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18 Sight-Reading

Sight-Reading Tips

  • Check the key signature, meter, and clefs
  • Preview the excerpt:
    • What patterns do you see?
    • Are there position shifts?
    • What finger(s) should you start on?
  • Count the rhythm and tap it in your lap or on the keyboard lid
    • Use both hands, tapping each for its own part and both together when appropriate
  • Set a metronome to a slow tempo
  • Don’t stop if you make mistakes—keep going!
  • After your first read-through, identify any mistakes and read it again

After reading through these excerpts, transpose them to other keys. Mark your progress in the checkboxes below each excerpt. Sight-reading excerpts without attributions were composed by the author.

18.1

Sight-Reading Example 18.1
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18.2

Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 1

Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 1

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18.3

Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 2

Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 2

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18.4

Sight-Reading Example 18.4
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18.5

Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 3

Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 3

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18.6

Sight-Reading Example 18.6
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18.7

Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 4

Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 4

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18.8

Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 5

Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 5

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18.9

Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 6

Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 6

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18.10

Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 7

Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 7

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