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. But why are some "great gods" so fast?

In fact, people with fast sight reading are not how fast they react, but that they have been trained to remember the common arrangements and logic in the music score, and they can guess what sound is next even without reading the score.

We can understand sheet music as a "language". Because like all other languages, the phonogram has words, words, sentences, and grammar. According to this line of thinking, when you read a score, it is actually the same as when you read an article.

If you can't understand, then let's play a small game~

Below I give three sentences, each sentence contains 10 Chinese characters, you have to challenge to read them out and understand them at the fastest speed, and then calculate the time separately, OK! Let's start now!

First group:

one two three four five six seven eight nine ten

I believe you must have understood and read this sentence very quickly, right?

So let's challenge the second group.

Second Group:

The scallion cake flavor ice cream is delicious

Is it slower than the first sentence? But the speed of comprehension and reading should also be OK.

So get ready, here comes our third group!

The third group:

噑膳弱嶋发发宮宮宮孷長

Did it take a long time to find out, oh, the original meaning of the sentence is: so slow, what are you doing?

Through this game, a rule can be found. Although the three sentences are all 10 Chinese characters, the difference in response speed is very large.

When we are reading the first sentence, you can even guess what comes after just seeing the first 3 words. Because you understood the logic of this sentence in an instant, you probably read it correctly even if you didn't read the latter.

The second sentence contains a large amount of information, with 4-5 words in it, such as scallion cake, flavor, ice cream, so good, so you need more time to sort out their logic, and the speed of the reaction will be faster. will be slower. (Fortunately, our native language Chinese, you know all these characters, so you can easily understand their logic and pronounce them.)

And the last sentence, in your brain, you can't find any experience of having seen similar combination of words in the past, so you have to read it out word by word, and then through thinking, to understand this sentence.

The visual ability is actually the same. You can understand that powerful people are native speakers of music. They have seen the common combination patterns and logic in most music many times and use them every day. So just by looking at it, you can know what is being written in a whole paragraph, and you don't have to look carefully at all.

The feeling of a great person reading a score is like the feeling of reading the first sentence. As a beginner, reading a score is like reading the third sentence.

Therefore, for 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. understand things and use them.

For how to practice guzheng sight-reading, please see here: How to improve guzheng sight-reading level