I played clarinet since the 4th grade. I stopped in mid high school. I've been playing guitar for about 2 yrs now.
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Originally Posted by atari 2600
Virtually no one fucking sight reads. Go through your music collection. .001% of those people can sight read, loser.
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Do you even know what sight-reading is?
Sight reading isn't hard at all if you can read music. I remember concert band from high school; we used to go to competitions. There was a sight-reading part where the entire band went into a room with a judge and were given a random piece of music to sight-read. We were pretty good.
I mean, yeah, sight-reading is hard if the piece is insanely difficult (black notes up the ass) but even so, one can still tell tell what the notes, rhytms, time signatures, etc are (i.e., read it). It's just a matter of getting your brain to tell your fingers and/or mouth to do what you see on the page; But one can still read the piece, just not do it physically right off the start.
Sorry if this post sounded a bit harsh. I didn't notice until just reading it. Just trying to say that sight-reading isn't as hard as you make it out to be, atari.