Klarinet Archive - Posting 000456.txt from 1996/07

From: "Daniel A. Paprocki" <dap@-----.US>
Subj: Re: sight-reading
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 19:51:53 -0400

These things might help improve sight reading:
1) Know Baermann 3 inside out. By knowing your scale patterns you can read
note
groupings instead of single notes.
2) Work on etudes in extreme keys (+4 sharps or flats) every day. If you are
fluent in the "hard" keys, the "easy" ones will be a piece of cake.
3) Sight transpose etudes up and down a 1/2 step and a whole step. This is the
same philosophy as #2. If you can transpose music well, just playing
what's written is a - Yes - "piece of cake".
4) Practice sight reading - without stopping! We all fall into the play-stop
and fix it-play-stop and fix it mode sometimes. Don't let yourself
stop - no matter what happens. Sometimes our mistakes are only major
to our ears and not to someone listening to us.
5) Finally, just practice more! The more you play, the more patterns you
become familiar with, the better your playing or sight reading will
become.
Dan

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Daniel A. Paprocki
dap@-----.us

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