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Reading music is a complex skill and similar in
many ways to learning a new language. As students learn to interpret musical symbols accurately, they focus primarily on
practicing common patterns and familiar melodies until these patterns become familiar. Over time, new and varied patterns are added to their musical vocabulary.
SIGHT-READING is the act of reading a piece of music that has not been seen or heard by the performer in advance and, therefore, must be interpreted
at sight. Many music educators regard the ability to sight-read accurately as an important indicator of a student's fluency in music reading. Therefore, sight-reading is often used as a major
component of auditions for bands, orchestras, and choruses. |
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Once a melody has been performed one time, it
can no longer be used again by the same student for sight-reading |
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One can find books that consist basically of sets of original melodies that the student may use to practice this
skill. However, once a melody has been performed one time, it can no longer be used again by the same student for
sight-reading. Therefore, printed compilations are limited in their usefulness.
In addition, print materials do not provide the student with the opportunity to hear the melodies played correctly unless they have a competent musician/teacher to
do this for them.
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Better than print
materials!
- Continually updated melody database!
- Correctly hear the melody!
- Any melody in any key or any clef!
- MUCH MORE!
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ANOTHER LIMITATION of most music method books is that the more
difficult key signatures are introduced only after the student has achieved a
fairly high level of skill. The student's first experience in these harder keys
is therefore also more challenging from other perspectives as well. Students
benefit from
playing simpler melodies in more difficult keys in order to
acquire fluency in a logical and progressive system. This approach would also be
preferable for learning to play: (1) in the extreme high and low registers of an
instrument, (2) in new clefs, and (3) in new time signatures.
SightReadThis.com offers the student the flexibility to change any of
these parameters with melodies at any level is of great benefit.
Click here to see how
SightReadThis.com operates. |
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