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Guitar Society of Toronto | Workshop Presentation – Sight Reading for the Guitar with Simon Farintosh
April 26 @ 9:45 am - 11:15 am
$25
Anecdotal evidence suggests that guitarists entering undergraduate music programs struggle with sight-reading more than instrumentalists of other disciplines. Researchers have found that 80% of middle and high school guitar students report finding reading music notation to be very difficult while only 20% of band and orchestra students expressed difficulties. Several factors may contribute to this, including the influence of popular music, guitar instruction culture, complexity of the guitar fretboard, and pattern recognition skills. This workshop will present several basic exercises involving rhythm, visualization, and position reading on the guitar. Participants can expect to read a series of exercises that are progressive in difficulty, beginning with rhythm exercises on an open string. Elements such as pitch and harmony will be introduced one-by-one, applying a spiral curriculum framework that is easy and satisfying to follow.
Simon Farintosh is currently a student in the Doctorate of Musical Arts program at the University of Toronto.
Here, his research is centred around devising sight-reading curriculum for undergraduate students in guitar performance. He is currently running the guitar program at the University of Victoria.
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