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Originally posted by Texas Bob:
The perfect pitch course sounds fantastic! Do you know if there's anything that good that can help with sight reading?
You just have to do it! 
Get ahold of all the music you can, and sit down and go through some of it every day. Try to get the rhythm right; NEVER stop and go over lines/phrases again; feel free to go slower than it's written, just as long as the beat is steady and, again, the rhythm is correct.
Oh, and as I think astrowill may have mentioned ( 
), theory pretty much helps you with anything related to music. Learn the sounds and feels of all the chords you can. All of the majors, minors, dimisheds (I don't think that's a real term... oh well), augmenteds, and sevenths (all kinds) are musts. You really can't emphasize theory enough, as long as you realize that emotion is still "king" in the world of music (despite what many "good" musicians might have you think....)
-Nick
