I can read music very well and learn it with limited practice. How can I learn to sightread it as quickly?

Answer 1

What I do is go grab my music folder of pieces I've never played before and just start playing through it all.I'll go through about 10 pieces without stopping to correct my mistakes.Remember your not practicing to learn the piece ,but your sight reading. This has helped me a lot.Now I don't get as nervous when playing a piece for the first time in front of my teacher.I love to hear his praises.Don't know why?Ok but I'm getting off of the subject.lol JUst do this as often as you can ,and make sure you have different time signatures so as to give yourself a challenge.Bueno.Hasta la vista baby.

Answer 2

The fastest way I have found to improve my sight-reading ability is by being in a choir. As a singer surrounded by other, perhaps more experienced singers, the ear and the eye is trained by simply hearing the correct way the music should sound while looking at it at the sheet music at the same time. Also, you just have to show up for the practices rather than slave away totally by yourself. Good luck!

Answer 3

Decide what kind of music you want to play. Then buy some books with this music, at your level. Then sight-read from cover to cover. If you really like a piece, you can set it aside to learn later. Do this a lot and you will improve and have fun doing it.

Answer 4

Grab yourself a hymnal and play it from cover to cover. The more you sight read, the easier it comes. You could do this with any book of music but a hymnal is a great source for lots of different key signatures is succession.

Answer 5

The more music you are exposed to the easier it will become. Know your scales.

PERFECT practice makes perfect.

Answer 6

Practice!!! The more you do it - the better you will be at it!