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Re: good books for sight reading

Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2020-09-15 16:06

I just discovered a weird thing.

I tried playing my fiddle music on my clarinet, and I can't play it very very fast but I enjoyed it anyway, because it is cosy and familiar.

I also played some tunes from a hymn book, which are very familiar to me. Some of them were in quite complicated keys (3 flats!) but I didn't really mind as I feel at home with that music and I could navigate my way around it okay, though again not quite fast enough.

After while I plucked up the courage to try my Grade 4 pieces again. Oddly I found them much easier after the fast fiddle music and the complicated keys of the hymn music. They are relatively slow and the difference in the difficulty of the fingering is not really that big.

The thing that I noticed is the difference was more psychological then being anything to do with an improvement in my skills.

It makes me wonder whether the Grade 4 pieces would be much easier if they didn't say "Grade 4" on the front cover of the book. Maybe it is the psychological leap to a new grade that makes it hard?

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