Sightread Like A Pro

$197.00

Sightread like a Pro -  get past the page and into the MUSIC, fast.

Is this you?

Even though you have been playing for a long time, you still find yourself making silly mistakes when you read - double- or half-timing, forgetting accidentals - and you get lost when it seems like all around you people are effortlessly proceeding through the piece and making music. You are always nervous when you are reading because you don’t know when something bad will happen. And it’s so easy for you to lose the sense of where you are and what is happening. It feels hopeless. You can’t get back on because you have no idea where ANYONE is. You freeze, or you guess, or you mentally beat yourself up and say horrid things. 

Even though you have prepared your part, you aren’t sure what it’s going to sound like before you play.  It doesn’t feel effortless to visualize phrases and tunes.  And the most frustrating part is that you KNOW how to do this!  You’ve been taught this before.  You know the rhythms and the notes, and you can play your instrument.  So what is it that keeps HAPPENING? 

This doesn’t have to happen.  When you read like a pro, you read fluently and with direction. You always have a grasp of where you are in the beat, in the measure, in the phrase - EVEN if you play a wrong note or a wrong rhythm, which everyone does from time to time.  You don’t get derailed by mistakes because you know what you are SAYING. And even if it is your very first time seeing the music, you can sound like you’ve prepared. 

Sightread like a Pro -  get past the page and into the MUSIC, fast.

Is this you?

Even though you have been playing for a long time, you still find yourself making silly mistakes when you read - double- or half-timing, forgetting accidentals - and you get lost when it seems like all around you people are effortlessly proceeding through the piece and making music. You are always nervous when you are reading because you don’t know when something bad will happen. And it’s so easy for you to lose the sense of where you are and what is happening. It feels hopeless. You can’t get back on because you have no idea where ANYONE is. You freeze, or you guess, or you mentally beat yourself up and say horrid things. 

Even though you have prepared your part, you aren’t sure what it’s going to sound like before you play.  It doesn’t feel effortless to visualize phrases and tunes.  And the most frustrating part is that you KNOW how to do this!  You’ve been taught this before.  You know the rhythms and the notes, and you can play your instrument.  So what is it that keeps HAPPENING? 

This doesn’t have to happen.  When you read like a pro, you read fluently and with direction. You always have a grasp of where you are in the beat, in the measure, in the phrase - EVEN if you play a wrong note or a wrong rhythm, which everyone does from time to time.  You don’t get derailed by mistakes because you know what you are SAYING. And even if it is your very first time seeing the music, you can sound like you’ve prepared. 

In this 5 hour pre-recorded class, you’ll explore:

Meter and how Dr. Seuss can be your best friend

  • Visual Grammar - an essential understanding that you can practice OFF your instrument

  • Rhythm - twos and threes and fours, oh my!

  • Internalized note reading

  • Finger memory for keys and chords

  • Playing the SHAPE instead of the notes

  • Seeing patterns

  • Phrase structure and how to sound musical the FIRST time through

  • Stepping stones - notes, intervals, and motives

  • Cadences - where the MUSIC rests and so can you

  • How to practice this skill

  • Why some pieces are harder to read than others and why that’s NOT YOUR FAULT

You’ll leave the program with a deeper understanding of musical structure, a set of frameworks for approaching a piece of music, and clarity on your own tendencies, strengths, and weaknesses around this important skill set. When you make mistakes you’ll KNOW what they are so you won’t have to repeat them.