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What’s the best way to learn how to sight read?
This is my third year in band. I play percussion. For the first two years of band, I played snare drum most of the time, as well as concert bass drum, tambourine, tom-toms, timpani, wood blocks, etc. I played orchestra bells (aka bells) for just a few concerts. Now I am playing only mallets for concerts and bass drum for marching. I cannot sight read music for mallet instruments…the different notes, such as A B C D E F G, confuse me and I can’t play something without labeling the notes. I cannot just look at music and know which notes they are; I really have to think about it. How can I learn how to sight read quickly but well? I’d appreciate people who play instruments, particularly mallet instruments, to answer this question.
I would say you need to see groups of the notes like words and anchor them by identifying certain key locations quickly. For example, you see a group of 6 notes that up and drop on the last note and the highest note is in the top row of the staff (or the first note is on the first space.) So you see it as a pattern – only certain notes get played in that key. As you get better, you will see longer patterns and recognize more of them. People who don’t know all the values of the notes can still pick out the tune because they start from a beginning note and go up half tone, half tone, whole tone. and so forth.
You also probably need to spend some time on the effects (sharps and flats) of specific keys so you know the note to play from the one you see.
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