Piano with Robyn

Did you see the sight-reading workbook I published a few weeks ago?

It’s 14 days of FREE sight-reading exercises to help you practice the basics of improving your reading skills. Imagine improving your reading in under 5 minutes a day.

Drop a 🎹 in the comments and I’ll send you the link!

This simple method took my reading skills from... abysmal 😬 to having the confidence to sit down and read through any music I want to learn.

Did it change things overnight? No. I’m not going to come at you with click-bait and promises to change your playing in just 5 minutes. But I *CAN* promise you that if you commit to intentionally practicing this skill, you will hardly recognize your reading abilities a few months from now.

So what’s the secret? Intervals.

Reading music can really be broken down into three simple steps:
1. Starting with landmark notes to start finding your way around
2. Recognizing if your notes are moving up, down, or staying the same
3. Identifying the distance between each note (i.e. Intervals.)

I’ve talked about step 1 a lot. I’ve also helped you practice 2 a few times. And now we’re going to start diving into step 3.

Today, we’re keeping things simple and we’re ONLY dealing with steps (or seconds). These are easy to recognize, because the notes are always neighboring lines/spaces, which means that they’re also always neighboring keys on the piano.

Does this seem too easy? It is easy! And it will get more complicated - but take a minute or two a day to master this basic skill, and really - you’re going to see big results. Promise!