The key to reading Sheet Music faster!

Is it your goal to make reading sheet music feel like second nature?
In this video, Christy-Lyn shares a few secrets about how you can read sheet music faster.

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[kathilisi]

I agree completely! Yes, you should learn the note names to be able to identify them individually, but you don't read them individually when playing. Recognising intervals and common phrase shapes (and rhythmic patterns) is so much faster! Great advice.

[emblamiriam]

This is ever so helpful!! I'm the type of player you mentioned, who usually only learns challenging pieces from sheet music, and then I memorise it so I don't even use the sheet music anymore. It's a good thing I still have my beginner books laying about - they'll be great for sheet reading practice! Thank you 🙏🏻✨

[hk]

I play the piano but I found your video helpful, thanks! It is true you have to change to the right sight reading mindset. When I’m too conscious about every little detail, I find it goes much less smoothly. Another tip I got from a different video is: when you run into a chord and you’re not sure you’re going to land on all the right notes, just play one or two notes of the chord but keep playing non stop!

[LMc-lh]

5:05, "take *simple* pieces..." I was recently listening to Dr. Stephen Krashen talk about language acquisition, stressing interest-led "comprehensible input, " and I wondered if that would apply to music. And here it is - it does!

[divinesoulcenter]

Yes, learning the intervals vs where they are...HUGE! I’m not there yet, but know it would make a huge difference!

[yanruan]

YES！would be amazing if you can have a sight reading traing course with daily practice and learning materials about it. Beside intervals, I think a lot times a little understanding on chords would also be helpful since those chord progressions are similar to “vocabulary” in our language :)

[lynpops]

Thank you so much for your videos. You have so much enthusiasm that it makes you want to practice. The harp is such a beautiful instrument, yet difficult to play

[martineautefort]

Thanks for your great tips. I have been playing the harp for a year, so it is not easy for me but I find your videos very helpful. Thanks again.a big hug from France.🤗

[DianaSchneider]

Thank you for this video! Yes a course would be very helpful. I still write out letters and memorize songs. Oftentimes, I am singing the letters silently to myself with the tune. 🤭

[carolinedgrimm]

Really helpful. Thank you. I'd love to take a course on reading music. I'm pretty solid on the G-clef, but the bass clef is

[auroraborealis]

I learned to play the violin as a child. Then the piano. I’m playing around with the mandolin, guitar and harp.

For some reason I play while visualizing the violin. It makes no sense at all, but it works

[Jane-dmng]

Thank you for this. I appreciate any help to be a better harp player. May I also add, I have difficulty with placing ahead. I seem to place as I am playing along instead of placing the whole bracket on the overlapping brackets. Would appreciate a course on the sheet music reading as well as any suggestions to help with that too. Thank you so much. Have a wonderful Christmas ❤

[lincorrie]

Very, very helpful. Thank you so much. X

[annabruce]

I know I stepped away from the heart for a while because I was frustrated not being able to read the music as fluently as I thought I should be able to. I had a friend who is a music teacher for the public school system and I picked up the recorder. What I quickly realized is that once I actually identified the notes as you mentioned identifying the letters and word I could read music in my mind knew exactly which fingering I needed to play the music. My mind not only helping me with the fingering but in my mind also could identify the note. I'm going to go back to the harp which means I'm going to be starting a little bit back at the beginning. But I'm hoping by playing the note identifying it saying it will do a similar thing as it did for the recorder. When I first took up the harp I was just memorizing fingerings and once I had the peace memorized I didn't look at the music any further. Thanks for the video. I'm hoping it's not going to be too painful for me to get back to playing my harp.

[susanmcmanus]

Perfect! As a piano teacher I would always pull out easier pieces for sight- reading as part of their lessons.

[marx]

Oh gosh i am guilty of writing the notes too! I will try this! Thank you❤️

[dannielsen]

Love the video and thank you for sharing, this will definitely help on my journey. Your the best!!!

[jenborn]

Yes! Would have to have a course on reading music 😊 Because I played the flute and usually in the upper register, I even have trouble identifying notes on the treble clef after B 😬
I know it’s laziness and practice will help, just impatient 😉
Thanks Christy Lyn! 🤍

[CarolineWeharp]

Thank you for the great advice Christy-Lyn, this will be so exciting to have a go. Have a lovely Christmas break. 💚

[kickasscorm]

Hahaha. Loved the sound effects (dog segment). Lol. Amazing video. This has helped. I need to spend more time with sheet reading music. Thank you so much Christy-Lyn