| The answer here is any and all music should be | | | | really give vitality to your keyboard explorations, |
| considered music that can be used for | | | | if you do that. |
| sight-reading. For best results I would suggest | | | | Ted Greene in his book Chord Chemistry extols |
| picking music that is a couple of grades below | | | | the virtues of learning to navigate your way on |
| your optimum performance level. For instance, if | | | | piano as beneficial to all musicians. A fantastic |
| you feel you are a comfortable Grade 5 then | | | | musician and jazz educator Greene suggests as a |
| Grade 3 Repertoire should pose little challenge. | | | | "real brain-melter" reading piano music in concert |
| In Scotland we are blessed with a huge array of | | | | pitch on the guitar. He says it gave him a real |
| Celtic music for fiddle, penny whistle and lots of | | | | insight in to how harmony works. |
| other folk instruments. These make excellent | | | | A great classical guitarist "Allan Neave" suggested |
| exercises for sight-reading due to the varieties of | | | | once that you should maintain a pile of books that |
| dances like the Reels, Strathspeys, Jigs and Polkas | | | | are set aside for the purpose of sight-reading and |
| each with their own intriguing rhythms. | | | | as your work through the material you should |
| The violin studies of Kreutzer and Kayser are also | | | | place it to the bottom of the pile and not return |
| worth a look. As are the Partitas of J.S.Bach. | | | | to it until it arrives at the top once again. This |
| Music for the Flute, Saxophone, Trumpet and | | | | strategy helps to maintain the freshness of your |
| Clarinet adapts quite nicely too to the guitar. Given | | | | sight-reading practice time. |
| their range of notes they are excellent reading | | | | Another great insight to incorporate into your |
| between the Fifth and Seventh positions on the | | | | sight-reading regime is to "Never Stop". |
| guitar. | | | | We are not looking for perfection here, we are |
| As teachers of the guitar still requiring a method | | | | training the eyes, brain and hands to work as an |
| to better their own skills I would suggest giving | | | | efficient "Machine" as it were. In a sense speeding |
| your self a scare and try sight- reading some | | | | up our response time to musical symbol |
| music written in Bass Clef, just read it an octave | | | | recognition. |
| higher. Getting used to reading in Bass Clef will | | | | |