I sight read this entire video in 5 minutes despite it being nearly 12 minutes long.

5:04 He thinks we didn't notice the mixed meter megalovaina.

As a cellist of nearly 9 years, who has deliberately practiced reading in advance whilst playing, I can confidently say that it works wonders. Not just for being comfortably ready for upcoming music, but also for placing unused fingers on upcoming notes in advance, allowing for smoother transitions

As a singer and pianist, solfège is one of the best things you can do. It’s an amazing learning tool and can help sight reading TREMENDOUSLY. ask your choir director or look into it! It’s sooooo. Amazing.

6:12 laughing at "fingering" being a weakness is so real lmfao

Speaking as someone who grew up using standard western notation and is now learning an alternate form (减字谱，for the 古琴) , it's really interesting to see how some of this advice (from the whole series) can apply to 减字谱，and how some or it can't. But it's a great reminder to always challenge yourself and both go back to basics and challenge yourself with new things! Thank you for this wonderful concise but thoughtful primer on sight reading! ps: if anyone reading this is curious about 减字谱 (jianzipu) or the 古琴 (guqin), I highly recommend checking it out. it's a beautiful instrument, and the writing system is fascinating. It gives you a lot of information standard notation doesn't (such as what finger to press down on what string at what place, and what finger to pluck with going what direction), but also skips some of the information standard notation considers vital (such as how long to hold each note, or even displaying them visually relative to each other), because of the way the instrument was historically taught, using a mixture of sight reading and playing by ear. pps: I'd love to see you do a series on alternate/historical musical notation! I feel like there's so much you can learn and take away from it even if at the end of the day you go back to standard, and it tells you so much about what was prioritized at the time and for that specific instrument!

I have no problem thinking about music theory as definitions, vocabulary, and RULES. Rules are a lifeline to grasp when I get stuck on a concept. This was yet another one of your well-thought-out and explained videos - thanks!

5:03 bro really sneaked in megalovania im dead 💀

this video was helpful, even though i play arguably the hardest instrument to sight read (classical guitar) just imagine consistently reading 5 and 6 note chords that, unlike piano, any given note can be played in several different positions, and you only have four fingers to finger with🙃 subscribed

Best video series ever on Sight reading

You don’t know how much I love your videos and topics you choose, that’s why I’m leaving this comment here! Sight reading intrigues me as a skill because although in music schools we’re being taught almost the same thing but all students result in different levels of sight reading proficiency Edit: 4:58 you cheeky bastard…

Having viewed all the videos posted are excellent in terms of visuals and analogies and your step-by-step approach are all packed into each video. A good range of mix (of videos) for the beginner to more advance musicians. The challenge is how to make music theory and all its strands interesting to practice so perhaps for future videos this is a subject you might cover a practical song for reference. A good example might be Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” as it sounds good and you can use all your previous videos visuals intersected to break down (and explain) rhythms, counting (e.g., the bass line). Hopefully this will encourage beginners to practice and master a song at the same time.

5:04 he tried to hide the megalovania lol

Everyone is talking about him sneaking in Megalovania, but he snuck in the lick too😂

This is wonderful, thank you! I just started sharing videos on my KZfaq channel in the hopes of making music literacy accessible to all.

5:55 "Pay negotiation" "Pretend laugh at leader's jokes"

thanks

Thank you very much. I subscribed to the srf thanks to you Just one little correction 7:17 : It's not exact: In all the countries that use fixed do (i.e the countries that don't speak english nor a germanic language) B is not Ti at all but definitively Si. Ti is a changement made in the 19th century by Sarah Glover, so it's common only in the english speaking countries which use movable do.

Solfege is one thing I don't know well! I only know the natural notes going up the scale! A friend and I were talking recently about not understanding solfege, because we've never had to use it! Both of us are planning on going into music related fields and she'll need to learn solfege at university. I'm not sure if the uni I'm applying to uses solfege or not! It's just so foreign to me!

2:13 YOOO THE 🐥 🐥 🐔 🐔 🐔 🐔 🥚 🥚

2:13 is that kris bergs “the chicken”?

THANK YOU❤❤❤ By does SRF have material for drummer? i mean not just mallet and snare. Like full drum set notation

Please, make video about improvising🙏🙏

Plz upload other parts of Rhythms

Him showing Do Re Mi... And C D E.... But..... WHY NOT SA RE GA MA... THAT'S THE ONE I LEARNED FIRST.

I find mixed meter to be an easy thing except in marching band but that aside i actually sometimes like having mixed meter

By the way, there is also numbered notation.

That moment at school band comp when you get to open the envelope.

Can someone please name all of the excerpts used in this video? I recognized some (like Can Can) but not all of them.

As a professionally trained classical musician, I realized right away that the thumbnail was a mixed Meyer Megalovania

4:07 megalovania spotted

i initially thought this was about rhythm games

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5:34 bro just licked us.

I giggled when the teacher said ‘finger your parts’

6:10 “I giggled when the teacher said ‘finger your parts’” oh hella nah

"Fixed Do" makes no sense to me. The notes already have names. They don't need two names. The whole point of naming them is to understand their underlying relationships in the first place. It's like a bunch of musicians take figured bass and decide that I is a C major chord, II is a D major chord, etc. It's added complication for no benefit while missing the point

I heard the chicken

Mixed meter? Ohhhhh. I always thought it was mitre.

Merci, an Al Gore Rhythm comment.

Everyone use « Si », it’s only the English speakers who use « Ti » ;)

SANS UNDERTALE?!?!!!???!!

... Is that megalovania on the thumbnail?

1:18 the guitarist of Ohio 💀

not important anymore.....

BLA BLA BLA BLA .... TO BE A GOOD MUSCIAN TAKES TIME, LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE.... WHY CONFUSE PEOPLE AND TRY TO SCARE THEM, IS NOT THAT DIFFICULT, IF YOU RELLY LIKE MUSIC !!!

movable do is a sin and a disgrace to nature

Bro thought he could sneak megalovania into the thumbnail