Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 19:14
please please Help with sight reading
Hi,
Sight reading is really frustrating for me. My sight reading is WAY below my playing level. Any tips on that. And does anyone have any advice on just overall practing piano?
Thanks!!
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I dislike sight reading. It's always been my least favorite part of evaluations. I don't think there is anyway to make it more likeable but if practice a lot that can help to lessen the stress. Borrow all sorts of music from your teacher or from the library. The more music you have to look at is better because you don't want to play the same measures over and over again. Play several measures straight through and don't stop even if you make a mistake. Definitely use a metronome before, during and after playing the measure to help play the music on tempo. I hope this helps! Let us know about any problems and/or improvements!!
Hey Lillibet!
Sight reading used to be really hard for me too. I can sight read really well know though. What I did was just practised my normal songs and then I sight read (not very well) through random music books. It might take awhile but eventually it just clicks and all of a sudden know how to do it. It's a great feeling once that happens! Good Luck!
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**iamthevoice**
Hey Lillibet!
Sight reading is one of my weaknesses too. A really good way to go about "practicing" it is by frequently looking at new music. If you're practicing a piece that you've been working on for awhile and you're starting to get frustrated with a passage in it, take a break and flip through some scores, pull out something you've never played before, and work on that. Take about 30 seconds before you start playing to look at key signatures, tempo markings, and look for rhythm patterns (and anything else that sticks out). If you need a little more time than this, that's fine. You can also "practice" sight reading from small scale passages and such in technique books.
Good luck!
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Music=Life, No Questions Asked
~*Ivana*~
It helps to play songs that you actually like once and a while. I practice a lot. Just not really the songs I'm expossed to practice. Once in a while I will get arond to them but luckily since I changed piano teachers she likes me to have the songs for a while anyways. My old piano teacher was way strict and actually made me cry a couple of times. Well I guess that other people wouldn't have cired but sometimes I am really emotional. You could also try for teh sight reading going throught he song and saying the notes out loud. unless you already tried that.
Ky