Michael, great reply. I'd not thought to analyise the process in this way. It does however tie in directly with a comment made by the double bass player at the Nat King Cole concert I cited earlier in the thread.
He clearly stated that, with much practice, on sight recognition of groups of notes prompt's an auto finger response. I've therefore got to have patience & ton's of practice in order to develop my individual sighting skills.
I did visit a local CG group who cherish sighting skills to the degree that each ensemble session contains a 20 min part review accompanioed by performance at sight.
I guess the realisation that becoming a WHOLE musician will require ALL music skills to be worked on over a period of time, Sighting parts is amongst these.
Happy playing....Dave
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