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

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If you play new music regularly, sight reading can help you master new pieces faster and with more confidence. This may be difficult to understand for some people not familiar with these concepts, but think of it in this way. Many good sight readers are accompanists. They may accompany a singer, an instrumentalist, or they may even be part of an orchestra.

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You can only ever sight read a piece once. Once you’ve sight read it once (even partially) you can never sight read it again;you can only read it. At this point muscle memory starts to come into play, and you are no longer practicing your sight reading - you are learning a piece. The sight-reading books provided by The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music are fantastic but you can also choose easy compilations of pop songs. It could definitely make it more fun to sight-read a song that you already know. There’s a limit to this, however; if your notes are all over the place, even if your rhythm is correct, it won’t sound very good. You need to have a certain degree of note-reading accuracy, but as we mentioned, this is very flexible and nobody will really care if you play wrong notes as long as you can cover them well.Even if you don’t know the piece very well, you have the right to your interpretation. Trust your inner self to know what to do. Hopefully, this article has given you plenty of ideas of how you can up-level your sight reading skills. The most important thing about improving sight reading is consistency. Like everything in music if you practice little and often you’ll soon make progress.

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As far as practice goes, the more you practice, the easier piano sight-reading will become. However, if your experience practicing sight-reading is less than exciting and engaging, you will not be motivated to do it. Pay attention to what encourages you to practice, and also to what discourages you. Sight reading ability depends on a set of foundational skills that are sometimes called musicianship. In this article I’ll break down what sight reading is, explain the benefits for musicians and producers and suggest ways to grow your skills. Royal Academy of Music | Royal College of Music | Royal Northern College of Music | Royal Conservatoire of ScotlandDo not keep it for the end of the session, but start with it. I am giving you this advice as too many of my piano students share the following: “I did not have time to do my sight-reading this week as I have spent most of my time working on the piano pieces.” If you maintain the same tempo, you should snap your fingers at precisely the same time as you did on the recording. You’ve got to be able to hear the music internally, and on top of that, we’ve got to feel confident. Don’t be embarrassed to start simply like this; the sooner you start learning sight reading, the easier it becomes to master. But once you can read music well enough to hear it in your head first, sight reading becomes a lot easier. As you can read, I have always been exposed to sight-reading and it is the reason why I am so proficient at it!