Sightreading Bass SH                                        

SH Bass Sightreading Examples

Level 1 Criteria
Key             C Major
Pitch           Stepwise, diatonic
Meter          4/4
Duration     Whole, half and quarter notes in measures 1-4; dotted quarter and eighth notes 
                        added in measures 5-8

Level 2 Criteria
Key             F Major
Pitch           Stepwise, diatonic with repeated notes and skips limited to the tonic triad on the beat level, 
                        lower neighbor approach to the tonic or dominant, or upper neighbor approach to the 
                        dominant.
Meter          3/4 or 4/4
Duration     Add rests at the beat level (quarter notes)

Level 3 Criteria
Key             d minor (harmonic form)
Pitch           Stepwise, diatonic, with skips on tonic triad and the beat level
Meter          3/4 or 4/4
Duration    Beat and division level notes with passing eighths and/or a one beat triplet on repeated notes 


Level 4 Criteria
Key             G Major and D Major
Pitch           Stepwise, diatonic with skips on the tonic triad
Meter          6/8 or 6/4 (compound duple)
Duration     Add dotted quarter rest, dotted eighth and sixteenth notes.


Level 5 Criteria
Key             C Major
Pitch           Stepwise and skips on the tonic, sub-dominant and dominant triads, chromatic alterations of
                    the 4th (fi) and the 7th (te) approached stepwise.
Meter          3/4, 4/4 and 6/8
Duration    All values previously used plus dotted eighths/sixteenths, syncopation at the division level 
                    and ties across the bar line.