If you are brand new to this site, set the tempo at 80 and select Level 1. However, it’s also one the “non-urgent” practice options that frequently gets pushed to the back burner, or simply ignored. The melody accelerates compared to previous examples because of more frequent half-notes. You don't need to source new sheet music to practice! Sight-Reading Bootcamp - Easy to Medium Easy The following files are unison exercises that I cooked up to prepare students for the sight-reading component of Region/Honor/All-State Band Auditions. Some pianists hate it, but everyone can do it and everyone can get better at it. With time, patience and deliberate sight-reading practice it will change. Practice sight-reading of music notes in alto clef. Sight Reading Basic Exercise 1 Melody Notes. No account is needed to practice, but a free account allows users to contribute to the searchable database of exercises, access advanced search capabilities, and create learning communities where exercises can be bookmarked and sequenced for students. If you only want to choose one, the best one is from Ghibli’s picture book series. After we learn to read music notation, sight-reading is the study of doing it on cue and in the moment.. You see 8 randomly generated notes below, use your keyboard, midi controller or mouse to name those notes. This site is an online library of user-created music sight reading exercises. Practice Sight Reading creates random pieces of music for musicians to practice. Guitarists: Maximize your Sight-Reading Skills PART 1 By Eric Lemieux Let’s face it: the guitar is not an easy instrument when it comes to mastering sight-reading. If we compare the reading abilities of guitarists to those of other instrumentalists, such as violinists or keyboardists, guitarists are, generally speaking, poor readers. They are thick (over 150 pages), use simple sentences, equipped with furigana and not to mention, the price cost the same as a 10-20 pages children book! Sequence of Concepts Key 1 – C 26 – F 51 – G 104 – D 126 - Bb 233 –Eb 251 –A 288 - Ab 324 - E 409 – B 410 – Db Melodic/Harmonic 1- Stepwise Sight-reading on guitar is one of those skills that is widely known to make learning and playing music easier and quicker. This is simply a fact. Practice sight-reading of alto clef. I typically make only enough copies to pass out to the students, go through a sheet a day, and go through the process of HOW to effectively sight-read. Sight-reading is a skill that anyone can develop with practice. How to use Practice Sight Reading. >> SPACEBAR to start/stop. Sight-reading at the Piano. Some pianists enjoy it. One of the best resource for beginners to practice reading are children’s book & easy to read manga. If you dedicate 10 minutes each day to developing your ability, it will not be long before you are able to effortlessly interpret the most complicated compositions with ease. You can control the difficulty of the rhythms, as well as the tempo, and pitches. Welcome to the Sight Reading Project! SIGHT READING SAMPLES FOR GUITAR 1st - 8th Grade The Guitar School - Iceland www.classical-guitar-school.com EYTHOR THORLAKSSON & Once in a while I hear a student pianist say "I'm not good at sight-reading music" and for some reason they don't expect that to change.