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Sight reading in different keys


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For starters, it's not the different keys that's the biggest issue. Do you know your fingerboard well? I mean, REALLY well?
check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0sS0hhfezQ

It's crucial that you know your axe very well in order to read.
Actually, pitches and keys aint the hardest the thing in reading - it's rhythms (groupings of 16th notes, syncopations) - that's what you want to look for.

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Reading Rhythms.....highly recommended

[url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Musicians-Institute-Encyclopedia-Workbook-Instruments/dp/0793573793/ref=sr_1_sc_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1349371424&sr=1-2-spell"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Musicians-Institute-Encyclopedia-Workbook-Instruments/dp/0793573793/ref=sr_1_sc_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1349371424&sr=1-2-spell[/url]

Ref: reading in different keys. I found the Bach Cello Suites usedful for this as they cover a lot of keys and include tenor clef and treble clef. I should be able to think of something else but I can't think at the moment (guests due any minute etc)

[url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Faber-Music-Bach-Cello-Suites/dp/B003HKDZ02/ref=sr_1_14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1349371585&sr=1-14"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Faber-Music-Bach-Cello-Suites/dp/B003HKDZ02/ref=sr_1_14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1349371585&sr=1-14[/url]

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[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1349371654' post='1825450']
Reading Rhythms.....highly recommended

[url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Musicians-Institute-Encyclopedia-Workbook-Instruments/dp/0793573793/ref=sr_1_sc_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1349371424&sr=1-2-spell"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Musicians-Institute-Encyclopedia-Workbook-Instruments/dp/0793573793/ref=sr_1_sc_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1349371424&sr=1-2-spell[/url]

Ref: reading in different keys. I found the Bach Cello Suites usedful for this as they cover a lot of keys and include tenor clef and treble clef. I should be able to think of something else but I can't think at the moment (guests due any minute etc)

[url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Faber-Music-Bach-Cello-Suites/dp/B003HKDZ02/ref=sr_1_14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1349371585&sr=1-14"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Faber-Music-Bach-Cello-Suites/dp/B003HKDZ02/ref=sr_1_14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1349371585&sr=1-14[/url]
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+1 for the rhythm encyclopaedia, that'll keep you going for years.

Cheers for the recommendation on the Bach cello suites. I'll give that a look.

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[quote name='Faithless' timestamp='1349357859' post='1825240']
For starters, it's not the different keys that's the biggest issue. Do you know your fingerboard well? I mean, REALLY well?

It's crucial that you know your axe very well in order to read.
Actually, pitches and keys aint the hardest the thing in reading - it's rhythms (groupings of 16th notes, syncopations) - that's what you want to look for.
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^^^ What he said about rhythms - the trick is to learn to recognise patterns rather than trying to read note by note.

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[quote name='davey_one_visits' timestamp='1349348337' post='1824992']
Is anyone aware if such a resource exists?
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Yes, the Major's boot camp. It's very, very good and will cost you nothing, thanks to the Major's generosity to this forum. It beats the pants of the commercial books I have bought on the subject.
http://basschat.co.uk/topic/74284-the-majors-bass-boot-camp-session-index-1-36/

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