Master Sight Reading With These 6 Tips! |Piano Tips

In this video I share 6 tips that can transform your sight reading into something to be proud of. If you are willing to spend just 5 minutes a day, you can Master Sight-Reading With These 6 Tips!

Sight-reading is one of the most challenging skills facing the pianist and I think these tips can help anyone become a better sight-reader. Piano tips.

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Tip number 1 is to sight-read daily. Even if this means only for five minutes, that's fine! Music is a language and like other languages it's very difficult to learn if it's not something you do daily.


tip number 2, don't look at your hands. Now this is the number one mistake that I see most people making.

tip number 3 Make sure to keep a steady beat. This is also a common mistake. Because half of sight reading is reading rhythms, it is very important to make sure that the rhythm is precisely accurate. In fact I think that the hardest part about sight reading is reading The rhythms.

tip number 4 is Learn to recognize patterns. You probably won't be surprised to know that there are many many recognizable patterns in most music. In fact many pieces follow predictable harmonic and scalar patterns. Being able to recognize these patterns is essential to becoming a good sight reader. If you have to look at every single chord and slowly figure out what each note is, rather than instantly recognizing that it's a C chord in 1st inversion, then it will be very difficult for you to sight-read Fluently. Recognizing chord and scale patterns is essential to being able to sight read fluently.

Tip number 5 is Always be looking at least one measure ahead of where you are Where ever possible.

Tip number 6 is Don't worry about the wrong notes. Oftentimes people are so worried about playing wrong notes that they end up stopping and hesitating constantly throughout a piece that they’re sight reading. This habit will make it very difficult to Sight-read fluently. Even if you only play half of the notes correctly, keep going!


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