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Originally posted by jon-nyc:

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Originally posted by ShiroKuro:


Wow!! That is awesome!!

So, did you do a strict "sightreading" approach where you play something once and then don't return to it the next day? Or did you play through the same piece a few times (or a few days) before moving on?

Looking back, how has this changed or otherwise affected your playing?

How has this changed or otherwise affected your reading?

I just played it through once. Skipped the ubiquitous repeats. I found that one sonata gave me the ~10m or so of daily practice I was looking for.

It definitely helped my sight reading. I was always a horrible reader, much worse than my overall skill level. I'm still not great, but I'm much better.

I'm going to keep it up, just move on to another composer.

I’m impressed. Schumann has some good ones for sight reading. Some in the kinderzican’tspelltherestofit are nice to sight read. I found my sight reading got better when my kids started taking piano lessons and I helped them. It’s still not great, but it’s much better than it was.

Wait, no. It’s A combination of the kindersz... and the album for the jugend. Opus 68.

Speaking of sightreading freaks of nature... When I lived in Japan, I had a friend who was an elementary school music teacher. In Japan, ES teachers pick a specialty and usually have a 4-year degree in that. Her specialty was music, and she had a music degree plus maybe the equivalent of a masters in piano.

Anyway, early on in our friendship, we would get together and play for each other, and I knew she could sightread anything. Well, turns out she could sightreading (prima vista) and transpose! I learned this when she accompanied me singing and changed the key to suit the key I wanted to sing it in, rather than the key it was written. After that I would always find things I wanted her to play, stick the music in front of her and off she'd go, music of any style, any difficulty. If it was on the score, she could play it (iow, no improvising). But it was so impressive!