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Re: Sight reading - How fast is good?

Author: EaubeauHorn
Date: 2019-01-15 21:58

Comment on sight reading in a group. The important thing is to stay with the group, and not to hit all the notes. When it is impossibly fast for me to get all the notes, I make sure the notes I do hit are when they are supposed to be. The most maddening thing about amateur group sight reading is when people feel they must hit all the notes and completely ignore what is going on around them; enough of those people and the group falls apart. So .... practice sight reading often because that is the only way you learn it, and do so with a metronome so you can make sure you are not losing the tempo to hit the notes. Then practice the sections you had to skip until you can play them.
That said, my favorite thing to do is mad scramble sight reading where I can just barely make it....I don't know why that is fun but it is. Left-out notes and all.

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