Rhythmic and melodic reading for the acceptance test

The reading test puts a score that you don't know and they ask you to read it: by tipping the rhythm, singing it with the name of the notes or playing it in your instrument. What we evaluate is that you keep your pulse, that rhythm and heights are right and that you don't stop.

He's trained with an established routine for his previous seconds, daily practice with new material and many readings in front of another person. Here goes step by step.

To sum up

Rhythmic reading holds up at a stable pulse, and the melodic, to think at degrees of the scale from the tonic.
Use previous seconds to check key, armor, compass, alterations and difficult passages.
A complete error weighs less than to stop you from rectifying.
Read new material every day: repeat the same exercise trains memory, not reading.
He's trying to get a jury to get used to pressure.

What they ask of you at the reading test

Each university will have its own way of reading. At the most recent call we have reviewed:

The National University I had an oral part of reading at first glance, before a jury in Bogotá, that was not made in your instrument.
The District ASAB He requested to write intervals, triads and chords of seventh, as well as melodic and rhythmic reading.
The National pedagogical included reading his aptitude and musical knowledge and reading at first glance at his main instrument test.
The Central University He had an expressive and perceptiva test with an imitation sung of intervals, rhythmic motif and phrases.

Be ready for three things: read rhythms, sing tuned melodies and read in your instrument. Check how your program looks about its instructiva, for example [National University's specific tests]](https://admisiones.unal.edu.co/pregrado/pruebas-especificas/).

Rhythmic reading: first the pulse

The most common error in rhythmic reading isn't an ill-read figure, but a pulse that accelerates at an easy and challenges at an difficult level.

Fold his pulse with his bodywith his foot or his hand as requested by his jury and never stop him.
Read by group, don't note by note. Learn how to recognize cells with a tipstick and a half-icorchea, syncube or 3-strand.
Counts the branch inside (chordes or half-icorchees) at the most intertwined passages.
Keep your quiet. A silence also counts, and that's where his pulse runs most.
In compas as as 6 / 8, feel two pulses with ternary subdivision, and with 6 loose times.
Look at a bar ahead. While you run one, your eyes should be at the next.

A co-ordination exercise

Finger with his foot and read his rhythm with palms or with a syllable. When he goes out, his pulse with one hand and his rhythm with his other. methonomic at a slow and up and up little by little, without passing to the next tempo until it gets clear twice in a row.

Melodic reading atonized: think about degrees

To say at first glance isn't to guess note by note: it's to know at all times where you're inside the tone.

That puts the tone by the armor and final note.
Take the reference. If the jury gives you a note or a tonic chord, she sings low his scale or an arpeggio before she starts.
Think about degrees. If you know that a note is fifth grade, getting to it from the tone is easy.
Use chords as bridges. At a difficult leap, think about triad: often note is the fundamental, third or fifth of a chord of tone.
Watch the sensitive and accidental alterationsThat's the most bad news.
If you get lost, get back to the tone. He's mentally and retakes at his next bar.

Sing with the name of the notes and a comfortable record, without forcing your voice. Do not have to be a singer: you seek tuning and correct reading, and not a good tipster. If you need to strengthen the base, check [what's the solpus and how to practice it]](/blog/que-es-el-solfeo-y-como-practicarlo).

The keys

Domines the sun and fa key in the fourth line, but your instrument uses only one: they are the most widely used in the solpic exercises and an underpractice key doesn't have to stop you from sitting with the jury. If you play rape you know how to do third and practice other keys only if your program wants them.

What a jury looks at when you read

The exact criteria are defined by each university but generally a jury lays down this:

Common criteria and how to train them
What's up?	What's that about?	How do you train him?
Stable lung	The tempo does not accelerate at an easy and does not slow at an difficult level	Readings with metronomics and recordings
Exact Rhythm	Figurines, tipples and quiet with their actual duration	Daily rhythmic reading by group of figures
Filling	Intervales and alterations in place	Stages, arpegtiums and leaping from the tonic
Continuidad	Do not stop or repeat to correct	Always read about running, even if there are mistakes
Reading of notes	The right names, without hesitation at the additional lines	Fast reading of notes in sun and fa code
Musicalidad	Dynamic back and joints and frying	Read all indications, and not just notes

Choose a tempo that you can hold from start to finish. Read a little slower but stable and right, usually better than start quickly and get out of place at third bar.

The seconds before we start

Many tests give you a moment to look at the score. Use it always in the same order, so that the routine will calm you down:

Clave, armor and tone.
Compas and sign of tempo.
Difficult rhythmic figure: synphis, three-clels, tipples, and backlashes.
Large leaps and accidental alterations.
Repetitions, boxes and sign of end.
He's mentally singing his beginning and deciding his tempo.

If time is very short, prioritizes the first three steps: an ill-read armor or compas ruin all reading while a failed leap is just a punctual error.

Reading practice plan

Daily 20 minutes
Bloque	Tiempo	What to do
Rhythmic reading	5 min	Two or three new exercises with a marked pulse
Dying	5 min	Scale, arpeggio and leaping from the tonic at the tone of the day
Melodic reading	7 min	Two new melodies at first glance with a run and without first testing them
Instrumento	3 min	A new fragment at first glance in your instrument

During the week

He's changing his tone and his face every day.
Use new material: solpseus, corals, folk melodies or orchestral parts of your instrument.
Once a week, write a reading and listen to it with the score: mark where his pulse moved or a note was broken.
every two weeks, read to someone who's a jury: your teacher, a partner or someone from your family.

To read for another person changes everything: there appear his nerves and his stops. A medio tono Can you take [music theory classes]](/clases/teoria-musical) with solphis and reading, virtual or at home in Bogotá, where your teacher acts as a jury and fixes you at the time. He knows his proposal at [preparing for admittent tests]](/preuniversitario-musica). Completes with how to prepare the musical dictationThat training the same ear in the opposite direction.

Frequently asked questions

What's the difference between solpseus and reading at first glance?

The solpseus is the discipline of reading music with the name of the notes, with or without an intonation, and it's practised with exercises that you can repeat. Retirement at first sight is reading a score that you have never seen, without testing it. The solpseus gives you tools and first view puts them to the test.

What do I do if I get wrong in the middle of reading?

Go ahead. Retract your pulse in the next strong time and continue. To stop you to correct breaks continuity, that's just one of the things that are evaluated.

Do I have to sing well for the singing?

Do you have to have a singer's technique, but do have to be tuned. He sings in a comfortable record and if his melody looks so sharp or bad, ask his jury if you can have an octave lower or higher.

Do we read at first glance with an instrument or a song?

It's up to the university. At the revised call, the National had an oral reading that was not done in your instrument and the Pedagogic requested first-thought reading at the main instrument test. It's best to prepare both.