Sight Reading with Proper Syllabus locally

[Newbie]

Greetings all!

Just wondering if where is a good place to start for sight reading lessons. Prefer to have a fixed syllabus on how to attain proper sight reading skills and also to 'execute' songs on the guitar as well.

One of my friends recommended me Cristofori for classical guitar lessons. Will like to hear more suggestions or recommendations from fellow SOFTies for the topic mentioned above.

Thanks in advance!

PS: Not sure where to get contacts of teachers or good schools (may be hidden around ). Hope to get some help here. Cheers!

 

[robb]

Hello

If your talking about learning to sight read only, u should be able to learn it by urself. Just get a sight reading book from abrsm or trinity exam board and start from the beginning. These books are good cause the music in them dont have fingering indications which makes it harder to sight read and they are also arrange according to level.

10 minutes of sight reading each day and u'll be pretty good in no time.

Rob

 

[Newbie]

Hi Robb,

Thanks for the reply.

I mean to learn reading + playing at the same time.

 

[Newbie]

Any recommendations peeps?

 

[robb]

Any recommendations peeps?

Hi agian

I'm going 2 sign up at cristofori this weekend for classical guitar lessons. You can do the same or if u prefer to take lessons privately u can pm me, I'll give you a few contacts I've collected.

Rob

 

[soft]

I dont know if there are any fixed syllabus 'sight reading' lessons.

Think of sight reading like typing on your computer keyboard. It is like you have to read from a piece of paper and type the text into the computer. Your eyes should focus on the paper while your fingers are focused on the keypads.

You read the text, transfer the information to your fingers and type it into the computer.

So, for music, you read the score, transfer the information to your fingers and play it out on your instrument.

The more you do it, the better you become.

 

[kryptic]

A sight-reading book would do i guess, but you'd have to really practice and by that i mean everyday. It'll take a while. Or you could join a guitar ensemble! Lol, i learnt how to sight read from there.