sight reading materials

[DepressedNazgul]

Hey, I've found this AMAZING site, it contains a huge document full with phrases to read and practice...

http://www.visual-jazz.com/download.htm

Can you please post any other materials you know about?

[forgottenking2]

Thanks a lot for the material. I haven't gone thorugh it all but it looks good so far. Way to go!

Regards,

[S.Carter]

sight reading materials
Hey, I've found this AMAZING site, it contains a huge document full with phrases to read and practice...

http://www.visual-jazz.com/download.htm

I read through a few of the major scale exercises on the site mentioned. The problem with them is that they are unmusical. Remember: "You are what you eat." So reading a few things like this is OK, just to get some experience with the notes, and the weird skips, but keep this kind of reading to a minimum. Spend most of your reading time on real pieces of music, pieces that sound good to you, but are easy enough to read that you can get most of the music out of them at first reading. That means playing with good time, good phrasing, good dynamics. When I was starting out in reading, I read a lot of simple classical duets for flute and clarinet, and I found standard tunes that were simple enough that I could read them.

I have some reading studies on my site that you might find to be musical. I also have a list of sight reading books, listed in ascending order of difficulty.

Steve

[S.Carter]

To follow up on the "you are what you eat" idea (see my previous post), I want to mention that in my practice book I have a bunch of lead sheets that I read through. I start with simple tunes like "Scrapple From the Apple," and they get progressively more difficult. But they are all pretty easy for me to read. This way, I'm consuming melodies every day.

When you read, you're absorbing more nutrients than you realize.

On my site, on the lessons page, I have a list called "Melodic Expression" which is a list of tunes in increasing order of difficulty. You might want to taste them!

Steve

[Shaman_Santana]

Yeh thanks for that site.

I agree with what S.Carter says also, i mean i find i learn things better when something is practical and certainly when something inspires me. I dont practice sight reading notation yet - mainly because i have no real idea of how it works! Still, to try and change that, i've been just trying to work out some simple blues phrases and write them in powertab with the correct notation (a lot of guesswork going on untill i get it to sound right :D). Still im enjoying it and i think its really helping both my ear/transcribing skills and, slowly, my understanding of writing music and notation.