SKU: BT.FORFLH03
SKU: BT.FORFLH04
English.
SKU: BT.MUSRHG526
ISBN 9781780381190. English.
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 (with Vocals by Kate Johnson and Piano by Harriet Power). The Sight Reading Success books are ideal for independent use by students of all ages. These books are a brilliant way for students of Piano to be guided through the fundamentals of sight-reading, a hugely important skill forall players of Piano. This Grade 2 book takes you through everything you need to prepare for this exam, from rhythm and tempo, dotted and tied notes, playing with both hands together and new keys. Towards the end of the book, you are presented with lots of pieces so that you can practise the techniques you've learned on your own. This practice is essential for Sight Reading Success and you can listen to each and every track on the CD provided to see how it's meant to sound. Written by experienced examiners and teachers, Sight Reading Success accurately reflects the style of the revised ABRSM tests. This also means that you will get some insider insight into the best ways to practise and prepare for the actual exam, as well as what to expect at the time.
SKU: ST.0150
ISBN 9790220201783.
Will deal with more difficult pulse divisions, greater detail in requirements of touch contrasts, octaves moving against arpeggios, scale figures against chords, more complexity in part-writing and antiphonal movement, melody in both hands above or below accompaniment shared by the hands on half or quarter beat, more artistic use of pedal required. Guided tests show how to read progressions of block harmony, to balance melodies in poper proportion, to recognise ornamental notes, cadences-inverted and decorated, and spot essentials. 12, 16, 32 bars.
SKU: ST.0147
ISBN 9790220201752.
Keys including sharps and flats, melodies with greater complexity of detail, broken chord figures, syncopations, part-writing and easy antiphonal movement of parts with independent phrasing between the hands, phrases beginning on quarter-beat, subdivisions of quaver in compound time, pedalling. Guided tests train eye to follow independent parts and gibe each its due time and tone value. 16-32 bars.
