HOW to sight read (piano)?

[gossamer]

I'm not sure if this will help, as I've been told what I do is not normal, but when I see music, I hear it, as it should sound, in my head. (obviously there are limits to that but yeah.)
Then, when I actually play it, I roughly know what it sounds like, and then the rest is down to sight-reading... and faking

two 3/4 in year 10, but only one 3/4 in year 11. . . how unique

^^" We're only allowed one 3/4 in Year 11, unless the second is methods.... but I'm auditing uni maths next year

[carolynt]

Sight reading LH was always a bit tedious for me. I just imagined the LH stave the 'transposed right hand'. I guess, like all things, it takes practice to memorise which note is which.

There are many techniques with which you can attempt to approach sight reading.
1. Do the left hand until bar 4-5, then do the right hand to the same spot and later put it together. It is integral to be able to master this technique before attempting both hands.

[gossamer]

That's called perfect pitch

Y'know what's weird? When I get to the higher octaves, C and G, and E and B begin sounding the same to me.

Yes, I know. It can be a pain sometimes.

Really? How high in the higher octaves?

[ninwa]

That's called perfect pitch

Y'know what's weird? When I get to the higher octaves, C and G, and E and B begin sounding the same to me.

Yes, I know. It can be a pain sometimes.

What does music look in your mind? For me, each is associated with a colour and that's how I identify notes.

[gossamer]

That's called perfect pitch

Y'know what's weird? When I get to the higher octaves, C and G, and E and B begin sounding the same to me.

Yes, I know. It can be a pain sometimes.

What does music look in your mind? For me, each is associated with a colour and that's how I identify notes.

It doesn't look like anything, I just hear it. :/ I just .. identify it by its pitch.

[carolynt]

That's called perfect pitch

Y'know what's weird? When I get to the higher octaves, C and G, and E and B begin sounding the same to me.

Yes, I know. It can be a pain sometimes.

What does music look in your mind? For me, each is associated with a colour and that's how I identify notes.

I never thought of it in that way. I guess that's a good approach too. I'm more of a pitch person, myself.

[gossamer]

That's called perfect pitch

Y'know what's weird? When I get to the higher octaves, C and G, and E and B begin sounding the same to me.

Yes, I know. It can be a pain sometimes.

What does music look in your mind? For me, each is associated with a colour and that's how I identify notes.

I'm curious as how it would work, since my mind doesn't work that way.
Is it something that you've acquired over time, or have you always done that? I do recall at some point last year or the year before, I was flicking through a music magazine and I recall reading about someone who also saw notes as colours, and different pitchings of a note would be a different shade or something like that. It was an odd form of perfect pitch.
Anyway, I think he was born being able to do that.

[Cianyx]

Solfege. A 'C' note would sound like 'Do' to me. That's why I can sometimes confuse it with G (So). Likewise with E (Me) and B (Ti). So really, if I listen to a piece, it sounds like a conversation to me.

[gossamer]

Solfege. A 'C' note would sound like 'Do' to me. That's why I can sometimes confuse it with G (So). Likewise with E (Me) and B (Ti). So really, if I listen to a piece, it sounds like a conversation to me.

Ahh I see. I think I kind of do the same, but only because that was how I was taught the notes when I first started learning. To me, there is a clear distinction between all the notes.

Do you ever use movable do solfege? Or just the fixed do?

[Cianyx]

Fixed. Then I put random accents to signify the pitch or some shit. I think that's why I can't sing to save my life

[carolynt]

Solfege. A 'C' note would sound like 'Do' to me. That's why I can sometimes confuse it with G (So). Likewise with E (Me) and B (Ti). So really, if I listen to a piece, it sounds like a conversation to me.

That do, re, mi never worked for me! Just because I thought I would be smart and say to myself "well do can be 'D' since it is just a syllable". Well, that did not really help me.

But I have my standard or 'zero' at middle 'C' and then go from there.

[gossamer]

Fixed. Then I put random accents to signify the pitch or some shit. I think that's why I can't sing to save my life

haha okay You probably sing better than you think you can
Ever tried using the movable do solfege? My choir teacher uses it all the time to teach people to sing awkward interval jumps (which are not so awkward if you think of it in another key)

Solfege. A 'C' note would sound like 'Do' to me. That's why I can sometimes confuse it with G (So). Likewise with E (Me) and B (Ti). So really, if I listen to a piece, it sounds like a conversation to me.

That do, re, mi never worked for me! Just because I thought I would be smart and say to myself "well do can be 'D' since it is just a syllable". Well, that did not really help me.

But I have my standard or 'zero' at middle 'C' and then go from there.

hmmm. So if you were say, singing something, would you sing a C and then work out the starting note from there, or something?

[AzureBlue]

Yeah, perfect pitch makes melodic aural easy for me, but I tend to get owned by the rhythmic dictation.

[ninwa]

I'm curious as how it would work, since my mind doesn't work that way.
Is it something that you've acquired over time, or have you always done that? I do recall at some point last year or the year before, I was flicking through a music magazine and I recall reading about someone who also saw notes as colours, and different pitchings of a note would be a different shade or something like that. It was an odd form of perfect pitch.
Anyway, I think he was born being able to do that.

Oh... I honestly thought all perfect pitch was something like that.

It's always been like that for me, though interestingly, the colours for each note have changed subtly over time.

When I did VCE music melodic dictation was just a matter of transcribing colours into notes. I also have different colours for different chords. I suppose it also relates to feelings. A diminished triad is a threatening sort of red, for example, because I guess it sounds very ominous. Different inversions are different shades of the same colour.

Yeah like all perfect pitch, you're born with it.

[carolynt]

Fixed. Then I put random accents to signify the pitch or some shit. I think that's why I can't sing to save my life

haha okay You probably sing better than you think you can
Ever tried using the movable do solfege? My choir teacher uses it all the time to teach people to sing awkward interval jumps (which are not so awkward if you think of it in another key)

Solfege. A 'C' note would sound like 'Do' to me. That's why I can sometimes confuse it with G (So). Likewise with E (Me) and B (Ti). So really, if I listen to a piece, it sounds like a conversation to me.

That do, re, mi never worked for me! Just because I thought I would be smart and say to myself "well do can be 'D' since it is just a syllable". Well, that did not really help me.

But I have my standard or 'zero' at middle 'C' and then go from there.

hmmm. So if you were say, singing something, would you sing a C and then work out the starting note from there, or something?

Initially, yes - when I started out. Then I remembered different notes after practice. I wasn't really born with music ability, it's just perseverence.