The PhotoReading step is best used with longer documents. Taking a whole mind approach to reading music scores is a matter of entering an ideal state, telling your mind to take in the information and translate it into the appropriate behaviors, then PhotoReading the pages. Let it sink in for the evening, then next day, play the music by reading as you normally would.
The difference noted by musicians is a fluency they'd not experienced when cold reading a score and trying to practice it. By adding the neural priming that PhotoReading offers, the connections between the music on the page and the movement of the muscles to play the notes is strengthened.
Music reading is a multi-task affair. One task is seeing and knowing that the notation on the page is a particular musical note, E-flat for example. The other task is being able to create E-flat on your instrument, including the necessary pressures, durations, etc
Learning a new music score by doing both tasks simultaneously, puts the brain at a huge dissadvantage. If each task takes 50 units of neural energy, combining them requires not 100 units, but more like 250 units. Separate and conquer!
