Author: skygardener
Date: 2008-08-12 22:34
Sight reading is one of those things that you get to do by doing. One good idea is to get an etude book (any etude book, not just for clarinet). Every time you practice, open a page and play through one or 2 lines very, very slowly so that you have time to read and produce every note without mistakes. The key is "without mistakes", not speed.
One could even make it a bit more random... photo copy several pages from an etude book and cut the photocopies into strips that are one line long and draw one or two strips from a bag every time you practice.
As Ken Shaw mentioned, it is like reading words, and it really does take time. Even in one's native language, you can hear that special, slightly-halted way that children read up until middle or high school when they become fluent. That is about 8-10 years for a language that they are speaking and seeing all day. It is not hard to expect music to take a long time also.
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