Moz
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I am in my sixth year of playing the sax and still my sight-reading is too slow. I can sight-read anything until I have to read it at greater than about 160bpm. Once that level is reached it seems there is a bottle-neck in the flow of info from my eyes to my hands.
I guess it is analagous to someone learning a foreign language in that you are never fluent until you don't need to translate into your own language first, and I think I am still translating. Read the music into the brain, translate into muscle signals, send to fingers, play the tune.
I listened to a program on the radio the other day in which a musician was talking about sight-reading grade 8 music whilst still not in his teens -- to me, this is the euromillions lottery win of music. I might like it but it just ain't gonna happen.
It may be I can never sight-read fast music but I make one last appeal to anyone who has had this problem and got over it before I resign myself to the chorus of sax players and never the leading man.
Cheers
Martin
I guess it is analagous to someone learning a foreign language in that you are never fluent until you don't need to translate into your own language first, and I think I am still translating. Read the music into the brain, translate into muscle signals, send to fingers, play the tune.
I listened to a program on the radio the other day in which a musician was talking about sight-reading grade 8 music whilst still not in his teens -- to me, this is the euromillions lottery win of music. I might like it but it just ain't gonna happen.
It may be I can never sight-read fast music but I make one last appeal to anyone who has had this problem and got over it before I resign myself to the chorus of sax players and never the leading man.
Cheers
Martin