When many students are learning a new piece of music, the first sight of the score is despair. For example, when they first saw "Battle Typhoon", "Han River Rhythm" and "Fantasia", when they saw these scores, did they feel hopeless? love?

As a major threshold for learning the piano, the level of sight-reading largely distinguishes amateur and professional. Just because we don't plan to be performers doesn't mean we don't need to practice sight reading.

Beginners, it is definitely not because of poor eyesight or inherently slow response that the ability to see spectrum is low, but because they are not familiar enough with the words and grammar in the music score, so they cannot immediately take it out of the brain and already understand it. things and use them.

So for beginners, how to improve their sight-reading level?

1. Read the score before and play after

Some students tend to rush to play after only reading two or three notes. These are not conducive to improving sight-reading ability!

The correct way is to immediately turn your eyes to the next note as soon as one note is played accurately. When practicing with rhythm, you can use your feet to tap the beat gently. If you use a metronome, listen to the beat with your ears and count with your heart. Remember the time value of the sound that has popped in your mind, and you don't have to stare at it with your eyes. A string of sounds that pops up in this way can be a smooth melody.

2. Read more and watch less

Because students are unfamiliar with the position of strings and fingering forms, they often pay attention to their hands but not to read notation.

The correct way is to read more, less or even no hands, and finally develop the habit of reading and playing.

3. I'd rather slow down than stop

Due to tension and other reasons, the speed of sight-reading is too fast, which affects the accuracy and coherence of playing. You can play the basic beat first, prompting the use of slow sight-reading. Only by slowing down the speed, the eyes can read the score carefully, the brain can react in time, the ears can listen to the sound, the hands can find the position, and the correct fingering and playing methods can be used.

This looks very slow, but what you get is the correct sound and rhythm relationship, the correct fingering and playing effect. It avoids the time and effort spent on correcting preconceived mistakes after the fact. From the point of view of the practice method, if you start fast, you will not be able to get fast, and if you start slow, you will lay the foundation and create conditions for fast.

4. Beat the rhythm, catch the rhythm

When sight-reading, special attention should be paid to keeping the rhythm and grasping the rhythm. Even if you can't find the exact spot, keep counting the beats, think about the rhythm, and keep playing. In addition, before sight-reading, you can imitate the key rhythms to reduce the difficulty of sight-reading.

The analysis of guzheng sight-reading can be found here: Is it a slow reaction if you can't play the guzheng score when you get it?