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Re: S/T memory & accidentals

Author: nellsonic
Date: 2021-02-24 02:03

For vision issues, using a tablet can be really helpful. I was getting to the point where I needed glasses to be sure of naturals versus sharps and the backlighting as well the ability to resize if needed has been really helpful. Music notation is not as friendly to aging eyes as it could be!

For sight-reading, developing more awareness of scale and arpeggio patterns can be helpful so that the brain is processing chunks more than individual notes. Most of us do that to some extent, but most of us could probably take it deeper.

Etudes are great for this. Besides just marking notes the pencils can be used for indicating which scales and chords are in each bar. I find it helpful sometimes to mark intervals that vary from an expected pattern.

Sight-reading daily builds these skills more over time. If your music library gets big enough, or if you dive deeply enough into IMSLP you can sight-read forever without running out of material. I put a date on something when I sight-read it and then find that if I don't use that music for anything else it is sight-reading all over again in a year or two.

Anders

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