EasyPianoHacks | How to Sight Read 8x Faster for Piano

About this course

Reading new music is hard. Learning new songs takes time.And whenever you ask for help on how to read faster, people say “just practice” – and they’re absolutely right, except for one thing...For a student of mine, this one thing made the difference between learning something in 5 hours versus 5 minutes.For many students learning to play online, this is the #1 mistake when it comes to learning piano and playing new songs.And this one thing is something that over 60+ of my private students have used to make consistent progress learning to play piano...It’s not just “if you practice,” it’s also “how you practice”Here's a story.One of my students had been learning to practice sight reading “the hard way”She was frustrated. Before she was my student, she would slowly decode the music note-by-note, and then plain memorized the hand movements. She had the basics of read music, but reading music felt like she was "reading ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics."That's when we took action.Fluent sight readers learn to identify musical patterns. Musical patterns like scales, intervals, chords, and sequences in the music. Instead of reading 1 note a time, you read 3 notes in a chord, 8 notes in a scale, and more...Just think about that...Reading 1 scale at a time is reading 8 notes at a time. If you compare that to my student reading 1 note at a time, that's 8x as fast as most beginners read notes, and we haven't even started talking about reading scales in both hands... If you give any of my students a piece of new music, this is the way they have learned to sight read because this is the way classical performers sight read. Classical music may not be your thing, but classical training can give you the skills you need to play