How Ear-Training Improves Your Sight Reading (Part III: Initial Entrances)
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This is Part III of a three-part article on how ear-training improves your sight-reading. If you haven’t check out parts one and two, start with Part I.
Hearing Your Opening Entrance
The first two articles in this three-part series explain how learning the fundamentals of relative pitch automatically and permanently improves your sight-reading. Essentially, by learning and engraining each of the musical intervals you develop a capacity for reading music ‘note to note’ – just as you learned to read your written language ‘word to word.’ However, we still need to address the issue of hearing your initial entrance. Therefore, this final installment outlines how learning the ‘clues’ of relative pitch will speed up the development of this performance instinct.
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