| When I was teaching at the Wilkes University Conservatory & Community School of the Arts in Pennsylvania (now Eddie Severn teaches there), for my high school student, I would pull out a duet book of Rich Willey’s and Bugs Bower’s “Rhythms Complete” for sight reading at the end of a lesson.
I know of a saxophone player and university jazz orchestra director, Nick Driscoll, who pulls out a viola or violin book for sight reading. He would always find something challenging to hone his sight reading skills. He said that when he was auditioning for music schools, his teacher at the time would make him sight read at the end of each lesson. So, when he went to audition for music schools, the sight reading part was so much easier and he was more comfortable with it. It seemed to work wonders for him, as he had received his M.M. from the Manhattan School of Music. |