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300 Progressive Sight Reading Exercises for Piano Large Print Version: Part One of Two, Exercises 1-150 (Volume 1)
300 Progressive Sight Reading Exercises for Piano Large Print Version Part One of Two Exercises 1150 - Volume 1 Author:Robert Anthony Volume One is comprised of 300 progressive eight-bar exercises that train reading skills for both hands equally: Half of the pieces emphasize the right hand, the other half emphasize the left. The first 32 exercises isolate the hands while the remaining exercises combine them. For most of the exercises, the de-emphasized hand stays within a sing... more »le five-finger position. Time signatures include 4/4 (Common Time), 3/4, 2/4, 6/8, and 2/2 (Cut Time). For the Large Print Version, the 300 exercises are broken down into two books. Part One contains exercises 1-150 and Part Two contains exercises 151-300. This entire first volume is in C Major or its relative modes. There are no key signatures, sharps, or flats. While these concepts will be covered in future volumes, this book has been designed unlike any other sight reading book for piano that I have encountered in that it trains both hands to play well beyond a simple five-finger position and it gets fairly detailed in the rhythms and time signatures used. Finger numbers have been intentionally excluded from the 300 exercises in order to train the piano player to be able to find their own fingering solutions. While this book is intended to train sight-reading skills, it may also be used by beginners or those new to reading to acquire reading skills. It starts at a very basic level and adds a new note, rhythm, or concept every couple of pages and thoroughly reinforces them throughout the rest of the book. Though this is not a method book, some fundamental pages on scales and rhythms have been included for convenience. The scale pages are the only place in this book where finger numbers have been included. Finally, I have made the staff font slightly larger than standard. While this will largely go unnoticed in the printed version of this book, it should make the electronic versions significantly easier to read.« less