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Re: Sight Reading Techniques

Author: Bassie
Date: 2006-02-16 14:10

Funnily enough, the way to learn sight reading is to be bombarded by an endless stream of new pieces...

Some thoughts:

- Key signature, key signature, key signature. Key signature. Find ALL the changes in the piece and commit them to memory. Finger the notes in the scale to get them in your mind. That note on the middle line - is it a B or a Bb? If you have to think about it, you've failed.

- Those black notes never go as fast as you think. And for the most part, they tend to be grouped into neat patterns. Groups of four. Often, a run up or a run down or an arpeggio, or one-step-up three-steps-down or whatever. Occasionally composers trip you up with the odd group of notes - mark these and practice them when you get time.

- Very occasionally a group of fast notes has an odd pattern and some truly esoteric fingering requirements. This is called a fingerbuster, and will require special attention... :-D

- Key signature.

- Listen to the shape of the piece. Does it come in four-bar chunks? Do certain phrases repeat? This will allow you confidence when you're counting those 24 bars rest.

- Key signature.

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