How to Practice Sight Reading Music On Classical Guitar
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- How to practice sight reading music on classical guitar or any instrument.
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Times and Topics
0:00 Intro
0:44 What is Sight Reading Music?
1:40 What are the Benefits?
4:40 Priorities When Sight Reading
8:35 Tip for Improving Your Sight Reading
21:17 - Materials for Sight Reading
How to Practice Sight-Reading Music on Classical Guitar - In this lesson I’ll examine ways to improve and practice your sight reading of sheet music notation on classical guitar. However, I think you find all the information relatable to any instrument. If you need to first learn how to read music in general you can check out my educational guitar methods including my free beginner method or see this article on the process of learning to read music. Guitarists are notoriously poor at sight reading so it’s a skill they should include in their daily practice sessions. With daily practice and good materials your sight-reading skills will improve dramatically. I’ll list some sight reading materials at the end of this article.
Benefits Sight Reading
The benefits are extremely rewarding and professionally very important. On a basic level, the ability to sight read will allow you to read easy pieces quite well even if you’ve never played the composition before. At more advanced levels good sight reading will allow you to devour repertoire and survive ensemble rehearsals with other musicians. A wealth of music is ready for you to play and enjoy without much practicing.
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Bradford gives great advice....I remember years ago when I was first learning, my instructor stressed the importance of playing through my mistakes, not to stop and hover over it. I have never forgotten that wise advice in all these year. He taught me how to play through a piece (mistakes included) all the way to the end. But he also taught me to remember where in that piece I had made the mistake so I could go back at my own leisure and concentrate on that bar or measures for later times, so as not to make the same mistake again. That one sage lesson in life taught me that when I make a mistake, to just to get over it, don't hover over it, to let it be a plus. let it be a learning experience and not a negative one... remember that a negative will almost always result in a negative outcome if you let it. Let that little mistake be a lesson, play through it. Just my two cents worth.
Just finishing my first semester in Guitar Orchestra...exposed my sight reading and rhythm weaknesses during the first rehearsal. Painful, but "nudged" me to begin daily work (~10-15 minutes) in these areas. Have already noticed improvement, which also has given me more confidence and enjoyment in being a part of the group.
Appreciate your tips! 🎶
I think the most important tip is the last one. Without wanting to discourage the students, I believe one should not have the expectation that it is possible to reach the same proficiency as many other instrumentalists. If guitarists are poor sight readers, it's not only because they're lazy. It's the combinatorial explosion of possibilities to play the same thing that makes a good decision on the fly impossible. Unless you read some pattern that you've analysed before. Even advanced players and excellent teachers cannot play everything without errors the first time they read it. The only thing we can learn almost perfectly is reading single line melodies.
Ya, and in the end, it's a life-long thing to practice so it doesn't matter how good one is at it, there is always more to practice. All part of the fun.
Really solid advice, Bradford, thank you. I believe jazz and classical guitar should go hand in hand, both styles have so much to offer the student and one transgresses into the other so often.
Bradford, as a "late-beginner" some of this was over my head, but what I did understand makes a ton of sense. Your Classical Guitar Repertoire Lessons Grade 1 & 2 presents the material in a way similar to a method book and might provide good sight reading opportunities for those more advanced. Excellent presentation...thank you!
Very helpful thanks
I played trumpet from grade school through HS. I learned to play the notes with my right hand, but playing guitar I have to play the notes with my left hand, that requires some re-wiring, lol. So yeah, practice practice practice.
Good advice.
Excellent presentation. I really enjoyed this. I loved the "miss a note" (or a few) demo at 13:20.
Thanks, I'm pretty good at making mistake eh?!
Thanks for this video
I'm a classical guitarist from Nigeria.
Your lessons are really helpful.
Glad to hear that!
Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Exactly what I need right now. Just started to commit on learning sightreading with the classical guitar. Thanks again!
Happy to help! Just a little bit practice every day forever!
@@Thisisclassicalguitar "a little bit practice everyday forever" 💯
Barry and Mark need to see this. :)
The reason why I decided to learn with tab instead of reading standard notation is that I wanted to be able to pick up a music book at my level and just play.
I just play alone and not professionally so I think tab is just fine for me.
Do you think you will ever release an all tab book for your various levels books?
I really enjoy the way you teach. 🤗 🌹
U r great teacher 😇
Thanks for watching!
Great video. Interesting and informative.
I think for players like myself, I sometimes have to look at my left hand, so I look away from the music, thus I lose my way. Is there any way to increase spatial awareness for the left hand?
Yes, I would say part of it is having good muscle memory from technique practice so there is a position oriented model for the left hand and then slowly learning to trust the left hand during shifts and other techniques. Scales with shifts are a good method but also shift exercises such as the ones in my technique book where you start small with a one fret shift and slowly increase to two frets, three etc and learn to trust it with and without looking.
Thank you for these tips. I asked that question in one of your videos and then I found this one. My question is: I am a very slow sight-reader. When practicing a piece, I end up memorizing the piece and no longer need to look at the music sheet. What do you recommend in this case?
You probably want to practice sight-reading easier material in order to actually "sight read" it rather than practice it. If you need to, go to a beginner method and sight read the intro exercises. That said, the more you read, even if memorizing as you go, the better you'll get.
When you are sight reading are you thinking the note name while you are thinking of melody/accompaniment and finding? When I do that I feel like saying the note name slows me down idk if that’s a good thing or not.
It's similar to learning to read a phonetic language. At first we spell out each letter and then figure out what word it is but as you get better you just look at the word as a whole and know it. So spelling it out (saying the note names) is an excellent first step but later you'll want to just read through it and know what to do automatically.
@@Thisisclassicalguitar That’s a good way to put it thanks!
cool
thx
Money! Thank you.
All lessons re-study practiced with metronome at tempo speed.
5:55 what is the piece?
It's the first movement from this Matiegka Sonata: www.thisisclassicalguitar.com/sonata-no4-op-31-matiegka/
@@Thisisclassicalguitar thanks, great video btw, love your channel