Sight Reading Mechanics

[EtienneBlanchard]

Reviving this very interesting thread. As a late-returning amateur, what helped my sight-reading most is close to what Gisela describes: reading material well below my level every day, at a slow but strictly steady tempo, and never going back to correct a wrong note. I also found it useful to scan the score away from the piano first - key signature, clef changes, tricky rhythms - before playing a single note. On the C-clef question raised recently: I practise a few minutes of alto clef daily with simple chorale phrases, and it is slowly becoming almost as natural as the G and F clefs.

[Jean-Séb]

I must admit I am completely lost when I stumble on a key other than the two usual ones.