Reading Music vs. Sight-Reading on Guitar: What's the Difference?

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To play classical guitar well, you need to know:
* how to hold and touch the guitar - form and positioning
* how to move your fingers and hands - efficient, clean, and fluid
* how to learn pieces - reading music, understanding what you see, ingraining, polishing
* how to craft the music so it is beautiful - swells and fades, rhythm, touch
* how to practice so all these skills improve over time and don't go away
At the root of beautiful playing is a solid technique (aka “the way your hands move”). You may have beautiful music in your head, but if your hands can't play it, it won't come out of the guitar.
But bad technique puts a limit on your playing. Speed, tone quality, and control can suffer.
Good technique gets stronger and more instinctive with every practice. It forms the bedrock foundation for your music.
And you may want to understand music so you learn it more easily and it makes more sense. This can help you avoid the excess frustration and dismay that comes with shoddy practice and prolonged confusion.
But playing the notes is not enough. Like an actor bring words to life, we breathe life into our pieces.
And we can do this in an organized way, day in and day out, reliably. Great musicians can play wonderfully in any mood. They do not rely on emotions. Instead, they create music that affects our emotions. This is a trained skill, not an inborn talent.
Playing classical guitar is a long-term study. It's something we do in our homes as part of our days. We play for ourselves, for the quality it adds to life. We may enjoy playing guitar for others, but most of the time we are alone with our work.
There are methods and formulas for great practice. We can use our time well so that see more progress.
We can fix the problems and erase the mistakes. And we can enjoy conquering the plentiful challenges that classical guitar music offers.
If you plan to play classical guitar for any length of time, it is worth it to get help. It's not something we can do on our own, like folk music.
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@1thingiscertain304 Ай бұрын

Yes, to be a fluent, fluid sight reader on any instrument, you have to have started young - just like reading in a language. But, you can get better and better at it by doing some everyday. I once sat down to dinner with a delectable Russina woman who had just played a concert well (piano) and she had used the score. I asked her when she had learned to read music and she said she could not remeber ever learning to read music! I asked her when did she first see the score for the music she played that evening. She said, "Yeterday!" Yikes!

@kibadachi11 Ай бұрын

Thank you for your enthusiasm. Learning Alone is a bit frustrating, but you vive us very godd advises and after that, I run to mu guitar

@ionageman Ай бұрын

Love your work … I wanted to say so much more , but you say it better than I ever could .

@komatikvengeance8811 Ай бұрын

Let it be known that I was here first !

@doonguitarlessons Ай бұрын

That makes so much sense now that I have been practicing learning to read music. I guess with better reading skills sight reading becomes so much easier and right now I am doing grade 5 pieces. The only challenge is when there are notes ahead of the first three frets or is it just me?

@DarrinDarwinacious Ай бұрын

Thank you for this video, it's very well done.

@dewindoethdwl2798 Ай бұрын

Please, no sniggering; I’m a saxophonist and have been doing evil things to music for decades. Now I’m a little more grownup I’m endeavouring to learn the guitar. It’s reminding me of my early sax blowing days. Music reading is an insight to being an infant learning to read. Initially you get the letter sounds out, then simple words are constructed but more complex ones are almost spelled or felt out, eventually you don’t read the whole word to know what you’ve read. With time you get fluent in applying the reading and that’s when you get asked at school to do a reading you’ve not seen before; sight reading. With experience you can sight-read more complex passages and even inject some passion or meaning to the tone of voice. Same with music, sight reading is the pinnacle of music reading. The really good get the piece played as if practiced but it’s really reflecting experience and no doubt, a degree of talent. The rest of us get a good mental workout that does lead to more successes as time passes.

@DarrinDarwinacious Ай бұрын

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