Timeline for Is it recommended to practice sight reading by "feeling out the music" instead of counting
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| Mar 3, 2017 at 12:29 | comment | added | Dave Tweed | Addressing your parenthetical comment: " (for example, taking in a breath whenever I come across an eighth note rest)" -- This is a VERY bad habit to get into. It will invariably make you late at faster tempos. Instead, learn to make the rest part of the rhythm pattern, just like a note of the same length, but one that doesn't make any sound. | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 1:43 | history | protected | Dom♦ | ||
| Mar 3, 2017 at 1:32 | answer | added | Silas Palmer | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 23:54 | vote | accept | Mazer Rackham | ||
| Mar 2, 2017 at 23:49 | history | edited | Mazer Rackham | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 2, 2017 at 19:08 | answer | added | BryanE | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 17:54 | comment | added | EvSunWoodard | Not enough for an answer, but I have had several situations in my upper level college choir (Emmy Award winning), where every person in the choir assumed the rhythm when practicing and had to fix it later in group practice. It took weeks to fix what would have taken a week or less to learn properly. But since everyone had used their intuition, they got the wrong rhythm stuck in their head. Moral: Always count, no matter how good you get, when you are sight reading anything. Some composers will do things that you would do differently, and suddenly your intuition is just wrong. | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 17:47 | comment | added | Kyle Strand | You may be interested in this video about how classical musicians tend to take an analytical approach (counting and "reacting") whereas jazz and other non-classical musicians "feel" rhythm: youtu.be/rEbUNDW9bDA | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 17:42 | comment | added | Kyle Strand | I'm not sure what you mean by "I'm only counting the parts that I play in." It sounds like most people here are interpreting that to mean that you're not counting rests at all, but if that were the case it seems you'd be more confused by long rests, not short ones. Also, failing to count rests seems like a pretty basic mistake, and one that you'd correct once you realize you're doing it (no offense if that's what you're actually doing--it is also a pretty common mistake). | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 15:34 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackMusic/status/837325153226850309 | ||
| Mar 2, 2017 at 12:31 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | Have you tried the standard "One-and," "One-Eee-and" , "One-ee-and-ahh" methods for tracking subdivided beats? | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 11:55 | answer | added | user37356 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 8:38 | answer | added | Tim | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 6:23 | answer | added | Нет войне | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 1:36 | answer | added | ttw | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 0:25 | answer | added | L3B | timeline score: -1 | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 0:08 | answer | added | empty | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 23:36 | answer | added | endorph | timeline score: 13 | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 23:36 | answer | added | MattPutnam | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 23:26 | answer | added | Stephen Hazel | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 23:08 | comment | added | user19146 | "... I automatically get thrown off, mostly because ..." Old joke: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this!". "Well, stop doing it then!" If you don't count correctly, then obviously you will be thrown off. So what's the real question? If it's "is counting correctly better than just guessing", the answer is pretty obvious... | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 22:21 | history | asked | Mazer Rackham | CC BY-SA 3.0 |