Reading Speed

[drunkenmosquito]

How fast can you sight read a piece in standard notation? Because I just started with this standard notation stuff about a week ago and I can read quarter notes at 35bpm (pathetic, uh?) :D

I'm just curious, what's your sight reading speed?

[wild_axeman]

How fast can you sight read a piece in standard notation?












slower than a drunken mosquito~! ;)

[SwampDonkey]

I've never tested my sight reading speed before, but I know it would be pretty slow...I don't play standard notation music on guitar very often. I can do it on piano pretty fast though :D

[drunkenmosquito]

Originally posted by wild_axeman
How fast can you sight read a piece in standard notation?

slower than a drunken mosquito~! ;)

LOL!

[Deven MacDonald]

i can play it but very very slowly, and if i know the song i sometimes cheat by playing by ear, now are you talking about playing a song you know the rythm to or that you dont, and you mean just quarter notes, acuse other then that if it gets into a tricky rythm i am soo lost.

[smfulla]

I can't sight read worth (enter explicitive here)

[Deven MacDonald]

If you go out of common time i think for sure i wuld get lot unless i know the song by ear.

[popmusic_sux]

i could but very very very slowly. i used to read it when i played the piano and its slowly coming back to me

[mary]

I can do it quite fast now but it took alot of practice

On the guitar you can play on so many different ways, like depending if you want to stretch, switch strings alot etc.

But i play alot of classical music now with alot of arpeggios and thats quite easy when you have learnt many chord forms.

But if its much of different note values and dotted notes i tend to screw it up if i dont play it slow

[Perfect4th]

Originally posted by mary
But i play alot of classical music now with alot of arpeggios and thats quite easy when you have learnt many chord forms.

That's so true! Learning the chords AND the notes that make them up has helped my classical/fingerstyle playing tremendously.

I practice sight reading some, but not enough. Standard notaion is THE language of music, and like any other language, the more you "talk" in it the better you get. It is a skill that can be developed.


Peace!

[Kalis Reign]

Lol at standard notation. I know where B is then I jsut work my way from there.

Heh well at the jazz band I play I'm just giving the chords I'm meant to play. Heck I always get lost i nthe bars so I jsut impro most of the time :)

[eische]

hmmm, sight-reading... no problem, ok, unless it comes to a lot of ledger lines, then I have to count a bit sometimes, hehe...

...but »sight-playing« that's a different thing... it works only for very simple songs for me, but it's the next big step I go for...

...on the other hand: it takes me hours to figure out tabs :p
...oh, but that's a good training: Take your tabs and transcribe them to standard notation, you will get both the notation-system itself and the possible/preferable grips for the notes at the same time...