Sightreading Online

[Pizz]

Hello! I have a question for all of you. A few months ago I stumbled on a website that had a java applet that helped with note reading by spitting out random notes on the staff and you had to name them as quickly as possible. The duration of each trail run was 300 seconds and afterwards it would tell you how many notes you completed, how many errors you had, your score as a percentage, and the average time it took you to name each note. While it may not be as effective as sightreading a piece of music, it certainly helped improve my note recognition, and it was a great way to kill time at work.

Does anybody know where this (or something similar) can be found on the web?

[stillnew]

I have this one bookmarked: http://www.musictheory.net/trainers/html/id82_en.html

It has been an aid to theory and note name recognition, but I wouldn't think it would help with sightreading.

[Option1]

You could try this one: ">http://www.musictheory.net/tra...html/id82_en.html

EDIT: Whoops, didn't even realise the URL was the same as the one stillnew posted until afterwards. Doh!

Neil

[Steve_W]

How about this: http://musicorum.apinc.org/article35.html . This applet has several options: it can accept input from a piano keyboard, or using a mouse you can input either by clicking the note on a keyboard or the note name, and it can run with sound or silently. -Steve

[stillnew]

Steve, is it just my computer, or its settings, or is that site very slow to load up at any point for anyone?

[Steve_W]

It's slower tonight than it was yesterday but still loaded in about 20 seconds for me just now (eMac, Firefox 1.5, cable modem). -Steve

[Pizz]

Thanks for the links. They're both good.