The biggest misunderstanding about sight-reading might be the concept that we believe to play all the correct keys, including dynamics, other signs, and expression attached to the score correctly.
The real meaning of sightreading skills is how quickly we can grab and understand the whole piece. So you can have a birds'-eye view of what you’re working on and be able to build and realize your own music.
I saw and tried many different approaches to improve my students sightreading skills, and nothing really contributed to their improvement but just accumulated their stress.
The first skill you need to acquire is the ability to quickly remember what you read and simultaneously keep forwarding.
It is a skill to bridge the gap between now and then, which keeps coming and not stopping doing it.
Only one solution to developing this skill is to learn as many pieces as possible and memorize them.
Memorization is the key. It requires us to know all the notation, pitches, locations on the keyboard, and which fingers to use to play them, and to integrate them seamlessly. Without this process, we can’t memorize a piece completely.
Once you become a strong reader and are able to play by heart comfortably, your sightreading skills improve naturally.
It is not a separate skill from all the required techniques to play the piano.
Separating one element from the whole and focusing on it too heavily is just time-consuming, counterproductive, and counterintuitive.
We need to approach it holistically, even if we are looking to improve some particular skills. It won’t come separately. Same as our fingers. They are connected to the arm, and the arms are connected to the shoulders, and the shoulders are connected to the spine, where the core muscles run through our torso. They are all working together holistically. We cannot isolate one from the others.
Elemental reductionism is a recipe for suffering.
If one wants to prepare for particular exams, he must practice, followed by what is required, for sure, but that can happen only when minimum standards are fulfilled.
There is no quick fix.
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