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Topic: Piano sheet music that you think will help me become faster at reading bass clef  (Read 1491 times)

Offline arren31

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I want to practice getting faster at reading notes in the bass clef, and so I want to practice with sheet music that will help me with reading bass clef faster. What piano songs do you recommend that you think will help me become a faster bass clef sight reader?

Offline indianajo

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Aloys Schmitt, Exercises.  These are available for download from pianostreet, or I practiced off the G. Schirmer book.
I realize you don't want to hear this, and few teachers will tell you anymore for fear of losing their income.  
But a week of five minutes a day on some left hand exercise out of that book, you'll have it memorized, and know where the blobs on the staff are on the keyboard, too. The later exercises get your thumb off middle C.  
The first week of an exercise you play it semi-detached.  The second week you play legato. The third week you lay staccato.  I had these so memorized I used to read a novel at the same time I was doing them.  No matter, I got control of my 3,4,5 fingers, and learned where the white notes were at the same time.  I did these exercises over a year under my Mother's tutelage.
After that my college educated teacher put me through Edna Mae Berman exercises, a new one every week if I was successful at learning the point of it.  About five minutes a day usualy sufficed.  
My last year or 18 months I did Czerny School of Velocity, book 1 in the Boston edition. 
 

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