This article details a way teachers can help beginning level piano students keep their eyes on the music and avoid looking at their hands to improve music reading continuity. For beginning piano students, keeping your eyes on the music is a difficult challenge, but necessary to build note reading ability and continuity. For teachers,
Getting Better At Sight-Reading In 4 Steps Getting better at sight-reading is not only important for the development of becoming a musician but also helps middle and high school students get into all-state and county bands and orchestras. An important part of most auditions is the sight reading portion yet most musicians consider it their
This article details 3 different tips to improve sight-reading for beginning through intermediate piano students. These ideas can help in building fluency with new pieces at a quicker rate, and can help with overall note-reading comprehension. As most students and teachers know, sight reading and overall note-reading ability is a crucial part of piano study.