[rodgersorgan] Re: Sightreader

Randall:

In my vast experience you will find that there are sometimes people out 
there. For the most part, if a person can sight read, they don't memorize, 
and if a person memorizes then they don't sight read. Sometimes a person can 
do both but not well. It has something to do with need. If you memorize 
quickly, then you don't NEED to sight read, because you already know the 
piece. Likewise, if you sight read, you don't need to memorize because you 
can already play anything. When I was young, I memorized things and quickly 
too I might add. I also memorized them in the proper key because I was born 
with perfect pitch. It took me a very, very long time to learn how to sight 
read because it was easier to buy the cd, or (back then) the record, listen 
to it and voila.....go and play it. Now I sight read and memorize but I had 
to make myself sight read and not rely so much on my "ear" to get me through 
things.
Now I listen to music with the intent on learning it. I listen to it over 
and over until it is stuck in my noodle and then I take out the music and 
read it. Something like the Suzuki method.


Rich


>From: "Randall J. Smith" <randallsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:14:18 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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>I am a great sight reader, but can't memorize.  That's one of the reasons=
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>  did not finish my degree in Music.  I cannot type without looking at my
>hands.   Can type pretty fast, just have to be looking!=0D
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>Randall Smith
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