[spangry]

That all seems like pretty solid advice. Chunking the piece up but practicing overlapping parts is particularly good - if you neglect the overlapping part you can end up with obvious 'seams' in the piece when you put it all together.

Listening to the piece first is always helpful, but be careful not to become overly dependent on learning by ear - it can cripple your sight reading in the long run. Same goes for separate hand practice. While both of these can speed up your progress early on, becoming a good sight reader pays dividends later on.

[prirun]

I was a terrible sight reader. My teachers never taught me is that sight-reading is a skill that has to be practiced, just like other piano skills.

I bought a ton of books in this series and started spending time every day playing them:

https://www.amazon.com/Bill-Evans-Jazz-Piano-Solos/dp/145840...

I'm classically trained but really enjoy playing these. They're hard enough to be challenging yet not something you have to practice for months like many classical pieces. An especially good thing for sight reading is that instead of lots of fast passages like in a lot of classical music, there are lots of chords where you have to read and play 8 notes on a beat. With time (I did this for about a year), you start reading entire chords by sight rather than individual notes.

Working to get better at sight reading makes learning new music much more enjoyable. You could probably do it by reading a lot of classical music below your playing level too, but for me, the jazz stuff is a nice break and something different.

[spangry]

Hey thanks for the recommendation. I too am a (lapsed) classically trained pianist with poor sight reading. This might just be the motivation I need to get back into playing :)