music you can't read, but have technique for

[Bob]

What do you do about this?  I definitely have plenty of technique to cover the piece.  I know how I want it to sound.  I just can't get my mind to move fast enough to read the piece.   What's missing?  What do I do?

[faulty_damper]

Learn to sightread better.

[abell88]

I have the opposite problem , but maybe I can suggest something useful.

Don't try to see it all at once; if you have to learn one chord, reading each note one at a time (for now!), so be it.  I don't know what in particular is giving you trouble, but suppose it's a succession of big nasty chords, full of accidentals. Learn (memorize) the first chord. Learn the second chord. Practice moving from one to the other. Etc. When you've practised all the moves enough, your hands should automatically flow in the right places. At this point (ideally) you will not be seeing each chord as a group of individual notes; instead you will remember the feeling of the chord as you see it. Does this make sense to you?

And in the meantime, work on pattern recognition. Note-by-note reading slowed me down for years.

Hope this helps.
Alice

[allthumbs]

Greetings

Practice your sight reading as you learn new pieces. Work on memorizing short sections of the music even though you can't sight read them fast. Build on each short section until you know the whole piece. Also try and figure out the most difficult section of the music and work on that first.

The more you pratice sight reading, the easier it will become. Remember how hard it was when you first started to read? Same thing with music. It will start to become clear with time and experience.

Cheers