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  • Noa Kageyama

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    September 23, 2021 at 9:38 am

    Hi Caleb,

    I think centering for sight reading is going to be more about clearing the mind than anything else, so that you can prepare yourself to be open and focused on just that narrow window of music/time that you want to be attentive to, as well as feeling loose and at ease physically so your shoulders don’t hunch upwards to your ears, and you’re not creating tension that could get in the way of you playing technically demanding rep.

    I think hearing the rhythm of the first phrase (or even the fastest part of the excerpt) makes sense to me – but I have to confess that I haven’t looked into the literature on sight reading a whole lot, and suspect there are other folks who might have a much more systematic approach to both practicing and “performing” sight-reading…I wonder if there are other strategies or techniques that collaborative pianists and ear training teachers use that you might be able to find out about?

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