How good are you at sight reading?

Not good enough to do that!

 

I would cry.

I can read, but I'm SLOW.

 

I can read good enough to play it slow and then once I have it down play it at regular speed all the way through.

 

Define "moderately difficult." Give me an example.

 

depends how long the little groove is... five notes, working on one note a minute, yeah, i'd get the job done... more than five notes, i'd employ an army of monkeys to work on one note each, and turn it into TaBZ... oh the shame...

simon a

 

WHAT reading?

Say, what are all those little black dots for again?

 

Are you takling Motown sincopation or just tempo with lotsa notes?

If it's lots of note at moderato probably nobig, but that sincopation is a different story.

No reading(except chord charts) on the gig I've been on for the past 11 years, but every now and then a gig will pop up that'll remind you of "what you don't know" , I do however, LIVE for those musical "hotfoots" ,even though I'm not up to being as prepared as I should be.

 

Pacman,

Does your reading chops ever fade a little when you don't read? Do you read on a regular basis even if your current gig doesn't call for it?

 

I'm not Pacman, but my reading chops definitely fade when I haven't read in a while. My main reading gigs are in the fall and spring and I really have to motivate myself to keep reading between those times. I just picked up the Rush "Classics" bass book with transcriptions to all of the popular tunes so it's really challenging my reading; and trying to play the licks is another story.

Tapp

 

I think I've made some great progress with reading music over the past few months. Though I'm still not as comfortable as I'd like to be, still have a lot of practing ahead of me.

At this point I'm better at reading transcribed bass lines than improvising off of the chords. I'm working on changing that.

 

I've had to do "subs" with big bands that required reading a whole gig, and maybe 5 seconds to scan the chart, not 5 minutes! All ya can do is pray that the guy who wrote the chart made all the repeats and signs legible. Walking lines are easy, but some big bands do a variety of material, including James Brown and Michael Jackson, and then I start to sweat! Have I crashed and burned? Of course! Have I caused a train wreck? Not quite, but I've had some very close calls. I do think it's a skill that goes a little rusty if ya dont do it all the time.

 

Well I must say it isn't a situation I face very often these days, but after five years of piano under my belt I read music about as good as I read english. I'm not saying I can put that onto bass, because it's not something I do very often.

All that I read the music for these days is my classical bits, which I get the scores for, and pick them to pieces bit by bit till I have the right fingering and positions. It's hardly sight reading.

But in answer to your question....wait, what was the question again?

-'Rice

 

On this subject I have to quote Jeff berlin whe he says that music reading is like normal text reading. if someone struggles reading a cereal box - then they really can't read , can they?

Once you know how to read, you know how to read! until then you really cant.

So I must say that I cant read - but I am working really hard on it.

 

i consider myself a pretty good site reader. all my auditions required me to site read music. peace
Chad