Samuel Munro - Articles

What material can be used for sight-reading?

The answer here is any and all music should be considered music that can be used for sight-reading. For best results I would suggest picking music that is a couple of grades below your optimum performance level. For instance, if you feel you are a comfortable Grade 5 then Grade 3 Repertoire should pose little challenge. Read

By: Samuel Munro | 14/11/2009 | Music

Preparing to teach sight-reading

As a description of the teacher's role in the lesson I like the word that the Japanese use for one who teaches [Sensei - literally 'One who has gone before']. Learning music is a journey or a path. Remembering that we cannot teach what we do not know, to teach sight-reading we ourselves, as teachers must have already travelled that path to acquire understanding. Every teacher will be different and have various strategies that work for them, some more successfully than others. Read

By: Samuel Munro | 14/11/2009 | Music

What is Sight Reading?

Sight-reading is a term that in my opinion needs clarification. Notation, whether standard or tablature is by its very nature a visual representation of sounds that tells the performer what sounds to play, where, how loud and for how long. It also tells the performer when moments of silence occur and how long they last too. Read

By: Samuel Munro | 13/11/2009 | Music