Then about six years off and on with various instructors through high school. I took about eight years solid with teachers. I took piano starting at five for many years.

Hi, I think there are many people out there like me who might benefit. Hence it's kind of amazing the seemingly unlimited amount of music that can be writtern under the rules of tonal music. If you did, you'd think it sounds 'wrong'. You're not gonna hear super weird chord progressions and cadences. The rules of composition can even be considered rather strict. I was taught to sight read by learning the patterns and learning to anticipate what comes next. This seems to be the complete opposite of sight reading as I know it.

Please post your own thoughts and experiences. (e) customisable as to number of notes and how they are distributed etc. (d) does not scroll or move the notes (a moving cursor is probably unavoidable but it could maybe auto-hide or something) (c) presents a full page by page of 'music' on both staves with normal bar appearance (b) is interactive with a keyboard and flags up and counts wrong notes (a) generates random patterns across both staves (with adjustable limits on how far each jump is) Personally I would like to find an app that: This is a major flaw in my opinion and the main reason I'm looking for something else. At first this seems like fun but I realise now it lacks the key element of making you move your eyes and keep track of where you are up to. Highly customisable (tempo, number of notes, key signatures etc.) Runs inside Chrome on a Windows laptop or tablet This has done me a lot of good but I am realising its limitations and looking for something better. So what is out there? I've been using the browser-based web page. I bet I'm not alone in saying that I find this really, really hard to do fast (I can do it slowly). But I'm sure a lot of adult beginners like myself also benefit from exercises that deliberately create random and un-coordinated notes / patterns, to strengthen absolute, non-relative note value recognition without 'cheating' and extrapolating from the melodic line. There is older information around but this sort of stuff changes pretty quickly.įirst let me start by saying that I fully understand that there is a need to practice sight-reading within a musical context with actual pieces. I thought I'd start a thread where people could chime in with recent, up to date experiences with sight reading training apps.

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