Piano - Improve Your Sight-reading - Grade 2

Instrument Care, Polish, maintenance and tools String Instrument Care, Polish, maintenance and tools Care of your instrument is very important, primarily to keep it out of harms way such as cracking in dry conditions but secondly to keep it in top performing condition. Generally speaking there is no advantage of one over the other except that some require a chair to anchor to. Dominant cello strings Dominant cello strings are possibly not that well known because of the very competitive and excellent strings there are on the market at this level. Intervals of perfect fourth, tritones, and sevenths, both major and minor, are particularly important in sight-reading. Different ligatures have a marked effect on the feel and tone of the instrument while a mouthpiece cap protects and preserves the reeds.

Brilliant sight-readers know the music notes so well that they read a piano score with the same facility as they would read a book in their native language. It actually reduces your ability to sight-read and it is extremely detrimental to your overall piano education. Develop a repertory of the most common bowing patterns and practise them regularly both on and off the string.