Sight-reading – are we making it up as we go along?

jennyworstall:

I came across this interesting post about sight reading – always a tricky thing to teach!

Originally posted on music@monkton:

I am a keen chess player, but I wouldn’t rate myself as particularly good. My dad taught me to play chess when I was young – although I suspect that a more accurate way to describe it would be that he taught me how each piece moves, and to take care not to lose pieces too readily (although this still happens even now!) To be perfectly honest, I find the whole concept of teaching someone how





to play chess – that is, how to

really

play – a bit of a mystery. I think I’ve learned a few things over the years, mostly by trial, error and humiliating defeat



, and I’m still hopeful that the more I play the better I’ll get. But I have no doubt that what I really need is some quality teaching if I am to significantly raise my game.

When it comes to sight-reading music, I…

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