I am a beginner and have shown burning passion in piano. My memory is superb. As i can remember things very accurately and fast.. My main concern is that when i read moonlight sonata, i cannot use sight reading (which means the note)effectively. My teacher is telling me that I can now play that piece. But i can only remember the fingering and the movement. As for the fantasia imprompt by chopin, my problem of sight reading still arrived in my mind. I memorise all the music through ears, but often don't know if i have practice wrongly for the fast momentum in fantasia chopin.

-- hui hui (jianbrother@yahoo.com), June 11, 2003

Answers

Sounds like you need to go back to the basics and learn those note names. Sight reading through unfamiliar music is a good way of learning them.

-- Dianne Winters (cwinters@paonline.com), June 17, 2003.