Read Music FAST!

There are different approached but it all comes down to memorizing the lines and spaces.

One way is the FACE and Every Good Boy approach, but there is an alternate approach where you learn some key lines and spaces and recognize other from their relationship (how close or far away) to the key lines and spaces. This latter method is the one taught in this online course:

https://www.udemy.com/course/sight-reading/

I would check out "Benedict Wentenras" videos on reading sheet music. He's a very good teacher and his videos are very clear and easy to follow. Helped me a great deal when it came to sheet music.

https://www.udemy.com/course/sight-reading/

I have been playing for the last 14 months. I play roughly 30 minutes a day, consistently.

When I started I took the sight reading course on Udemy that u/Keselo recommended.

Then I started applying it to as many songs as I could. I have worked through RCMs Prep B, Grade 1 and Grade 2. Playing mostly by sight. As I got exposed to more and more music, I started realizing the common mistakes I make, and being exposed to reading different notes:

• Mixing up the lines between Bass / Treble happened a lot at first, but it rarely happens now
• Getting exposed to ledger line values beyond the second ledger C above the treble / below the bass
• Reading Intervals fast
• Reading Chords fast

You'll hear from most around here that if you want to practice sight reading, pick up a book below your skill level, and start... reading. I couldn't image learning it by drills. I'd much rather play piano.

THANKS! My mission is clear as day now! Woohoo.

I'm somewhat familiar with ties. Before I started working through Mikrokosmos' book, I worked through Read Music Fast and Read Music Fast Part 2 which I cannot speak more highly of. Amazing courses. Quite interesting how just 1.5 weeks ago if you asked me to play a minor, major, flat, or sharp scale on the piano I'd look at you very confused. Although it takes me a minute to think about where my fingers go when playing a scale, I can play decently consistent. Piano is so fun!

I started with an acoustic guitar. Quit. Then the mandolin. Quit. Piano. Quit. Sax. Quit. Now I am back with the piano and approaching it differently so I dont quit. So far my method is working. There are many factors that go into why I quit but one of the bigger reasons is trying to find the instrument that I feel will be the best tool for expressing myself once I learn the fundamentals. Anyways sorry I got carried away over here, thanks again for your explanation!

The abbreviations are not the best method! I struggled with the same thing when I was starting out not that long ago. I recommend this course on udemy for a much better method of learning the notes.

This: https://www.udemy.com/course/sight-reading/

I found this udemy course very helpful.

Hello. Is this really helpful?

https://www.udemy.com/course/sight-reading/

It’s my first time trying to buy courses online. This one have a lot of positive reviews. I wanted to self teach myself

https://www.udemy.com/course/sight-reading/ this is part 1/3. Part 3 being optional, but i did it anyways.