Carry on

Good daily practices to keep in mind

Read music every day for 15 to 30 minutes or more depending on your comfort level. Progress takes shape one day at a time.

Recommended lecture on sight reading by a teacher show know how to teach!!!

Mastering The Piano: Teaching Strategies--Sight Reading and the Sight-Reading Checklist--How the Great Readers Do It!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yvdALo22ME This is part four of a series of 12 from this teacher and you may find yourself wanting to watch all 12 parts--it’s that good!

As you continue learning, never stop being curious or encouraging yourself forward

  Do the practical, but also look for  material that suits your learning style, your temperament.  If something really turns you off especially at the start, drop it and stick to what works best for you.

  Regularly review music theory --start at grade one if necessary, chords, intervals, harmonic progressions, types of cadences, kinds of music and so on. As you continue to review theory --don’t get bogged down trying to understand everything at once. For many of us, repetition and gaining experience is how we grow. There are numerous theory sources online for musical practice in recognizing intervals, notes, chords, scales, etc. musictheory.net offers a powerful set of self testing resources and it’s free.  

Don’t be scared of the learning curve-- there will be a lot of information and details that are new to you or that you knew but didn’t quite learn thoroughly--give it time, time, time.

  Reading notation is not cut and dry-- there is a learning curve here too-- interpreting the editors use of notation (scores are notated differently because editors preferences differ from oneanother and and because practises change)

 Bare in mind that even contemporary scores can be scored in numerous ways, so first glance over the piece of music before reading it. Take note of key, time signature, accidentals, highest notes, lowest notes, look for patterns. Old scores from the 1800s, the 1940s look a bit different than say something that is current--the notation might even be distracting to you--take a moment to focus before playing.

   And let’s not even talk about atonal music where old rules hardly apply-- because expecting to read atonal music  (unless it is written for beginners or you are incredibly talented) might be called torture. Stick to tonal music!!! At least at first.