My sister was great at sight reading, and she doesn't care for the piano. I would probably kill to have her ability as I'm the music lover in the family. Life can be so cruel.
@@Rationalist101 What system did you use to learn sight reading. An y tips? You heard the woman in the video say this is a struggle for her. I would appreciate any input.
i think know the name of notes for beginner is also important. isnt it? idk im beginner too and i found out knowing all the notes and identify it faster everyday helps too for beginner
ChainJail You are correct. It’s essential to know the names of notes. However, music is made from groups or patters of notes. Recognizing the patterns makes learning music easier. This is also why music theory is so important. Keep up the good work! 😊
The way I learned to sightread was after I joined my school band. When I took private piano lessons, I'd pause and my teacher would tell me the note. This led to me learning by ear and memorization, no actual reading. However, in band you're forced to read and learn on your own and since I never practiced at home (the mallet family is easy to learn if you play piano), I ended up sightreading most of the time without proper time to remember it. All I use FACE, but you get used to seeing D and remembering it's a D in reference of FACE. This might not make sense, but that's what worked for me at least. It's been almost 3 years and I've improved in sightreading and reading as a whole. Practice every day and you'll get it.
I love your advice to circle the sharps or flats. I do this and it helps me get through learning songs a bit faster. Some people have tried to discourage me from doing it, because they're afraid I'll get too dependent on it. But it really seems to cue me about sharps and flats. And, like you said, you don't necessarily have to think about every note.
Another approach is to pencil in the sharp or flat before a note. Sometimes when dealing with a measure that has a bunch of accidentals (i.e. a line of 16th notes that ventures outside of the key), it can be easy to forget if a note was marked flat or sharp 2 beats ago..
So true! There is no shortcut. It takes a lot of practice. It's interesting because you just keep on practicing and you don't really even think much about how good you can sight read. You just keep reading and reading, and years after, you realize that it almost becomes second nature to sight read, and it also becomes fun. Well, for some music.
I haven't read music properly for nearly 30 years since I was learning as a child. I watched this video at work came straight home and swear I just played the first 2 parts of Shine on you Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd on my Keyboard almost off pat. Was literally Music to my ears. Thank you so much ! I'm going to keep practicing.!!!
From a music teacher: you’re a wonderful teacher! Thanks. Also, if I may venture a compliment: your eye structure and the corners of your mouth ate hecka pretty!
Thanks! I hadn’t thought of anchor notes and thinking in chords across both hands My tip- you are not failing if you go right back to total basics to sort out your sight reading. Don’t be afraid of it. The simpler the better. Books that teach reading from a Chord and Interval approach are the fastest way to start getting a bit of progress. Alfred Piano books and I’m told Faber use this. Im using the Alfreds and have gone through from 1b to level 3 and its really helping. Previously I’d got to ABRSM grade 6 without being a fluent reader and it was really frustrating! Thanks for addressing this. I’m looking for anything to help sort this out!
Yes, excellent sight-reading tips. I would add 1) identify any challenging rhythm patterns and clap them out. 2) (Although some people do this naturally, some don’t) while playing, always be looking ahead at least to the next note.
I just love watching and learning from your lessons. You have a very pleasant and calming way of teaching the student without feeling overwhelmed. Keep them coming!
I'm one month into learning piano (65 retired) and find sight reading incredibly difficult. I do what everyone says you shouldn't do and write the notes in. 😔 If I didn't I would never move forward. So far Fur Elise (easy part) and Greensleeves also 1st part of Cannon. Lots of chords which I find difficult to remember names of🤪 lots of scales practice!
It's not the worst thing in the world, if it's helping you play and enjoy the piano! That's the main thing. As you keep practicing it does get easier and hopefully you can find that you won't have to write the notes in as much :) Good luck!!
I appreciate your clear and patient explanations and tips. You make learning fun. I am not a beginner but I am picking things up again and wish to advance . My first instrument was the accordion so your left hand exercises was very helpful, in particular .Thank you for your great attitude and lovely smile. Jeff Corino
Thank you! I've read music for years but never fluently. You've laid out some concepts that I can understand and use to develop my sight reading skills.
Your tips are perfect for me. I am picking up things slowly, and your videos help a great deal. Your enthusiasm is motivating for me. Thank you for all you do especially for us beginners.
My biggest tips would be: keep your eyes on the sheet music as much as possible (but not the full way through, which is worse) and to not stop. Try picking a tempo to where it's very easy to play said piece without stopping much and without excessive need to look down. And if you are not like me, where you need to look at the music instead of your hands, then you likely might have an easier time with this than I would. Naturally, I've learned on the piano how to memorize the sheet music I need to play so I can focus mostly on my hands; and that has become a slight hinderance to my sight reading.
"if you're more of an ear player than a sight reader" oh my GOD lightbulb moment!! even though chords are still another language to me lmao. I'm an adult learner (started in my 20s and omg ten years already...) but I've liked piano since I was little so I got to know the *sounds* of notes waaaaaaay before I ever learned *where* the notes are or what they were called. also having a disability that affects my hands means I have to always look at the keyboard bc I'm nowhere near the level of "feeling" where my fingers are, even on a piece I know well. I think the chord chart method might also help me to know what a note is from hearing it, without looking at the music, or hunting for the notes like I usually do ("no, yikes nope, oh there it is!"). besides, my right hand's the obedient one since I'm a lefty :P so glad I found this channel!!
Best advice or "tip" for sightreading is to just force yourself to sightread for 30 minutes a day. These things come naturally if you just do that every day. All the things you mentioned in the video should be done away from the piano. Practice away from the piano is very important In classical music.
@@varunsathya696 don't do it for too long at a time that just tires out your brain if you're gonna do it 2 hours total take breaks in between. You can also use flashcards and stuff
I still need to learn all the scales... I should do that flash card idea indeed for that 🙂 Up to now i literally read the key signature and remember all the changed notes. But that’s undoable for large pieces. Oh well there are infinite things to learn in music.
Very helpful. Thanks. I'm working my way through an "easy" piano book of movie songs and, in addition to improving my sight reading, I'm having fun trying to flesh out the music to make it richer.
Big thanks for the tips!!! ❤ If even you find sight-reading difficult, that means I am just a normal person. I used to think very bad of myself for not being good at it 🤗
How to get better at sight reading - spend thousands of hours doing it! All the things you mentioned definitely help improve efficiency though. Love your style of making videos
U r videos are very help ful i am not 100% in sightreading but i gotten 70% from u r video and also needed u r more piano exercises and i am regularly practicing your exercises and its really help ful thanks ! And need more videos Very help full chennal :)
Eeeehee someone who also highlights their music!! I highlight dynamics too hehe. Sometimes I write the patterns down and then put them in brackets along the staff. If some parts are repeated I do big vertical* brackets on the measures to put them in chunks.
I can't wait to apply this for trumpet playing. I think that I need to learn to trust my pattern recognition skills. To practise that and to develop my trust, I will find any 2 notes in musical exercise books, and then just play the notes in between.
I usually just figure out which note is the first and then use intervals to find the correct notes on the keyboard,makes it super easy to learn a new song and you don’t need to think about each note
I am using the Lorene McClintock piano method to learn to play piano, which includes theory and reading written music, I am finding it extremely helpful to learn to sight read, I am at lesson 79 of 201 lessons and I feel by the time I finish lesson 201, I will have a good handle on reading music and playing piano, then I can go on to playing different styles of music! I hope this info helps people!
I'm fairly good at sight reading and the way I do it is nothing like this. I took lessons when I was young but that method didn't work for me. I was an adult when I really picked it up. Rather than associating lines and spaces with letters, I cheated and just associated them with positions on the keyboard. To get to letters, I have to visualize the keyboard, but the advantage is that I see the line or space and can point to it on the keyboard. I even do pretty well with ledger lines.
@@privcraft_ doesn't this come naturally when you have been reading sheet music for a while? I mean if I see a C on the sheet, then my brain does know where it is but I still gotta look for it lol
rewatching this video because I knew at first (personally) I forgot some techniques on how to sightreading : Look at the patterns and train to sight reading while paying attention to take a short glance at the piano simultaneously.
Currently The guy who's teaching me he's so good whenever i take a sheet music to him he starts humming without touching the piano, even when he's not in front of the piano. He's that good!
@@TheGenesect10 I'm sounding like a pundit 😅 but honestly I'm yet to do it. But keep trying. It's not a matter if joke. Don't give up even it takes years.
Rishi Roy Hehe! You are right though, it takes a long time to master it but it’s important, and I wanna be in a band someday so hopefully I can do that!
What is this fetish of being able to sight read hard pieces? Is it not impressive to play a brilliant and beautiful piece of music by memory? It's like some people in.music.are.more.fascininated by abstractons than the actual music lol
@@GM-yb5yg Well, in my case, I don´t want to read a piece a billion times to learn. I just want to play for myself and some friends. When I have to play in concerts, yes, I study slowly each single bar, but when I have a new piece, it´s mostly frustrating not being able to sit and play at least decently. This is my fault, I know. The secret is to sight read every day since childhood. I´m 54 now, a bit late to incorporate this skill, but over the years, my ability to read has increased, an I am mostly a Jazz pianist and keyboardist.
G Mercado If you can properly sightread then you can play any piece you like, instead of being stuck memorising a single piece for months. I’d rather be able to play any sheetmusic “somewhat” than a only one single piece so perfect that you’re already tired of hearing it before the time it’s all memorized. I could swap your “fetish” and “some people lol...” attack lines the other way around about memorizing music, so they add no value in how true your message is.
Great video! There is a great free program named jalmus, been out there for many years- it just runs randomly generated notes at you on a staff and grades your note and timing accuracy- once installed go to exercises>score reading and be sure to really play with the preferences so you understand how flexible it is, key, speed, notes- it teaches (at all levels) the most important things in sight reading- rapid note recognition and timing. Even if you don't hook a keyboard to your computer it is a fantastic tool . It is highly condensed learning.......................... best thing I ever did for my sight reading was come back to jalmus and work slowly and deliberately daily
These tips are great for sight reading, although I don't think it'll help you learn faster. Thi is a process which you'll have to do with every single piece. I learned sight reading by first just looking at the sheet music while listening to it one time, and then just start playing. This way you'll link the notes to the sound you've just heard, and you'll learn the notes individually instead of in pairs, which I think helps more, since this way you'll be able to see what note on the sheet music is on the piano faster, which will make sight reading much easier
A - outline in red, B- outline in orange... keep going in a rainbow fashion all the way to G that you leave as black. For Black keys you add a dot of glitter along with the color. As long as you memorize what the keys look like on the piano you're set.
Sight reading comes more natural to me, I’ve only been learning for like 6 months and I feel very stuck right now, also I have my first piano recital in a month :)
BRAVA! I especially like the chord recognition idea. Excellent tips, thank you. I ask my students to flip pages in a music book and play a few measures each day. They are beginning to enjoy the process. 👏
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How's it going! Must be amazing to have a keyboard in your hands, I'm just waiting for my piano to come :D
Emma Madsen Did you get it? :D
Nick W How’s that going brother?
TheGenesect10 it’s great thanks, I’ve learned some einaudi pieces. It’s a joy to be able to play them
You are such a good teacher! I am 68 and I’m still learning from you!
Pamela Clayton one more year
mar10 lmao
You are now 69
@@mettapeachhead2076 lmao
My sister was great at sight reading, and she doesn't care for the piano. I would probably kill to have her ability as I'm the music lover in the family. Life can be so cruel.
You can always acquire the skill yourself through practice bro... it's never too late
@@Rationalist101 Do you sight read?
@@carlosrobbins9178 Yes.
@@carlosrobbins9178 In fact I played the first song in this video
@@Rationalist101 What system did you use to learn sight reading. An y tips? You heard the woman in the video say this is a struggle for her. I would appreciate any input.
good advice
Students often get hung up on identifying/naming every single note. Looking for patterns is the way to go.
i think know the name of notes for beginner is also important. isnt it? idk im beginner too and i found out knowing all the notes and identify it faster everyday helps too for beginner
ChainJail You are correct. It’s essential to know the names of notes. However, music is made from groups or patters of notes. Recognizing the patterns makes learning music easier. This is also why music theory is so important.
Keep up the good work! 😊
The way I learned to sightread was after I joined my school band. When I took private piano lessons, I'd pause and my teacher would tell me the note. This led to me learning by ear and memorization, no actual reading.
However, in band you're forced to read and learn on your own and since I never practiced at home (the mallet family is easy to learn if you play piano), I ended up sightreading most of the time without proper time to remember it. All I use FACE, but you get used to seeing D and remembering it's a D in reference of FACE.
This might not make sense, but that's what worked for me at least. It's been almost 3 years and I've improved in sightreading and reading as a whole. Practice every day and you'll get it.
Love this! Keep up the great work! :)
I love your advice to circle the sharps or flats. I do this and it helps me get through learning songs a bit faster. Some people have tried to discourage me from doing it, because they're afraid I'll get too dependent on it. But it really seems to cue me about sharps and flats. And, like you said, you don't necessarily have to think about every note.
Another approach is to pencil in the sharp or flat before a note. Sometimes when dealing with a measure that has a bunch of accidentals (i.e. a line of 16th notes that ventures outside of the key), it can be easy to forget if a note was marked flat or sharp 2 beats ago..
So true! There is no shortcut. It takes a lot of practice. It's interesting because you just keep on practicing and you don't really even think much about how good you can sight read. You just keep reading and reading, and years after, you realize that it almost becomes second nature to sight read, and it also becomes fun. Well, for some music.
I haven't read music properly for nearly 30 years since I was learning as a child. I watched this video at work came straight home and swear I just played the first 2 parts of Shine on you Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd on my Keyboard almost off pat. Was literally Music to my ears. Thank you so much ! I'm going to keep practicing.!!!
Very good lesson!
Yes lord praise
I love you
Oh my G, the Lord has arrived!
My word, what a delightful person. You make learning that much more interesting just by your enthusiasm and personality alone.
From a music teacher: you’re a wonderful teacher! Thanks. Also, if I may venture a compliment: your eye structure and the corners of your mouth ate hecka pretty!
Thanks! I hadn’t thought of anchor notes and thinking in chords across both hands
My tip- you are not failing if you go right back to total basics to sort out your sight reading. Don’t be afraid of it. The simpler the better. Books that teach reading from a Chord and Interval approach are the fastest way to start getting a bit of progress. Alfred Piano books and I’m told Faber use this. Im using the Alfreds and have gone through from 1b to level 3 and its really helping. Previously I’d got to ABRSM grade 6 without being a fluent reader and it was really frustrating!
Thanks for addressing this. I’m looking for anything to help sort this out!
Thank you for that!
Patience and persistence can get you far,thanks for the tips.
Yes, excellent sight-reading tips. I would add 1) identify any challenging rhythm patterns and clap them out. 2) (Although some people do this naturally, some don’t) while playing, always be looking ahead at least to the next note.
I just love watching and learning from your lessons. You have a very pleasant and calming way of teaching the student without feeling overwhelmed. Keep them coming!
I agree!!!!
I'm one month into learning piano (65 retired) and find sight reading incredibly difficult. I do what everyone says you shouldn't do and write the notes in. 😔
If I didn't I would never move forward. So far Fur Elise (easy part) and Greensleeves also 1st part of Cannon. Lots of chords which I find difficult to remember names of🤪 lots of scales practice!
It's not the worst thing in the world, if it's helping you play and enjoy the piano! That's the main thing. As you keep practicing it does get easier and hopefully you can find that you won't have to write the notes in as much :) Good luck!!
I appreciate your clear and patient explanations and tips. You make learning fun. I am not a beginner but I am picking things up again and wish to advance . My first instrument was the accordion so your left hand exercises was very helpful, in particular .Thank you for your great attitude and lovely smile. Jeff Corino
Thanks so much Jeff!
Thank you! I've read music for years but never fluently. You've laid out some concepts that I can understand and use to develop my sight reading skills.
Your tips are perfect for me. I am picking up things slowly, and your videos help a great deal. Your enthusiasm is motivating for me. Thank you for all you do especially for us beginners.
It is hard. Sight reading takes a lot of practice.
Yep
my piano teacher told me that i have to learn how to sight read. so that’s what i’m trying to do and its sooo hard ;(
My biggest tips would be: keep your eyes on the sheet music as much as possible (but not the full way through, which is worse) and to not stop. Try picking a tempo to where it's very easy to play said piece without stopping much and without excessive need to look down. And if you are not like me, where you need to look at the music instead of your hands, then you likely might have an easier time with this than I would. Naturally, I've learned on the piano how to memorize the sheet music I need to play so I can focus mostly on my hands; and that has become a slight hinderance to my sight reading.
Another tip: Listen to the piece first and understand it. Then read not notes like letters but like words and sentences.
I am a beginner and the piano flashcards app is helping me a lot.
I would recommend this to any new music readers out there.
I am learning so much from you Lisa! You are fun and inspiring. A great teacher! Thank you!
"if you're more of an ear player than a sight reader" oh my GOD lightbulb moment!! even though chords are still another language to me lmao. I'm an adult learner (started in my 20s and omg ten years already...) but I've liked piano since I was little so I got to know the *sounds* of notes waaaaaaay before I ever learned *where* the notes are or what they were called. also having a disability that affects my hands means I have to always look at the keyboard bc I'm nowhere near the level of "feeling" where my fingers are, even on a piece I know well. I think the chord chart method might also help me to know what a note is from hearing it, without looking at the music, or hunting for the notes like I usually do ("no, yikes nope, oh there it is!"). besides, my right hand's the obedient one since I'm a lefty :P
so glad I found this channel!!
Me in my 6th year of playing piano and had to figure EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE by myself 👁👄💧👁
Best advice or "tip" for sightreading is to just force yourself to sightread for 30 minutes a day. These things come naturally if you just do that every day.
All the things you mentioned in the video should be done away from the piano. Practice away from the piano is very important In classical music.
Dude, I sightread like 2 hours a day at least, i don't see much improvements either, I'm still stuck at grade 0-1
@@varunsathya696 don't do it for too long at a time that just tires out your brain if you're gonna do it 2 hours total take breaks in between. You can also use flashcards and stuff
@@mistadude it definitely helps to do flashcards :D I've improved a lot lately!
@@varunsathya696 Awesome!!
I still need to learn all the scales... I should do that flash card idea indeed for that 🙂 Up to now i literally read the key signature and remember all the changed notes. But that’s undoable for large pieces. Oh well there are infinite things to learn in music.
Very helpful. Thanks. I'm working my way through an "easy" piano book of movie songs and, in addition to improving my sight reading, I'm having fun trying to flesh out the music to make it richer.
You are the best teacher ever
Big thanks for the tips!!! ❤ If even you find sight-reading difficult, that means I am just a normal person. I used to think very bad of myself for not being good at it 🤗
The one and only word is developing sight reading has no shortcut but hard practice.
How to get better at sight reading - spend thousands of hours doing it! All the things you mentioned definitely help improve efficiency though. Love your style of making videos
Love your lesson I feel like Iam in a class that help., Being a intermediate piano getting back in to Playing again sight reading over playing by ear
U r videos are very help ful i am not 100% in sightreading but i gotten 70% from u r video and also needed u r more piano exercises and i am regularly practicing your exercises and its really help ful thanks ! And need more videos
Very help full chennal :)
Thank you teacher
Thank you for your invaluable tips. You described me perfectly.
The chord tip is priceless thanks
I love the pink unicorn. Reminds me of my daughter who loves pink unicorns 🦄 Good sight reading tips. I'll have try them.
Eeeehee someone who also highlights their music!! I highlight dynamics too hehe. Sometimes I write the patterns down and then put them in brackets along the staff. If some parts are repeated I do big vertical* brackets on the measures to put them in chunks.
My mind was blown by the fifth step. new subscriber 😁
Cool THANKS for helping me. Im a bassest by ear fir over 30yrs learning piano play be 👂 but needing to learn music. Again thanks very appreciated.
I can't wait to apply this for trumpet playing.
I think that I need to learn to trust my pattern recognition skills. To practise that and to develop my trust, I will find any 2 notes in musical exercise books, and then just play the notes in between.
thank you ! im 11 and learning piano and this really helped me learn!
I love ur teaching scales.......super good , easy to understand.
Minuet in G major was my first ever recital song!!!
I usually just figure out which note is the first and then use intervals to find the correct notes on the keyboard,makes it super easy to learn a new song and you don’t need to think about each note
First! I was searching all over UA-cam for this, and then you upload it! Thanks a bunch
Same
Great video. Thanks for sharing with us.
Thank you
Excellent thank you so so much your a great teacher learn so much. God bless you
This advice is spot on. Very valuable tips on how to learn the pattern recognition of reading notation. Excellent.
Thanks Jay!
A great sight reading technique! It's cool that we musicians may share our experience on a bigger scale!
Thank you. I needed some tips. I will have to get back to you
I am using the Lorene McClintock piano method to learn to play piano, which includes theory and reading written music, I am finding it extremely helpful to learn to sight read, I am at lesson 79 of 201 lessons and I feel by the time I finish lesson 201, I will have a good handle on reading music and playing piano, then I can go on to playing different styles of music! I hope this info helps people!
Your videos keep me motivated every single time. Thank you for the great job!
You made me want to get a keyboard🫢thank you very much🙌🏼🎹🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Amazing tips! That'll help me a lot.
I'm fairly good at sight reading and the way I do it is nothing like this. I took lessons when I was young but that method didn't work for me. I was an adult when I really picked it up. Rather than associating lines and spaces with letters, I cheated and just associated them with positions on the keyboard. To get to letters, I have to visualize the keyboard, but the advantage is that I see the line or space and can point to it on the keyboard. I even do pretty well with ledger lines.
@@bettyangwenyi1797, I'm not sure. I struggled with explaining it the first time. Is there anything in particular you want explained?
@@bettyangwenyi1797 Basically when they see a note, they think of a piano position, not the note name.
@@privcraft_ doesn't this come naturally when you have been reading sheet music for a while? I mean if I see a C on the sheet, then my brain does know where it is but I still gotta look for it lol
Thanks for the helpful tips. I always thought you shouldn't edit the sheets. Now everything makes more sense:)
Thank you for this. Great system!
I would love to see more video like this.
rewatching this video because I knew at first (personally) I forgot some techniques on how to sightreading : Look at the patterns and train to sight reading while paying attention to take a short glance at the piano simultaneously.
Ohhhh this video provide me with much knowledge that I could not figure out myself and struggled with reading notes. Thank youuuuu 💯💯💯
Classical *piece*
Thank you so much for your video tips, very helpful! I never thought I could do a music note analyses that could help speed up the process so much! 💖
She's awesome teacher!
Great tips! Thank you!
Currently The guy who's teaching me he's so good whenever i take a sheet music to him he starts humming without touching the piano, even when he's not in front of the piano. He's that good!
Damn!
@@TheGenesect10 sightsinging is important for everyone. If one's serious bout his music.
Rishi Roy Yep! I am learning it now, and while I know how to read it I am not so fast of doing so
@@TheGenesect10 I'm sounding like a pundit 😅 but honestly I'm yet to do it. But keep trying. It's not a matter if joke. Don't give up even it takes years.
Rishi Roy Hehe! You are right though, it takes a long time to master it but it’s important, and I wanna be in a band someday so hopefully I can do that!
These are terrific tips! You are a great teacher and enjoy what you are doing! Thanks for this lesson!
Thank You! I love Bach!
1. Look at the music
2. Look for patterns
3. Set up for logical fingering
4. Identify anchor notes
5.turn sheet music into chord chart
omg this lesson helped soooo !! muchh
Sheet music right at my level
Great video
Great tips
Great enthusiasm
Thank you.
The problem with people teaching sight reading on UA-cam is that they only talk about easy pieces. I wish to sight reading Scriabin or Liszt music.
You can’t sight read the hard pieces until you can fluently sight read easy pieces and work your way up.
@@NinaKeilin but I know how to sight-read these easy pieces
What is this fetish of being able to sight read hard pieces? Is it not impressive to play a brilliant and beautiful piece of music by memory? It's like some people in.music.are.more.fascininated by abstractons than the actual music lol
@@GM-yb5yg Well, in my case, I don´t want to read a piece a billion times to learn. I just want to play for myself and some friends. When I have to play in concerts, yes, I study slowly each single bar, but when I have a new piece, it´s mostly frustrating not being able to sit and play at least decently. This is my fault, I know. The secret is to sight read every day since childhood. I´m 54 now, a bit late to incorporate this skill, but over the years, my ability to read has increased, an I am mostly a Jazz pianist and keyboardist.
G Mercado If you can properly sightread then you can play any piece you like, instead of being stuck memorising a single piece for months. I’d rather be able to play any sheetmusic “somewhat” than a only one single piece so perfect that you’re already tired of hearing it before the time it’s all memorized. I could swap your “fetish” and “some people lol...” attack lines the other way around about memorizing music, so they add no value in how true your message is.
Great video! There is a great free program named jalmus, been out there for many years- it just runs randomly generated notes at you on a staff and grades your note and timing accuracy- once installed go to exercises>score reading and be sure to really play with the preferences so you understand how flexible it is, key, speed, notes- it teaches (at all levels) the most important things in sight reading- rapid note recognition and timing. Even if you don't hook a keyboard to your computer it is a fantastic tool . It is highly condensed learning.......................... best thing I ever did for my sight reading was come back to jalmus and work slowly and deliberately daily
Thank you for the truth 🙏. It's a life long process
These tips are great for sight reading, although I don't think it'll help you learn faster. Thi is a process which you'll have to do with every single piece. I learned sight reading by first just looking at the sheet music while listening to it one time, and then just start playing. This way you'll link the notes to the sound you've just heard, and you'll learn the notes individually instead of in pairs, which I think helps more, since this way you'll be able to see what note on the sheet music is on the piano faster, which will make sight reading much easier
Oh this is great advice. Your videos are great to watch.
A - outline in red, B- outline in orange... keep going in a rainbow fashion all the way to G that you leave as black. For Black keys you add a dot of glitter along with the color. As long as you memorize what the keys look like on the piano you're set.
This is a brilliant lesson! Thank you.
Thank you so much for all the tips and knowledge you give to us. Oh way you make the t-shirts with the pianote.
Oh how I wish you were my piano teacher here in New York 😎
Thankyou ma'am from India
you have demonstrated very cool techniques💚💚💚👍
Definitely a hard discipline to get into, but very rewarding once you get used to it. It opens so many doors!
Thanks for these tips 😁
Sight reading comes more natural to me, I’ve only been learning for like 6 months and I feel very stuck right now, also I have my first piano recital in a month :)
Thank you so much for this helpful video! :D
BRAVA! I especially like the chord recognition idea. Excellent tips, thank you. I ask my students to flip pages in a music book and play a few measures each day. They are beginning to enjoy the process. 👏
I love your lesson
Love your teaching style! Subscribed!
Thanks for this video
Take care
Keep sharing
Very good tips
Thanks Lisa!
OmG! Your way to teach us is so great!
Thank you!,
P.D: You remember me Little bit to Melissa Joan Heart
Great tips. Thanks Lisa. I loved how excited you got during this video.
I just started and I cannot play a single note at all, but your video was helping
Tanks for the tips. ....it really helped me thank you Lisa.....
Love you...
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Thank you so much!!!