How I’d redesign piano sheet music

Re:How I’d redesign piano sheet music by bmj on Saturday July 04, 2015 @01:34PM (#9830854)

How many guitarists (and I'm thinking classical or, perhaps, jazz guitarists) can just sit down and sight-read a piece? I suspect part of the craft is learning a piece, and learning the most efficient fingerings/patterns for the piece.

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Re:How I’d redesign piano sheet music by leventhan on Monday July 06, 2015 @01:04AM (#9836911)

I've been in guitar orchestras, what we do is annotate our sheet music with optimal finger positions as we work through the piece. Especially for long pieces you can't necessarily keep in your head, this helps with sigh-reading tremendously since the positions are written in the sheet music.

Some sheet music for guitar also has note-level annotations for string number and finger positions, which does the above for the guitarist.

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Re:How I’d redesign piano sheet music by the_cat_kittles on Saturday July 04, 2015 @01:45PM (#9830898)

sight reading charts is a must for journeymen pros in jazz, though some of the greats didn't read.

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