Take it light, my friend and don't rush it.

I don't know anyone who became a good sight reader at the piano overnight. Or overweek. Or overmonth or overyear. This is something that takes some time to master, well worth the time spent, mind you, but time that must be spent nevertheless.

When practicing *anything* there will be plateaus, there can even be things detrimental caused by overdoing it. So take a break from the Sight Reading and do other things, maybe come back to the Sight Reading again after a few days or more. I often find that I get there faster by doing that. Seems the subconscious mind will plug away at something that you've immersed in, but only if you stop the immersion periodically and do something else with the conscious mind. That is why Einstein played the violin. Seriously. By all accounts he was a terrible violin player, he wrote in his notes that playing the violin occupied his conscious mind, allowing his subconscious mind to work away at the real problem he was working out.

If what you are doing is not having fun, it won't improve anyway.


--Mac

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