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Thread: Tips, tricks, and things to do to improve sight reading music?

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    Tips, tricks, and things to do to improve sight reading music?

    Community band got put on hold back in Mar. 2020 and hasn't resumed since. I've recently joined up a big band express group that's a subset of that (many folks from there) consisting of a few brass members (roughly 7 of them), and one guy on guitar, another on piano. It's been nice to play in an ensemble again, but sight reading has taken a fall (mind you, not that that was great before). 60 bpm (beats per minute), I could follow OK. Pieces at 120 bpm.. I just froze up. I got bogged down by "doing the math" in subdividing many of the rhythms (ie. flurries of dotted eighth and 16th notes) when when better players, it'd be more natural

    Anything specific to add other than "practice makes perfect"? For the time being, I've been seeing if I can play random pieces on YouTube with sheet music, and MuseScore (where it plays the selection for you), and then listening to playback to see how close I really was.

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    Here is a place to start:

    http://www.dwerden.com/forum/entry.p...ght-Read-Music

    And here is a video I did with advice/techniques:

    https://youtu.be/x0tqpsGA1zA
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