DANIEL NISTICO
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Sight Reading Follow Up:

Date: Friday January 22nd, 9am AEDT
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Schedule 

Week 1: Materials and Processes (December 1st): Zoom Link
Week 2: Preparation before reading (December 8th): Zoom Link
Week 3: Fretboard, charts and studies (December 15th): Zoom Link
Week 4: Musicianship (December 22nd): Zoom Link


Week 1: Materials and Processes
  • Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced reading materials 
  • Reading notes (step-wise, triad outline, intervals, ledger lines)
  • Fretting notes (positions and fingerings and references). Visualization
  • Rhythms: Put into groups and verbalize (use words). 

Tasks:
  • Study the music, identifying step-wise motion, triad leaps and repetition of material 
  • Write in the fingerings and positions that you are playing in at all times 
  • Identify any rhythmic patterns that recur throughout the piece/s. Practice them on a scale. 


Week 2: Preparation before reading
  • Form and expectation (keys and notes)
  • Music’s building blocks
  • Scale/Range (identify key/s)
  • Intervals
  • Primary Chords and chunking 

Tasks:
  • Identify the form of the piece/s
  • Identify scales and chords (building blocks) that occur in the piece/s
  • Identify any 3rds, 6ths, 8vs or 10ths 
  • Practice the scales and primary chords of the key/s your piece/s is in


Week 3: Learn the entire fretboard
  • Exercises in positions 
  • Reading the same passage in different positions (use charts to help)
  • Practice playing the entire fretboard in different ways - solfege, letters (horizontal and vertical)
  • Moveable building blocks (move shapes from pieces)

Tasks:
  • Record yourself playing one of the position studies
  • Write out a passage in two different positions 
  • Record yourself playing through the entire fretboard 
  • Record yourself playing the moveable building blocks (triads, intervals or V-I)


Week 4: Musicianship 
  • Sing the melody and intervals above bass
  • Play rhythm on open string
  • Carulli’s method
  • Sing one part and play another (or chord progression)​

Tasks: 
  • Record yourself singing/humming a melody
  • Record yourself playing the rhythm on an open string
  • Choose one exercise from Carulli’s method book to record
  • Study the chord progression of your piece and play those chords in basic form. Sing the melody over the top. 

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