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
18.2
Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 1
18.3
Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 2
18.4
18.5
Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 3
18.6
18.7
Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 4
18.8
Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 5
18.9
Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 6
18.10
Cornelius Gurlitt: Etude Op. 82, No. 7