Improve your sight-reading! A piece a week: Piano: Instrumental Tutor

The ABRSM sight-reading syllabus for Piano has been completely revised; effective from January 2009. This brand new edition of Paul Harris' 'Improve Your Sight Reading' series and international best-seller with over 350 000 copies sold is published to support these new requirements.

The ABRSM sight-reading syllabus for Piano has been completely revised; effective from January 2009. This brand new edition of Paul Harris' 'Improve Your Sight Reading' series and international best-seller with over 350 000 copies sold is published to support these new requirements.

More Graded Studies For Clarinet brings together Clarinet study repertoire spanning the entire spectrum of technique and providing a firm foundation for progress. Featuring core works from established Clarinet writers alongside specially composed studies by Paul Harris these comprehensive study collections apply the simultaneous Learning approach to instrumental technique. Two study books arranged in order of increasing difficulty according to carefully planned technical progression. The studies develop key aspects of style found in in repertoire from the 19th century onwards. Each study comes with a list ofSimultaneous Learning musical ingredients for players to explore in preperation for the music. Book One begins at elementary level and progresses to intermediate (approx. grades 1-5); Book Two takes the student from intermediate to advanced level (approx. grades 6-8). Paul Harris is one of the UK's most respected music teachers and educationalists known for his innovative Simultaneous Learning approach. He has over 600 publications to his name including the highly acclaimed Improve your teaching! Improve your sight-reading! Improve your aural! and Improve your practice! series. Harris writes frequently on music education and is in great demand as a workshop and seminar leader around the world.

Get the tools you need to express your musical ideas as you study scales arpeggios and their related theory all attributed to the prestigious Berklee College Of Music.Beginning with basic concepts and advancing tomore challenging ideas this invaluable tutorial will serve as a reference for many years to come. Discover chord progressions dynamics phrasing and other aspects of Piano technique that will transform your performances. Thecourse provides a solid foundation for advanced keyboard studies with exercises in all twelve keys that will help you to: Advance your performance skill and build fluency Increase your speed and agility atthe keyboard Internalise common chord patterns Improve your sight-reading skills Memorise new material in less time Improve your tone rhythm and sense of dynamics The onlineaudio provides all the examples and play-along tracks you will need. Suitable for piano students of all levels.

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.

Let your technique soar to new heights with eight solos and dozens of exercises tailor-made for intermediate and advanced drum players in pop funk and R&B!Improve your independence; find your groove in mixed meters; ace your rolls paradiddles and triplets; increase your sight-reading chops; and interpret big band and samba charts like a pro all while learning how to use these skills in real-life performance situations.The CD includes recorded demonstrations of dozens of musical examples.