Sight reader in musescore

• Jul 5, 2017 - 05:31

Can musescore be used as a sight reading program, for practicing sight reading?
If so, how to avail that functionality in musescore?

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• Jul 5, 2017 - 07:35

What specific functionality would you expect to see? It is a notation program, so it can display music for you to sightread. It can also play it back so you can hear how it sounds.

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• Oct 7, 2018 - 16:05

not that it hasn't been attempted: https://musescore.org/en/project/random-notes-generator
I would also like to see more interactive training features, particularly instant feedback on my performances, like you get in yousician. Random notes is a great idea as it circumvents muscle/sight memory, etc., and forces you to actually read the thing.

I tried this but had no luck with it:
https://musescore.org/en/project/midi-sight-reader

and this is some linux stuff but I need windows:
https://musescore.org/en/project/midi-instrument-training

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• Sep 28, 2018 - 22:30

I am using MuseScore to teach music reading skills to a high-functioning autistic young adult of remarkable intelligence. The student is a technically accomplished 21 year old classical trumpet player who, until recently has been sight-reading music on the level of a beginner. A lack of available instruction in music reading skills, together with an advanced ability to memorize rhythmically complex music, resulted in this student never learning to read or count rhythms. Also, due to his autism, learning to recognize and differentiate all the many subtle visual symbols used in modern musical notation was not easy for him while he was developing as a musician.

Using MuseScore, I am able to create very effective, interactive instructional 1-page lessons that demonstrate both visually and aurally, a wide range of musical notation. By using these materials, the student is able to learn musical notation by watching, listening and playing along.

If anyone would like more information about this project, please leave a message here.

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• Jan 7, 2019 - 16:31

I play Baritone Horn and have been learning a new method of sight-reading using Mark Phillips book, "Sight-read any rhythm instantly". While the title is rather ambitious, I have found the ideas in the book very helpful. There are many test pieces in the book, but it would be much better to have some test pieces in Musescore that combined different rhythms. Would you mind sharing the 1-page lessons you have already created?
The book has an unorthodox methodology, but I really like it.

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