Finally serious

[ClassicalMan]

For the past 31 years my playing has been mostly improvisational.  I started sightreading at 8 years old. However, due to circumstances beyond my control, I haven't had the chance to really be serious about classical piano music and sightreading.   I know the music theory etc.  I just need to sit down and practice.  For the first time in my life I intend to master sight reading.  My sight reading has been limited to hymn style church music.  I finally bought a metronome and I'm learning Bach's prelude no.1 of six little prelude. I have the first page mastered up to 88 bpm.  The goal is 92 bpm. 


I need any advice or helpful hints on sight reading as I posess this intense and earnest passion to master reading music. 

[dorfmouse]

This thread should get you going, reply #4 by Bernhard.

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4526.0.html

[bernhard]

This thread should get you going, reply #4 by Bernhard.

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4526.0.html

Unfortunately that thread gives the addresses for the old forum, so they will not work.

Here are the updated addresses:


https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,1871.msg14384.html#msg14384
(Reading notation – Richmann’s book – Cambridge word scramble example)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,1976.msg15962.html#msg15962
(Sight reading – Richmann’s book)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2406.msg20820.html#msg20820
(grand staff)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2577.msg22247.html#msg22247
(Keyboard topography – how to find notes by touch)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2713.msg23282.html#msg23282
(Teaching bass clef – grand staff)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2751.msg23710.html#msg23710
(detailed explanation of the sight-reading process)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2757.msg23890.html#msg23890
(Sight reading techniques – Good post by faulty on the folly of pedagogues)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2763.msg25148.html#msg25148
(music to develop sight reading from scratch)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,3205.msg28255.html#msg28255
(how not to look at the keys – Richmann’s reviews)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,3334.msg29381.html#msg29381
(Reading both staffs as a single grand staff - Reasons for working on scales - Detailed discussion of Richmann’s book)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4461.msg41580.html#msg41580
(Looking at the keys: Good or bad? exercises to help finding notes by touch. Good contributions by Chang).

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4506.msg42967.html#msg42967
(accompanying to teach sightreading)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,5090.msg48850.html#msg48850
(the score is tabs for piano)

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[pianobabe56]

*laughter* Bernhard is like some freakishly-efficient super-hero! Without fail, Bernhard leaps in at random places to save Pianoforum from inefficieny! Updating old links, giving tantalizingly rare and intelligent tips, all without the slightest hint as to his true identity.

[BoliverAllmon]

how do you update the links?

[bernhard]

how do you update the links?

The hard way : find the original thread and copy the new address.