Sunday, July 09, 2006

Sight reading woes

Usually, many of the music the double bass are written in bass clef. For the sight-reading exams, I am challenged with sight-reading scores written in tenor clef and treble clef.

What a test! It seems that the studies for playing in the higher positions have helped me to sightread in treble clef. But I am still feeling that I have a lot to catch up on sight-reading.

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In the evening, I picked up Develop Sight Reading (for all Bass clef instruments) by Gaston Dufresne, edited by Roger Voisin. It contains several studies written in tenor clef. I tried practising it, and it is certainly a challenge for the mind to sight-read entirely in tenor clef. I could only hope that it would get me to the required sight-reading standard soon enough.

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I don't know if I should be counting down to the exams. It is less than 20 days away.

3 comments:

crazycat said...

did i ever tell u i chicken out of my first exam when 2 months before the exam date and never try to take another???? and i suck big time with theory... i think u will do well on yours... u dun worry too much ok? :D

oceanskies79 said...

Ah...crazycat, to be honest, the thoughts of quitting the exams often come up my mind when things get tough. I could only coax myself that if I were to delay, it will be one entire year before I can take the exams.

But anyway, I think I still have to improve my playing...thanks for your encouragement.

oceanskies79 said...

Thanks.SA....I hope those dreams that have been eaten by the demons can still be retrieved?