I Rob,

IMHO your teacher is right, sight-reading will improve with practice...to
accelerate the process you should focus just on reading, i.e. you should take
those books that are used by music student to practice sol-fa

(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol-fa and click on solfège)

My teacher made me practice "spoken solfège"...I had to name the notes but
without singing them...in my country this is a test for music students, and you
can find even books with a companion CD to train for this test...I don't know if
it is the same in other countries, but I found this exercise extremely useful.

Just my two cents

Max


--- Ven 22/5/09, Robert Coontz <rcoontz@...> ha scritto:

Da: Robert Coontz <rcoontz@...>
Oggetto: [musicalfossils] Drills for basic sight-reading?
A: musicalfossils@yahoogroups.com
Data: Venerdì 22 maggio 2009, 23:46

















I started the piano from scratch as an adult student two years ago but
still can't find notes and chords fluently from a score. I can figure them out,
with hesitation and fumbling. It's frustrating!



My teacher and other people tell me that it's just a matter of time and
practice, but there must be some systematic way to accelerate the process
(assuming I'm not musically dyslexic). Can anyone recommend drills, techniques,
even computer software that might help me over this hurdle?



Thanks,



Robert































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