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For Sight-Reading Music, Practice Doesn't Make Perfect

SOURCE: CLIPMARKS • 2010-06-21
TOPICS: Music • Reading • Sight Reading • Music Education • Sheet Music • Piano • Entertainment_culture

clipped by: AlcanzarloClip Source: www.usnews.comA basic type of recall may limit the benefits of experienceHeres a harsh piano lesson: Years of tickling the ivories go only so far for those who want to sight-read sheet music fluently, a new study suggests. Aside from those painstaking hours of practice, a memory skill that pianists have little control over may orchestrate their performance.Sight-reading is the ability to play sheet music on an instrument with little or no preparation. Any pi... read more »

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