'The best way to develop your sight-reading is to sight-read.'
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Jane believes that sight-reading is much easier than many are led to believe.
Have you ever noticed that the music-staff, as printed on a sheet of paper, is similar to a keyboard rotated (counterclockwise) to vertical position? Climbing up the staff as if it were a ladder, is like going from left to right on the keyboard. These ideas are helpful for understanding my approach to sight-reading.
The position of the written note (as indicated on the staff) determines a key on the keyboard. The trick is to train yourself (with lots of practice) to transfer the information from your eyes to your fingers. Your eyes identify the indicated position and your finger strikes the corresponding note. The goal is to instantly transform the visual image of the position of the written note to a command to the finger to strike the corresponding key on the keyboard.
In the beginning there is no need to have a name for each note. We'll do that later. Masters and co. We need terms and names only to communicate. Also, one does not need to understand chord structure to read music.
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The regular keyboard has 88 keys. Each staff, containing 5 lines and 4 spaces, denotes an exact 9 key section on the piano. That totals 18. For the remaining 70, we add short lines ('ledger' lines) to the top and bottom of staves (plural of 'staff') to extend the notes as far as we need to go. Symbols such as 8va, make extremely high or extremely low notes convenient to notate.
One does have to get used to the various time values of notes. But by breaking the counting into the smallest note duration, and counting with whole numbers, understanding all this becomes easy too. You might have already noticed how Jane counts differently. Instead of the standard '1 & & &, 2 & & &, 3 & & &', which would drive anyone insane, Jane counts '1, 2, 3, 4; 1, 2, 3, 4; 1, 2, 3, 4'.