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Our local music school (classical) has refused to do them. Any syllabus that can award a Grade 8 without compulsory sight reading is inadequate.
When I looked into it I discovered that I could pass the Trinity Rock School Grade 7 without study.
Yet when I play with the local orchestra I'm well out of depth at Grade 3 sight reading.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Both Trinity and Rockschool exams don't require sightreading for their electric guitar exams (at any grade). When other exams do have sightreading (ie other instruments), basically the requirement is sightreading 2 grades lower than the exam being undertaken. (G1 and G2 have other instrument-specific guidelines which simplify the requirement here).
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
I would have found the material very useful when working stuff out for myself many many years ago.
But these days I get given sheet music 2 mins before I'm supposed to rehearse it.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
which is why i've thought perhaps piano lessons might be of benefit as I will learn that element away from the guitar. It might in fact be quicker?
In an ideal world you'll be able to find a guitar teacher who reads music, and can teach you to read music.
I know its a bit like teaching someone to swim by pushing them into the sea, but have you tried to read music on guitar? Do you know the basics (like, what the symbols mean, what note the E string is on the treble clef, or to put it another way where written middle C is on the guitar, etc)?
I definitely think it's worth getting into notated music, even if that doesn't stretch to full-on sight reading. I do a lot of transcribing. Also, I used to notate arrangements (including brass parts) for a covers band I played in a while back.
At best I would class my reading as 'fairly quick deciphering' rather than 'sight reading'.
“Theory is something that is written down after the music has been made so we can explain it to others”– Levi Clay
Keep lots of sharp pencils. So when the brass and wind are trying to tune up - write some notes on the paper. Including the note names if you have to!
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
I'm not learning piano and there are no transposing issues. The only difference is how the note is generated. They are not lessons about technique (I'm not changing that after 27 years playing), only about playing the right note for the right duration and recognising the other written instructions.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Get yourself a cheap classical and take a couple of lessons, if you dont like it then just ditch it.
Good at sight reading on a piano does not equal good at sight reading on guitar.
I've never mentioned not wanting to learn classical guitar. Its certainly an option. I doubt I would otherwise ever play classical guitar however, whereas I would potentially play some piano as it would fit in with my wider musical plans. You make a fair point regards sight reading on piano versus guitar.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.