Improve your sight-reading Piano Grade 1 [Improve Your Sight-reading]

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Paul Harris is a well-known composer and music educator whose sight reading books are renowned throughout the world. If you maintain the same tempo, you should snap your fingers at precisely the same time as you did on the recording. If you want to make it a bit more challenging, you could try playing a scale using these rhythms. For example, if you were practising violin sight reading, you could play D major as shown below. To prepare yourself for this learning journey, make sure you have a steady supply of new music. This might sound like it would be difficult, expensive, or both. But there are plenty of resources offering free or cheap new pieces.

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For many students, this means stepping out of their comfort zone. However, one of the hardest things about sight reading is maintaining fluency. So what’s the point of sight reading? Even if you aren’t really a fan of live performances, you may find playing music with friends to be very rewarding. Making art with friends who sing or play other instruments gets a lot easier if you don’t need to spend a long time learning a piece. Increase the conditions that lead to more sight-reading. Work on eradicating whatever’s getting in your way. With practice, your sight-reading will improve. Personal Bests and Mini Outcomes: Some thoughts on your pupils’ practice in these unprecedented timesWe hope that you now feel a little more confident and ready to jump into sight reading practice. Make sure you have plenty of pieces of music in different styles ready to practice with. With patience and focus, you’ll start to see huge progress in your ability as a musician. There are no wrong notes; you’re just one step away from a better one. How to get started with improvisation

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If sight reading is already in your practice regime, you might not need a full-fledged trainer to help you improve.

Many musicians shy away from improvisation as they associate it with people doing extraordinary things without music. Still, at its basic level, improvisation is just playing without music. Improvising is one of the best ways to improve fluency and play errors with confidence. In jazz, there’s a saying.

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We’ve gone through what sight reading is and what it isn’t. Now let’s look at why you might want to sight read. I’ve used an analogy of playing with a singer, but what if you don’t have a singer or an instrumentalist to play with? Surely then sight reading doesn’t matter?

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The third exercise that I suggest is a fantastic one to do while you are driving in the car or listening to music at home.