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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?

Regards
Richard

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evitaevita

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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

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