Author: EEBaum
Date: 2007-01-21 07:23
While I imagine this would be trickier to find in 9th grade, playing in a contemporary music ensemble did wonders for me. We were given music at times that I still believe was not humanly possible to play, and made doubly tricky with the very limited reherasal time we had. The best I could do is to "play what it looks like". I missed notes right and left, but did my absolute best to make it sound like what it looked like it should sound like (lots of ascending quick-tongued notes on the page, I played lots of ascending notes, quickly tongued, in that general range). And the audience, conductor, and other performers all insisted (unsolicited opinions) that I sounded fantastic.
Of course, as the concert neared, and with practice, my accuracy improved, but playing "what it looks like" got me a great running start and has become the cornerstone of how I sight read.
Once you stop freaking out about playing "exactly what's on the page" and can allow yourself to play "what it looks like", you may very well find yourself significantly freed up to actually play the music with decent accuracy as well.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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