Piano – Improve Your Sight-reading – Grade 2
£7.60
Improve your sight-reading! Piano Grade 2 (Elementary) is part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris, guaranteed to improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems by building up a complete picture of each piece, through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally by going solo with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This edition now includes supporting audio available online for students to check their performances against.
The Improve your sight-reading! series will help you improve your reading ability, and with numerous practice tests included, will ensure sight-reading success in graded exams.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Faber Music Limited, New edition (10 Sept. 2008) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 40 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0571533027 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0571533022 |
by Shirley
it’s for my son, and recommended by his piano teacher, it looks good so far, not difficult for him to follow, hope it improve the sight reading skills.
by Tom Burns
I went through this book as part of cleaning up some deficiencies in my sight reading prior to an ABRSM Grade 4 exam. It helped quite a lot. There is a very clear in progression as things are added in and the difficulty improves – it was very noticable when I wasn’t quite able to nail something first time.
For this book I recommend practicing each piece until good, or timebox to 5 mins rather than “rationing” the pieces to go back later once you’ve forgotten them.
by Mel
Great book that builds up gradually and builds yo exam standard. Have used other grades before and not disappointed with this product. Would recommend
by sylvia
The book is missing pages! Page 4 with stage 1 and next page is number 13, stage 3.
by Martin S.
World progressively through the stages of sight reading. I am a teacher and this is a very good tool to use for improving my students sight reading. I will, however, use at least one more book to strengthen their sight reading as it is the most challenging aspect of classical graded exams to progress in…in my opinion.
by S Riaz
This is one of a series of books which take the piano exams from pre-Grade 1 all the way to Grade 8. Sight reading is an essential skill and these books help build up the skills needed for sight reading generally and in the exams. This book is for Grade 2 piano and includes rhythmic exercises, melodic exercises, prepared pieces and going solo and includes over 100 practice tests for the Associated Board exams. There are also a list of golden rules to help a child begin to play a piece at sight and what to do in the exam when performing a sight reading piece. This is a useful book to work through if your child finds sight reading difficult and will give them confidence and practice in tackling new pieces. Other books by this author included series on how to “Improve your aural!”, “Improve your practice!” “Improve your scales!” and even books aimed at instrumental and singing teachers to “Improve your teaching!”. I have never tried the other series, but certainly if your child has a weakness in any of those areas they are worth exploring as I have certainly found these Sight-Reading books very useful, and well laid out, indeed.
by Georgina79
I rarely bother to write reviews but this book is great! Now studying for Grade 3 piano I found myself still unable to read and play the grade 1 sight reading drills effectively.
I like the way this book breaks down the tasks of learning to read into rhythmic and melodic exercises with plenty of repetitive practice before gently increasing the difficulty. There are enough exercises at each stage to allow you to practice them repeatedly without simply remembering what they all were.
After about 6 weeks of a little daily practise with this book, I can already see an improvement and look forward to being able to move onto the next in the series.
by Margarita
As it says in sellers description- Like new , really happy about the quality .