Hello. I’ve been slam-watching your videos over the last couple of days since I discovered you. I LOVE the mind and mental process tips, and the practical applications you teach. I have been playing on and off for forty years - and I don’t have a single song I can play by heart, or that I can play with sheet music to my satisfaction…And to top it off, my rhythm sucks. You’ve already given me some great tips I’m going to start implementing! Hoping it works for me to join your class…we’ll see. Regardless- Thank you! Appreciate the on-point, smart and pleasant presentations!
Thanks so much for taking the time to say so - I really appreciate you! I’m happy to hear that they’ve been helping - sounds like you have some good next steps!! Woohoo! Let me know how it goes! Also let me know if you need the link for the Facebook community if you’re not already in it - seems like you’d like it a lot :)
For me sight reading has to follow a piece harmonic analysis. When i get a new piece i make a draft analysis of the harmony of the piece thus i can expect what to listen to before i touch the keyboard. This has worked very good for me on Chopin's polonaises which have contain many cords often with changes on the keys (from sharps to flats)
Is it cheating to listen to a piece that you are going to sightread? I have a Level 1 method book with an accomanying CD that I haven't used in over 6 months, and I never finished it. I'd like to use the songs and even the exercises as sightreading challenges. I find that audiating music is an almost impossible task. Thanks for mentioning Starer. You've talked about him before, and I think I'm going to make the jump and buy the book.
Not cheating - I’d say just alternate so sometimes you do and sometimes you don’t. That will ensure it helps and doesn’t become a crutch. And awesome! Lmk how you like it!
@@lucymason4142 There is no wrong, just do (Yoda). Secrets; there are no secrets (maybe clickbait). Sight reading is a combination of hand-eye coordination, muscle memory and pattern recognition. * Hand-eye coordination and muscle memory: Training your hands to move and form the shapes you see without intermediate translation. Like speaking a foreign language without thinking in your native language first and then translating. * Pattern recognition: Ostenatos, triad inversions, phrasing, motifs, question/answer, whatever. idioms (using the foreign language example): Recognizing phrases without individual word interpretation. Basically, practice and familiarity to minimize intermediate translation. With sufficient familiarity, you will read ahead, while your hands are playing a bar or so behind, which gives you additional time to absorb the score.
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I learn so much from you Ashlee
I’m glad! Thank you for saying so! :)
Hello. I’ve been slam-watching your videos over the last couple of days since I discovered you. I LOVE the mind and mental process tips, and the practical applications you teach. I have been playing on and off for forty years - and I don’t have a single song I can play by heart, or that I can play with sheet music to my satisfaction…And to top it off, my rhythm sucks. You’ve already given me some great tips I’m going to start implementing! Hoping it works for me to join your class…we’ll see.
Regardless- Thank you! Appreciate the on-point, smart and pleasant presentations!
Thanks so much for taking the time to say so - I really appreciate you! I’m happy to hear that they’ve been helping - sounds like you have some good next steps!! Woohoo! Let me know how it goes! Also let me know if you need the link for the Facebook community if you’re not already in it - seems like you’d like it a lot :)
Hey - yes I would like the link to the Facebook community, please. Happy New Year-
@@jacksmith4145 here you go! Happy new year!
facebook.com/groups/casualtoconfidentpianoplayer
For me sight reading has to follow a piece harmonic analysis. When i get a new piece i make a draft analysis of the harmony of the piece thus i can expect what to listen to before i touch the keyboard. This has worked very good for me on Chopin's polonaises which have contain many cords often with changes on the keys (from sharps to flats)
Also a good way to do it!
Some of the links are not working when u press on them, it says it’s no longer available.
Oh my gosh thank you for letting me know I’ll fix that!
Is it cheating to listen to a piece that you are going to sightread? I have a Level 1 method book with an accomanying CD that I haven't used in over 6 months, and I never finished it. I'd like to use the songs and even the exercises as sightreading challenges. I find that audiating music is an almost impossible task.
Thanks for mentioning Starer. You've talked about him before, and I think I'm going to make the jump and buy the book.
Not cheating - I’d say just alternate so sometimes you do and sometimes you don’t. That will ensure it helps and doesn’t become a crutch. And awesome! Lmk how you like it!
It’s a shame you didn’t illustrate what wrong sight reading looks like, I don’t know whether I’m doing it right or wrong…
@@lucymason4142 There is no wrong, just do (Yoda). Secrets; there are no secrets (maybe clickbait). Sight reading is a combination of hand-eye coordination, muscle memory and pattern recognition.
* Hand-eye coordination and muscle memory: Training your hands to move and form the shapes you see without intermediate translation. Like speaking a foreign language without thinking in your native language first and then translating.
* Pattern recognition: Ostenatos, triad inversions, phrasing, motifs, question/answer, whatever. idioms (using the foreign language example): Recognizing phrases without individual word interpretation.
Basically, practice and familiarity to minimize intermediate translation. With sufficient familiarity, you will read ahead, while your hands are playing a bar or so behind, which gives you additional time to absorb the score.