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Title: How to improve my sight-reading skills
Post by: pianomancoy on May 29, 2014, 02:04:55 PM

Hello.

Does anybody know of any useful methods or resources which enable you to improve your sight-reading skills?

Thank you.

Title: Re: How to improve my sight-reading skills
Post by: chopinlover01 on May 30, 2014, 10:58:13 PM

Hanon
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On a more serious note, get some "one a day" exorcises and do those. And Liszt etudes are great for that.
 

Title: Re: How to improve my sight-reading skills
Post by: faulty_damper on May 31, 2014, 06:00:48 AM

Sight-reading includes a technical aspect.  If you don't already have those movements ingrained, reading becomes laborious because you have to read and figure out how to play at the same time.  If you already have to movement vocabulary ingrained, reading becomes vastly easier.  Thus, learn how to play as many patterns as possible and reading will be much easier.

Title: Re: How to improve my sight-reading skills
Post by: goldentone on May 31, 2014, 06:34:15 PM

I recommend Super Sightreading Secrets by Howard Richman.  You used to be able to download it for free.  I thought it was public domain, but apparently it isn't.  It's $14.00 on the official site.  I've read through some of it, and I think it is as good as it claims.

Title: Re: How to improve my sight-reading skills
Post by: pianomancoy on June 07, 2014, 08:14:09 PM

Thank you for the replies.