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Old 01-28-2007, 09:28 PM   #8 (permalink)
trumpethack
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Re: Getting sight reading back

One thing that I do that really made my sight reading improve alot when I started it was transposition. Take easy beginner type etudes (I love the Getchell books for this) and practice them in lots of different keys. Never play as written! This mental exercise not only helps your transposition (obviously), but then when you have to sight read something and NOT transpose it, it feels like easy street....! Another thing along these lines is to transpose your warm up studies. For example if you warm up with clark 2 even though you have it memorized pull out the book and when you are playing it in F look at the one in G. Kills two birds with one stone... Over time little things like that can really make a big difference.

Matt
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