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Does touch typing practice require actual words or just random letters? I think if you can be proficient at random notes you'll have an even easier time with ac

• yomly 7y ago
  This is false however reasonable sounding it is. If you spend time with professionals sight reading, you come to appreciate that the cognitive overhead of reading individual notes caps out quite soon and most high level sight reading involves chunk identification and anticipation. I've seen Liszt sight read at normal tempo for example and that is going to mostly be structural reading than note by note reading. Where random note reading could be useful is for more "modern" atonal stuff...
  • TheOtherHobbes 7y ago
    It's absolutely true you need to be able to read the "words" or even phrases in the music, not just the letters. You can only do that with significant look-ahead. But you also need to know how which fingers to use. It's very much not just a case of playing the right note at the right time. It's about playing note sequences using fingerings that lead smoothly to later note sequences - all at speed. That means including thumb-under and other moves that aren't at all intuitive and are totally non-obvious to beginners. Apps like these don't just fail to teach that, they don't recognise it as a thing that needs to be taught.