Where Should Your Eyes be Looking When Sight Reading?

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First Video of the Year!

I do know that reading music in this way will not be accessible (yet!) to those who have not played music/ their instrument for a few years. There is a certain degree of fluency with reading music and playing your instrument that is required before you can get to this stage. I will be posting more videos about sight reading that address the basic in the future so hang tight!

When your fluency with music and reading improves, musicians don't actually read every single note. Instead, we've had enough experience that we can make assumptions of what the notes are.

It is like when you read the word "CAT". You don't see it as C-A-T, then process it as the entire word "CAT", and then all the ideas of a "CAT" rush into your head.
Instead you just see the word and all the associations you have to "CAT" is understood in an instant.

As a musician, instead of reading the notes C moving to G, we simply read it as a "fifth" and our body and ear responds accordingly. If we see the notes G-C-E stacked as a chord, we see it as a particular hand shape, chord, harmonic function, a particular sound in the inner ear, and our body responds accordingly..... but more details on this in another video.

I hope this video helps you at some point in your musical journey. I had gotten to a point in sight reading where I would hit a wall; I couldn't take in enough information fast enough to keep up with the demands of the music while I was sight reading. I was often told to simply just "look ahead" and to "read in chunks" but I was never given a method to actually develop this. I felt like I was just blindly trying to look ahead, So it wasn't until I found Pascal La Corre's method book "La Magie du Dechiffrage" that I discovered the door to reading better and learning to look ahead. This underrated book has honestly changed the way I approach reading music and has affected many other aspects of music such a learning faster. Thus, I really wanted to share this information with everyone. (Link below for Method book).

He's created many sight reading method books that are not limited to just pianists; There are some for Vocalists and instrumentalists as well. However, I have only been able to find this book being published in French so if anyone knows of it's translated version, Let me know!!

Happy Practicing,
Michelle

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