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Reading Rhythms: The Secret to Sight Reading Pt 2

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Sight reading rhythms is the same as reading a book.  You read slightly ahead, you read in groups (many times recognizing prepasitional phrases...groups of words) and because you are use to a standardization of a language, it frees your mind to envision the picture the story is painting.  

The same in music.  Many times you can be mathematically correct when writing a rhythm, but if you don't group it in a more common way, now the player has to switch from recognition to sub-divided reading.

Here is an example of a "prepa-musical" phrase.  (BTW, there are 28 in the entireity of music)