Ask your tutor
Ask him or her to write out (or photocopy) scale exercises for you. Playing the notes while reading them is a skill that requires practice and will pay huge dividends for you. The mind will train itself to go from seeing a note on paper to making the fingers move. With enough practice, a tune can be played through the first time nearly at tempo.
The advantage to scale exercises over tunes in this reagard is that you're not memorizing them. Every time through is reading the music, not playing from muscle memory.
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Originally Posted by SteveB
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