills ny | | | i know where middle C is, and i go from there, i cant sight read, or anything close to it. i need the sheet music a day or so in advance and ill tab it out in guitar pro or something.
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07-31-2006, 06:15 PM
|  | Deteriorating faster than I can lower my standards | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Frederick MD USA | | | Can't read worth squat. I could dope it out eventually, but I'd just be teaching it to my ear, and then playing it by ear.
But luckily I have no need. I play country! The 'Nashville number system" is a lot more useful.
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