The Easy, Done for you System to Eliminate Band Sightreading Struggles.
The Maestro of Sightreading is not in San Antonio for the first time in years. Our busy schedules didn’t allow us to make the trip this year, but you can still get your hands on the best Sightreading curriculum available anywhere. If you are at TMEA, visit Pender’s, or JW Pepper onsite, or just shoot us an email at contact@sightreadingforband.com .If you order during the TMEA event, we will pay for shipping to you!
Having an organized plan is the first key to be efficient, which is is the first stepping stone to managing your time, getting more done and spending more of your time doing the things you want to do, not what you HAVE to do.
Everyone has a plan. Some are bad plans, but everyone has a plan. If your plan for sightreading feels like the photo above then you probably don’t have the best plan.
If you are moving through stacks or files of paper and constantly trying to find a piece of music to practice keyminders, or sightread a song and struggling to find something that is at the level of your players (not to advanced, or to easy then you need to evaluate your plan.
Just think of how much time this is taking you, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly.
You should add it up.
When I teach time management one of the things I teach is a time journal. You’ll be shocked at how much of it you waste.
For your band, I can tell you that the most efficient system available for sightreading instruction is the David Herring Music Sightreading Skillbuilders.
It is an organized step by step system, done for you designed note for note to cover the UIL standards.
Just get your copy and open the book, go in order and your band is ready for contest.
Check out Level One by clicking HERE
Check out Level Two by clicking HERE
Check out Level Three by clicking HERE
Bound Directors score and all instrument parts on disk for you to print as many copies as you need are available now. We accept credit cards, checks, and school P.O. numbers. Contact us at 501-762-6620 or email contact@sightreadingforband.com
Clear the clutter and allow us to help you get organized.
David Herring Music Sightreading Skillbuilders Systems are also available at Pender’s Music, JW Pepper, and RBC Music
David shares, “When I began work on Sightreading Skillbuilders Level 3, I put a great deal of thought into utilizing the systems that had been so successfully established with Levels One and Two. I set forth to improve the methodology and structure so as to expand and address the new challenges faced with teaching Level Three.”
“I created something that would follow a similar difficulty path but would cover the sightreading concepts in a new and fresh way. With this framework in mind, the book is split up into 11 chapters with
each chapter adding a new concept for the students to learn and master.”
“Experience with my own students has taught me that the level of their sight reading skill varies. Keeping that in mind, I wrote the Level Three material so that less advanced students would be able to gain confidence while guiding them on to more difficult concepts, but at the same time providing engaging exercises and tunes for the more advanced sight readers, no matter where you start in the book.”
All students regardless, of sightreading skill level, will find this material useful and challenging.
Features
1) Increased number of parts. Adding a 2nd Flute/Oboe part and a separate Mallet part. Bassoon has its own part allowing for some woodwind only scoring.
2) Percussion: In addition to the typical snare and bass drum part, the auxiliary percussion part in the later chapters, features two different instruments to increase the number of voices that the band will hear. The mallet instrument will on occasion have a part that is completely independent of the wind parts.
3) In a slight departure from the Level One and Two books, I have increased the number of pieces (to 132) the pieces are a bit shorter allowing you to cover more material and concepts during a sight-reading session.
4) The 144 Rhythm Key Lines are multi purposed, starting first with a simple note pattern that covers the danger notes associated with the three keys (E/Eb – A/Ab) but then moving to independent rhythms, and reviewing time signature changes in the later chapters.
***Note Concerning Percussion
Although auxiliary percussion parts have specific instruments listed, one should be mindful of both logistics and what is needed by the musicians. Large amounts of time searching or gathering up the exact right instrument may, in some circumstances, be counterproductive. There are times that another instrument might be what the students need to be working with at that time instead of what is suggested in the music. The mallet part can be played with any of the standard mallet instruments. Rolls should be ignored by vibe or bell players.