The SightReadThis.com tour
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SightReadThis.com is all about.
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
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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.
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to see how SightReadThis.com operates.
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