Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2023-11-12 18:13
Eye muscle coordination can be factor. A higher percentage of sight-reading errors seem to occur at page breaks or line breaks. How they are spaced and done varies considerably between pieces and publishers. (I've spent a minute here and there "training" this.)
There seems to be a stamina factor with sight-reading.
There's usually a bit of time to prepare, or cheat, if you will. Visually scan what you'll sight read beforehand, see the layout of the piece, try to see what developments it undergoes. Estimate the character of the music: the better your estimate is, the more it will help you.
If you're good at music, you'll be good a sight-reading whether you practice it or not. It becomes like reading English without needing to translate: you know at first glance what is written, and you can reasonably expect what will be written next. Yet, practice and frequent use certainly do improve the facility, whatever else being equal. That there are these two aspects is no surprise.
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