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Topic: Books for sight reading?  (Read 17897 times)

Offline riwa

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Books for sight reading?
on: October 22, 2012, 01:19:26 PM
Im spending time every day with this. Reading random notes. But Im thinking I could improve faster with some help. So I thought theres maybe some good books on the subject? Something like big book of theory + a lot of practice notes.

Anyone has something like this that you can recommend?

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Richard

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Re: Books for sight reading?
Reply #1 on: October 22, 2012, 03:38:44 PM
Helllo Richard,

I found some sites which may be helpful. They contain sight-reading exercices that you can adjust to your level and needs.
https://www.soundswell.co.uk/pages/swsightr.htm
https://sightreading.com.au/free-examples.html
https://thesightreadingproject.com/home/

I also found these helpful:
https://anthonymaydwell.com/Faith%20Maydwell/images/SightReading.pdf
https://anthonymaydwell.com/PocoPianoOnline/SightReadingSkills.pdf

ABRSM offers progressive sight-reading tests:
https://shop.abrsm.org/shop/powersearch/powersearch_results.asp?deptid=100007&catid=100055

Alfred's Piano Courses:
https://www.alfred.com/Browse/Instruments/PianoKeyboard.aspx

Piano sight-reading from John Kember:
https://www.johnkember.com/sdxsig.htm

Furthermore, you can start sight-reading easy (easier than the pieces you play) and straightforward pieces and continue with more dificult ones.

Generally, I haven't tried any books sight-reading, so I can't give you more information about them.  :(

I hope I've been helpful,
Evitaevita
"I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have."
Arthur Rubinstein

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Re: Books for sight reading?
Reply #2 on: October 26, 2012, 01:54:00 AM
Wow. Great links. Thanks a lot :)
 

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