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LittleRusty Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 8:35 pm Post subject: Rhythm site reading books/studies |
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Many years back, when in college, I was a pretty good sight reader. Now after many years of voice focus and more years of comeback on the trumpet I want to rebuild my sight reading skills.
Specifically I want to focus on learning rock, jazz and contemporary Christian licks so I don’t have to work so hard.
Clarke studies sort of does this for more traditional music and I would like to find an equivalent to add to my practice.
Any recommendations? |
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Don Herman rev2 'Chicago School' Forum Moderator
Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 8951 Location: Monument, CO
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2017 7:57 am Post subject: |
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Our own Rich Willey ("BeBoppinFool") has some nice books, mostly jazz-oriented but lots of good material. https://www.boptism.com/
HTH - Don _________________ "After silence, that which best expresses the inexpressible, is music" - Aldous Huxley |
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razeontherock Heavyweight Member
Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 10609 Location: The land of GR and Getzen
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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I would point out that Rich puts out the Concone book(s) Doc always recommend, and those are GREAT for sight reading rhythms, as well as developing fundamentals with even tone into the upper register. I mention this because they're not jazz oriented so you'd likely overlook them. Cheap enough to add to the order and add nothing to shipping.
Rich's books are unbeatable value. |
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plannez New Member
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Turkle Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 6:59 am Post subject: |
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That "Sight Reading Factory" is awesome, never seen that before. Thanks for posting. _________________ Yamaha 8310Z trumpet
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Didymus Veteran Member
Joined: 19 Dec 2017 Posts: 306 Location: Minneapolis, MN
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 12:17 pm Post subject: I Second The Sentiment |
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Turkle wrote: |
That "Sight Reading Factory" is awesome, never seen that before. Thanks for posting. |
I agree. I have been looking for various ways to improve my sightreading during my comeback. Thx for sharing. |
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iiipopes Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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In the meantime of getting some of the method books: play everything. Sightread a hymnal. Sightread piano music. Sightread other treble clef instruments, whether concert pitch or transposed, all the way from oboe to saxophone parts, and the soprano and alto parts of classical music choral arrangements.
Play everything. Start a little slower than the actual tempo marking so you can think ahead. The key is to be fluid and not make mistakes. The technique is not embouchure or fingers or other physical fundamentals, but instead getting the eyes and brain coordinated.
In my high school band, we were not seated according to "tryouts," but by our score on the Watkins-Farnum sight reading test. I scored over 100 on the test, and was still second chair. In my high school choir, we got "I" ratings at state because we started every rehearsal with 10 minutes of sightreading obscure hymns. One year, the judge of sightreading actually stopped us, said we had our "I" rating, and would we sing it again so he would know how it was supposed to go for the rest of his day judging!
Play everything. Start looking for common keys and scales, common or repeating motifs, the contour of a phrase, and start anticipating where everything will go, keeping in mind items such as evaded cadences, augmentations, diminutions, etc., that are there as traps for the unwary. Sing the parts as well as play them. Buzz them on the mouthpiece alone without the horn.
All these techniques make a player a better sight reader. _________________ King Super 20 Trumpet; Sov 921 Cornet
Bach cornet modded to be a 181L clone
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LittleRusty Heavyweight Member
Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 12647 Location: Gardena, Ca
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 11:24 am Post subject: |
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iiipopes wrote: | In the meantime of getting some of the method books: play everything. Sightread a hymnal. Sightread piano music. Sightread other treble clef instruments, whether concert pitch or transposed, all the way from oboe to saxophone parts, and the soprano and alto parts of classical music choral arrangements.
Play everything. Start a little slower than the actual tempo marking so you can think ahead. The key is to be fluid and not make mistakes. The technique is not embouchure or fingers or other physical fundamentals, but instead getting the eyes and brain coordinated.
In my high school band, we were not seated according to "tryouts," but by our score on the Watkins-Farnum sight reading test. I scored over 100 on the test, and was still second chair. In my high school choir, we got "I" ratings at state because we started every rehearsal with 10 minutes of sightreading obscure hymns. One year, the judge of sightreading actually stopped us, said we had our "I" rating, and would we sing it again so he would know how it was supposed to go for the rest of his day judging!
Play everything. Start looking for common keys and scales, common or repeating motifs, the contour of a phrase, and start anticipating where everything will go, keeping in mind items such as evaded cadences, augmentations, diminutions, etc., that are there as traps for the unwary. Sing the parts as well as play them. Buzz them on the mouthpiece alone without the horn.
All these techniques make a player a better sight reader. |
Good advice in general, but as a vocal singer and a long time worship leader, I don't have challenges with any of the hymns or their rhythms. |
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ButchA Veteran Member
Joined: 09 Dec 2008 Posts: 139 Location: Richmond, VA
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 2:28 am Post subject: |
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Wow, I have never seen that Sight Reading Factory website before. Very cool! Thanks for posting the link! I'll check out the other links too. _________________ 1967 Holton Collegiate Trumpet --> my grade school band trumpet. I just can't part with it!
1975 Olds Ambassador Cornet --> my new/used eBay special. Sounds great!
2018 Regiment WI-800 Bugle --> my inexpensive Chinese made bugle from Amazon. |
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OstinSparks New Member
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Thanks for sharing the resources for learning, especially for that BeBoppin Fool site. That will be very helpful for my college study and skills improvement.
By the way, I also used mysterytomastery for learning basics, but I think that almost everybody heard about this resource. _________________ In search of assistance with my college project at https://writemyessayonline.com/do-my-homework.html I found the writer, who improved my results |
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