Improve your sight-reading Piano Grade 1 [Improve Your Sight-reading]

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So often students don’t start counting until after they play, by which time, it’s too late to find a solid pulse.

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Keeping the pulse steady in music requires practice and concentration. The music in the following exercise has four beats per bar. It has a strong drum beat so you’ll be able to hear the crotchets and there’s a metronome to help you at the beginning. Instructions

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If you want to take it a step further, create your own rhythm using a couple of notes. You can then develop this further by using the pitches within a scale. Use a metronome to ensure that you are keeping a solid pulse and get creative. This skill will make it possible to learn pieces of music faster than ever, too. Fast learning isn’t often that important for students, but if you want to play at higher levels, it’s indispensable.

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When teaching yourself sight reading, one of the most important things is to play the entire piece of music from beginning to end without stopping. This useful skill will also help you continue playing if you miss a note during a performance. It also helps ensure you don’t lose the rhythm of the song. You might remember that reading a book as a young child was painful as you had to stop at each word. Now that you are fluent in English, you can recognise each of them instantly and you do not need to think about them at all anymore. Your reading and understanding of each word is so advanced that you can now fully focus on the meaning of the novel that you are reading instead of decoding each word slowly. I am an excellent sight-reader as I have always been exposed to it. Since a very young age, my father, who is an amateur violinist, used to put new scores on the piano stand for me to play various duets with him and I must say that it was a phenomenal school.Most people find it challenging not to allow mistakes to cause them to stop or compromise the rhythm. One of the best ways to get over this is to involve some level of improvisation in your sight reading training. The iOS and web-based app uses a unique musical algorithm to generate new musical material based on your parameters. If you find sight reading practice feels like a frustrating chore, you might change your mind when you try ToneGym. Musescore Sight Reading Trainer

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You’ve got to be able to hear the music internally, and on top of that, we’ve got to feel confident.

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You have to be able to read the notes, work out what key the piece is in and it helps if you can recognise chord progressions, phrasing in music and cadence points.