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Topic: Sight Reading  (Read 1964 times)

Offline steveolongfingers

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Sight Reading
on: December 22, 2003, 05:23:47 AM
My old teacher sight read through The Waldstien by Beethoven almost perfectly at a pretty fast tempo (not allegro, but pretty fast) but it took me a week to play all the notes right for the exposition right at like 50 beats a minute.  Why does it take me so long to read through it?  I am in the last level of piano, i dont know what they call it, i call it grade 11, but i tryed to learn this several years ago, and gave up, and then a year later did it again.  I want to know how i can be like my old teacher and sight read like awesome.
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Offline leemay001

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Re: Sight Reading
Reply #1 on: December 22, 2003, 09:26:07 AM
Have a look through a couple of pages in this forum, there's been a few people asking the same thing and some useful replies.
  ~Lee~
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