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Re: sight reading

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-08-20 17:46

Sight reading depends on 3 things - concentration, technique and sense of musical pulse and meter. I think that sight reading as an exercise is good for helping to build all three, which makes sight reading on a regular basis an important part of maintaining or building performing skill. So I don't practice sight reading so much as an end in itself but as a means to skill maintenance.

If you do a lot of playing, you probably get a fair amount of new material on a regular basis to provide for some sight reading regularly. But most of the time when you play in performing ensembles the programs are known, music is available and the need to sight read occurs only once, hopefully before (not at) the first rehearsal, so performance-oriented activity may not provide much ongoing sight reading opportunity.

IMSLP is a treasure trove of sight reading material - solo and chamber literature, orchestra parts and unfamiliar etude books are all there free of charge. You can read the PDFs from a tablet on your stand or print them out at minimal cost.

Karl

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