Sight-Reading Success

Piano Grade 5-Every book in the exciting new Sight Reading Success series features a wealth of expert and practical advice written by experienced examiners and teachers helping you to achieve triumph in your sight reading exams. Uniquely each book is accompanied by a CD providing much-needed guidance through each test and demonstrating how it should sound (with Vocals by Kate Johnson and Piano by Harriet Power). Sight Reading Success Grade 5 is ideal for independent use by students of all ages looking to gain confidence for the sight reading portion of their exams as well as pianists of any ability looking to improve their abilities atthis crucial skill.    The Sight Reading Success series is an exceptional way for Piano students to be taken through the fundamentals of sight reading. The Grade 5 book features an overview of topics like advanced keys and key signatures more developed musical terms and signs and more advanced rhythmic devices and techniques. At the conclusion of the book lots of new pieces are provided so that you can practise your sight reading and gain invaluable experience with attempting to sight read. The CD allows you to listen to each track and therefore make sure you are getting it 100% correct 100% of the time.   Written by experienced and authoritative examiners and teachers the Sight Reading Success books accurately reflect the style of the revised ABRSM tests. This means you will obtain some valuable and trustworthy insight for the exam giving you the confidence you need for when you sit the exam itself.    For the best possible preparation and efficient and effective practice for the sight reading exam Sight Reading Success For Piano Grade 5 is a comprehensive and complete guide to getting you that great grade on your sight reading exam.

Each book in the Sight Reading Success series has been written by expert examiners to reflect the style of the revised ABRSM tests helping your students to tackle the sight reading exam with confidence and poise.Uniquely each book is accompanied by a CD providing guidance through each test and demonstrating how it should sound (Vocals by Kate Johnson and Piano by Harriet Power). These books are therefore ideal for independent use and study by students of all ages as well as other pianists who desire to improve their ability at this fundamental skill. Sight Reading Success takes the reader throughvarious fundamental concepts to sight-reading such as more advanced fingering compound time signatures starting on an upbeat more difficult keys and key signatures while concluding the book with practice scores allowing you to play and practise what you've just learned. Not only this but the accompanying CD lets you listen to how these should sound so you can test yourself over again making sure you can get them exactly right.   Written by experienced examiners and teachers Sight Reading Success accurately reflects the style of the revised ABRSM tests. This Grade 4 book will cover everything you will need to know for that exam also giving you some really useful tips for most effective practise and what to expect in the exam itself.   The Piano Grade 4 Sight Reading Success book provides a great amount of detail for everything that could be asked in the sight reading exam. For the best possible preparation from a truly thorough and authoritative guide that will put you on the best path to passing check out Sight Reading Success.

Each book in the exciting new Sight Reading Success series contains expert advice and a series of practice tests that will help your students to tackle the sight reading element of their Piano exams with confidence. Uniquely each book is accompanied by a CD providing guidance through each test and demonstrating how it should sound (Voice by Kate Johnson Piano by Harriet Power). The books are ideal for independent use by students of all ages as well as any other pianists who wish to improve their ability at such an essential skill for Piano playing.    Sight Reading Success graduallytakes the reader through various concepts that are essential to sight-reading like rhythm pitch tempo note types and different key signatures while also providing practice scores to illustrate these ideas so that you can play through music and test yourself against the accompanying CD. Written by experienced examiners and teachers the Sight Reading Success series accurately reflects the style of the revised ABRSM tests. This book will cover all the basics that you need to know for the Grade One exam and then gives you some helpful tips for practising and what to expect when you actually get into the exam.    For the best preparation to achieve Grade One Sight Reading Success this book is a truly thorough and authoritative guide that will put you well on your way to passing that exam.

Improve Your Sight-Reading! Grade 2 is part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris guaranteed to improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems by building up a complete picture of each piece through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions and finally ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously-graded sight-reading pieces. This new edition has been completely re-written with new exercises and pieces to support the Associated Board's new sight-reading requirements from 2009. Improve YourSight-Reading! will help you improve your reading ability and with numerous practice tests included will ensure sight-reading success in graded exams.

Improve Your Sight-Reading! Grade 4 is part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris guaranteed to improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems by building up a complete picture of each piece through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions and finally ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously-graded sight-reading pieces. This new edition has been completely re-written with new exercises and pieces to support the Associated Board's new sight-reading requirements from 2009. Improve YourSight-Reading! will help you improve your reading ability and with numerous practice tests included will ensure sight-reading success in graded exams.

This book of pieces aims to establish good practice and provide an early introduction to the essential skill of sight-reading. In Part 1 the basic keys of C, G, F and D major and A and D minor are explored while keeping to movement limited to steps, skips and repeated notes in a 5-note range. / Partition /

How To Blitz! Sight Reading Book 1 presents five sight reading concepts and a test in each of its 10 levels. Suitable for ABRSM and Trinity College London Piano Grades 1 & 2 by the end of Level 10 studentswill be well on the way to 'blitzing' the sight reading section of their piano exam but most importantly they'll be having lots of fun along the way! Written by leading piano educator Samantha Coates and the director ofAustralian Music Schools Michelle Madder  How To Blitz! Sight Reading features ten levels with tests brilliant exam hints as well as key stickers and self rating systems - never before has there beensuch a fun sight reading book that actually makes students want to sight read. The BlitzBooks series has inspired thousands of young musicians to master music theory and sight reading. SamanthaCoates created BlitzBooks to be easy to teach and engaging for students. First published in November 2000 it has become the bestselling music textbook series in Australia and is now available inspecially designed versions for the main UK exam boards. Michelle Madder is the founder and director of Australian Music Schools where she has developed and published highly successful music courses for pre-schoolersthrough to adults. Samantha and Michelle have worked together for over 25 years and are both passionate about teaching the best way to develop sight reading skills.

New Edition-Firmly rooted in Paul Harris?s Simultaneous Learning approach this new edition of Improve your sight-reading! Flute Grades 1-3 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-reading. Step by step you will build up a complete picture of each piece firstly through rhythmic melodic and technical exercises then by studying prepared pieces and finally ?going solo? with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This new edition of the best-selling Improve your sight-reading! contains completely new material throughout and has been brought up to date to match the latest ABRSM sight-readingcriteria.

Firmly rooted in Paul Harris’s Simultaneous Learning approach this new edition of Improve your sight-reading! Clarinet Grades 6-8 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-reading. Step by step you will build up a complete picture of each piece firstly through rhythmic melodic and technical exercises then by studying prepared pieces and finally ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces.This new edition of the best-selling Improve your sight-reading! contains completely new material throughout and has been brought up to date to match the latest ABRSMsight-reading criteria.

Now more than ever the ability to sight-read fluently is an essential part of the training of musicians on an instrument. This workbook is designed to help overcome the nerves that can cause sight-reading problems by giving sound technical advice and confidence boosting tips. Step-by-step it helps the violinist to build up a complete picture of each piece first through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific problems then by the study of prepared piece with associated questions for the student to answer and finally to the real unprepared sight-reading test itself. Check-boxes for each stage allow both teacher and pupil to keep an eye on progress.Thenew editions of this popular series supports the new ABRSM string syllabus requirements from 2012 ensuring success in the sight-reading tests of graded exams.

Now more than ever the ability to sight-read fluently is an essential part of the training of musicians on an instrument. This workbook is designed to help overcome the nerves that can cause sight-reading problems by giving sound technical advice and confidence boosting tips. Step-by-step it helps the violinist to build up a complete picture of each piece first through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific problems then by the study of prepared piece with associated questions for the student to answer and finally to the real unprepared sight-reading test itself. Check-boxes for each stage allow both teacher and pupil to keep an eye on progress.Thenew editions of this popular series supports the new ABRSM string syllabus requirements from 2012 ensuring success in the sight-reading tests of graded exams.

A Piece A Week Piano Grade 2 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve Your Sight-Reading! graded Piano books to support and improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun short pieces are specifically written to be learnt one per week. By continually reading accessible new repertoire the crucial processing of information and hand-eye coordination are established and improved developing confident sight-reading.The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill enabling students to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series by renownededucationalist Paul Harris is designed to develop sight-reading skills especially in the context of graded exams.