Are Good Sight-Readers BORN or CREATED? With David Holter

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Are good sight-readers born or created? In an attempt to answer this question, I share a clip from an interview with piano teacher, David Holter, who talks about his experience of how he became a good sight-reader.
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@Toogoodtobetrue458 2 года назад

There’s always someone better than you at anything and everything. But you’re not going to be good if you don’t put in the work.

@PianoSightReading 2 года назад

Yes, that's right.

@robb6406 2 года назад

I like the point you made at the beginning where you only see the finished product of someone's sight reading without knowing what it takes to develop it. When I was a sophomore in college level music theory, many of my classmates were taking first or second year piano lessons. They all thought I was some kind of miracle sight reader when they heard me sight read the pieces they were playing. However, they didn't realize that I had been playing for almost 20 years and that my first teachers emphasized music reading above everything else and that the pieces I was reading and learning at the time were much harder than the beginning Bartok pieces that I sight read for them. I also believe that people who have a more seeming "natural ease" at sight reading may have developed this comfort based on their initial experiences at the piano. If teachers introduce music flashcards, music theory reading spellers and workbooks, and insist on hearing sight reading at every lesson from the very beginning of lessons, sight reading becomes a more "natural" skill. My music theory professor was a pianist himself and could play a large number of pieces from memory even if he had not practiced them in a long time. And yet he still could not sight read very well and would even have to start over when he made mistakes in playing simple ear training melodies for dictation. He blamed his lack of sight reading skills on his childhood teachers. Most likely people like him who memorize and play by ear do so to overcompensate for their reading deficiencies and they are so gifted at this that their teachers do not suspect that they have reading difficulties.

@PianoSightReading 2 года назад

Yes, I agree. A lot of it has to do with your initial years and what type of teachers you had, your upbringing, etc. And like you say, people who memorise or play by ear do so most likely to compensate for their lack of reading skills. Likewise, most people who are good sight-readers aren't usually great memorisers because they haven't needed to memorise, they can just read the music. Although it does help to memorise for some pieces!

@josephdezarn139 2 года назад

Manu, would you be willing to sight reading Tom Brier’s “Sunlight and Shadow”? It’s a slow, easy waltz unlike all these other monster pieces of his you’ve tackled in the past

@PianoSightReading 2 года назад

"Monster pieces"? haha, yes indeed. I'll take a look.

@jollylawyer9999 2 года назад

I love sunlight and shadows

@PianoSightReading 2 года назад

@@jollylawyer9999 It will be in an upcoming video.

@jeanbigboute Год назад

I think most good sight readers are born with a talent for it and if nurtured early it can grow into a great asset. If you manage to become a good pianist as your guest did you may be able to go back and shore up the reading skills. But there again it helps to start young. Most people don't have the brains and dexterity to do that many things at once while staying ahead in the music. It is like saying that you can become a very good mathematician or athlete just through a positive attitude and determined practice. You will definitely get closer to your ceiling but not by any other measure.

@PianoSightReading Год назад

Hm... I'm not sure if I agree with the first statement. I think it's a combination of our education, how we practise, our environment and our personality. It's a matter of having the right "ingredients". But yes, the early you start, the better, that is true. For example, I wouldn't say I was born with this talent but the environment I was brought in really helped. I started piano lessons at 5. My mum played the piano, and my brother the violin. I also started learning violin a year later. I did 3 years of solfege which has helped tremendously with ear training. And I happen to love trying new things and challenging myself (personality) so I constantly sight-read new pieces. And a big factor too, I think, is that I always play hands together from the start and only do hands separate practice if I need to. And I've done a lot of accompanying. My mum had a similar upbringing to me with piano & solfege and yet, she is not a good sight-reader. I think it's due to 2 main differences: she has always practised hands together from the beginning and she doesn't mind playing the same pieces all the time (her personality).

@jeanbigboute Год назад

@@PianoSightReading I suspect that the hand-eye coordination and focus are innate. You also had the nurturing environment I mentioned. Someone who takes up the piano later in life is unlikely to develop strong sight reading skills no matter the effort. Teachers of adults have said that they have to manage expectations in their studios. It is a very rare adult learner who can achieve real proficiency so they steer towards realistic goals and enjoyment of the process vs. mastery.

@PianoSightReading Год назад

@@jeanbigboute Yes, adult learners may not reach an advanced level of sight-reading but they would still benefit from learning to read music. It depends on so many factors. I don't think it's impossible for adult learners to become decent sight-readers. It just requires a lot of work and patience.

@jeanbigboute Год назад

@@PianoSightReading The amount of work required to sight read the nontrivial classical piano repertoire is incompatible with the demands of adult life. There is no question that sight reading is a part of piano study but most adults will have to settle for learning a few pieces over a long period of time vs. engaging with new pieces as they would with reading text in their language. And, as with learning a language or playing a sport, the mental and physical ability to do either degrade rapidly with age. Yes, there will be exceptions but that is what they are, exceptions.

@PianoSightReading Год назад

@@jeanbigboute Unless they're retired... Many of my members are retired and they're enjoying it.