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Improve your sight-reading! Piano Grade 2

Essential exercises and pieces for piano students

Paul Harris author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber Music Ltd

Published:10th Sep '08

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This workbook enhances sight-reading skills through rhythmic exercises, prepared pieces, and graded sight-reading challenges, making Improve your sight-reading! Piano Grade 2 a valuable resource.

The book Improve your sight-reading! Piano Grade 2 serves as an essential resource for pianists looking to enhance their sight-reading skills. It employs a structured approach that combines rhythmic and melodic exercises tailored to address specific technical challenges. This methodical progression allows players to develop a comprehensive understanding of each piece, fostering confidence and competence in their playing abilities.

In Improve your sight-reading! Piano Grade 2, students will engage with prepared pieces accompanied by thoughtful questions that encourage deeper analysis and comprehension. This interactive aspect not only reinforces learning but also prepares students for the eventual transition to independent practice. The workbook culminates in a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces, allowing players to 'go solo' and apply what they have learned in a supportive environment.

Additionally, this edition includes online access to supporting audio, enabling students to evaluate their performances against professional standards. The Improve your sight-reading! series is designed to bolster reading skills and includes numerous practice tests to ensure success in graded examinations. By following the exercises and engaging with the materials, players will find themselves more equipped to tackle the challenges of sight-reading with ease.

This series of very practical and productive workbooks, one per grade, was published several years ago and has been updated, according to the cover blurb, 'to support the revised ABRSM sight-reading criteria' in the 2009 syllabus. With hundreds of fascinating, short character pieces it is an inexhaustible resource for lessons - and delightful music in its own right. Helpful tips and tricks will improve pupils' chances of gaining more marks in this bit of the exam, and this is an honest, well-designed, reasonably priced package. I would recommend its use outside the exam preparation period rather than at the last minute, because the skills picked up will help in every aspect of piano playing, aural perception and general musical awareness.

Piano Magazine, January 2009

ISBN: 9780571533022

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 159g

40 pages

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