Imagine this.
You arrive at a friend’s wedding and spot a mutual friend
who looks slightly panicked.
“What’s wrong?”
“I’m supposed to sing in the wedding, but my accompanist is
lost and won’t get here before the wedding starts!”
What do you do?
Are you prepared to step up and save the day?
Or can you merely sit quietly and hope your friend finds someone else who can help?
Or can you merely sit quietly and hope your friend finds someone else who can help?
Transformation
People love stories of transformation.
Whether it’s remodeling a house, overhauling a wardrobe, or
losing weight, we love to watch the process of transformation.
In Cars, Lightning
McQueen transforms from being a selfish, friendless jerk who only cares about
winning the race into someone who sacrifices his trophy to help a wrecked racer
cross the finish line of his last race.
Who would love this movie if Lightning McQueen remained a jerk and just
won the race himself?
We love these stories because they give us hope that our
lives can also be transformed for the better.
Average or Super
There is one thing that can transform any musician from an average
citizen to a musical super hero.
What do you think that is?
Innate talent?
Beautiful tone? Great personality? A bite from a musically gifted
spider?
The majority of excellent musicians have most of those things,
but many average musicians have them, too!
Musically gifted spiders do not tend to be very discriminatory these days.
Musically gifted spiders do not tend to be very discriminatory these days.
Super Sight Reader
The one skill that makes excellent musicians a cut above the
rest is their ability to sight read.
When one performs a prepared piece, it says a lot about the
musician’s technical and expressive abilities.
In an audition or contest setting, however, everyone’s prepared piece
should be top notch. It may have taken a week or a year to get their piece to that
level, but it got there nonetheless.
This is why most auditions include a sight reading
portion. Sight reading separates the super
hero musicians from the average citizens.
Super Powers
Sight reading gives you super powers, including the ability to:
·
- Learn new music without relying on someone else’s recording
- Approach new music with confidence
- Stop wasting time learning new music
- Gain more time for making your music sound incredible
- Leap tall intervals in a single bound
- Get hired for more gigs
- Get hired for better-paying positions
- Rescue musical damsels in distress, as in our initial story
- Impress your friends
- Save the day
The rest of the story
What did I do when I discovered a damsel in musical distress
at our friend’s wedding?
Thanks to the
super powers I had developed through practice, I was able to spend about 10
minutes rehearsing with my friend before the wedding and save the day!
Who are you now?
Are you a super hero musician with sight reading skills of
steel, able to wield the above super powers with ease?
Are you an average citizen musician with average music
reading skills who stands in awe of the super heroes, doubting you could ever
join their ranks?
Who will you become?
You can change nothing and remain the same, or you can take
steps to become a super sight reader.
Take the first step right now! Download The Super Hero's Top Secret Guide to Sight Reading for FREE and learn how to become the musical super hero your world needs!
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