

What space and line notes are affected by the key signature?Ī. Understanding Time Signatures: How many beats or counts per measure? What does the numerator and denominator of the time signature really mean in relationship to what is the variable and the constant of the rhythm?ī.

Overall Class Goals: Comparing sight reading decoding strategies of the goals below and how all the parts work together in reading music at first sight.Ī. The strategies taught will help you to read music at first sight without struggling with note value, timing, and rhythm, etc.Ĭlass Materials: Other than pencil and paper to take notes down, no other materials are needed. This course is designed to help any musician at any level of sight-reading to learn and/or improve their sight-readings skills by understanding and applying strategies in the art of sight-reading. The reason why you are struggling is because you don't yet understand how all the moving notational parts work together to make one beautiful symphony. Have you been struggling with reading music at first sight? Do you wish you could sight-read the musical piece to the very end without stopping and figuring out note value, timing, and rhythm? Have you been struggling to break down and understand the constant and the variable of note values in sight-reading music, especially when you've never even heard the music before?
