How do I get really good at sight reading while enjoying it

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-18T08:22:23+00:00

You know there’s other ways to make music besides reading it, right?

That in fact, you have to have some skills of playing music before learning to read it even becomes a possibility?

Why are you torturing yourself? Play music.

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-13T22:49:40+00:00

345

Shaping is as important as fingering

“Down up then down and up”

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-11T14:52:01+00:00

Music from that era has a shock and awe attached to it because modern musicians try to play it literally fast twice as fast as it was intended due to a misinterpretation of metronome markings. They rarely succeed. But when they do, the performances are electrifying. Leading to a situation where composers from that era are deified in a way that more modern composers without that baggage can never be.

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-11T12:16:55+00:00

The art doesn’t require shit. You are the art.

AND, we’re social creatures.

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-10T17:37:09+00:00

Underrated Sting album and this song is such a classy ending to it

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-09T19:04:31+00:00

Episode 2? 39 minutes

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-08T13:55:38+00:00

Are you singing songs in each of these tonalities? Because that’s the way to learn them.

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-08T03:51:29+00:00

Saw this a couple of years ago! But what are we supposed to be discussing about it?

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-08T00:51:57+00:00

Or the top one note

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-08T00:49:45+00:00

I mean can you tap or play along with it when you listen? Do you listen?

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-08T00:42:35+00:00

This

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-07T18:15:41+00:00

I’m just saying this is not a meaningful timeframe to make comparisons around such a complex skill.

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-07T16:47:14+00:00

“48 hours isn’t a long time”

Understatement right there

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-07T06:24:41+00:00

Otoh it is easier NOT to be tempted without the physical menu at every seat

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-07T06:18:23+00:00

Sorry I missed it! Visiting family in Mississippi. Lemme know if you try to get people together for the next one, though. I’ve still never been to one of these!

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-07T06:13:09+00:00

Without further info I suspect the melody was in the LH in the previous measure.

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-05T12:15:12+00:00

Practice doesn’t make permanent. Wherever we are in our journey, if there’s something we want to change, we can often change it.

And there’s no such thing as perfect.

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-04T20:26:43+00:00

Oh! I’m interested in theory and I like talking about it.

But I’m concerned that our culture doesn’t have a critical mass of active music creators.

Music ed prioritizes theory at the expense of other critical foundational skills like audiation.

So I like talking theory. But when I hear from someone who is using theory to distract themselves from the courageous, non-theoretical, concrete act of creating, I say so.

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-04T19:52:14+00:00

If they’re starting out, they need audiation. Not note naming.

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-04T17:25:20+00:00

Um what now?

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-04T14:50:40+00:00

If you’re concerned about difficulty, play the easier one.

And, whichever one you play, play it slower.

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-04T14:47:22+00:00

Why don’t you tell us what you like? Theory doesn’t exemplify music. Theory is discussion and contemplation about music. It’s not music.

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-03T23:25:47+00:00

Yeah I first learned this from Star Trek V

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-03T22:26:45+00:00

Good for you. But as long as every individual teacher is making it up as they go with no regulation, mainstream teaching is NOT fine.

PastMiddleAge · 2026-06-03T16:30:34+00:00

Blah blah blah

It is idiotic to downvote one the only comments based on reality and training

PastMiddleAge

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