So many people have emailed me over the years asking for good sight-reading resources and books. I just discovered a new one that I really like. I hope this helps you in your studies!
Mister Josh Wright, Sir, I am 52 years old and have started playing the piano when I was 38. Yet I managed to play Preludes and Fuges of Bach's amongst smaller pieces like Suite Bergamasque from Claude Debussy and a few others, but because I have that ability to memorise almost instantaniously any notes I would have to rend, I almost missed learning sight-reading. Whatsoever, I haven't been playing for at least 6 years now, and wanting to start again I felt very uncomfortable because of this lack of sight-reading. Since I discovered your channel my practice is getting better and I feel grateful to learning from you. Thank you very very much. You are, I think, an example for many of younger an older people out there through your humility and talent, and vice versa. (As I am frensh, my English might not be the best, so I beg you pardon for any faults and errors troughout this message). Best regards, Lionel
I just got the book today. Today I learned my sight reading is dreadful. I can play the Friska of Hungarian rhapsody 2, but I can barely sightread the first grade level. That’s something I’m working to resolve now. Thanks, Josh for promoting it, and thanks Cory for making it.
@@BCBeastiality to be frank this book's first grade is too difficult if you're trash at sight reading or a new pianist, you're better off picking an early level of Faber Piano Adventures Sightreading book and working through that. I started at level 2 and by the end of level 3 you're done. Takes a few months. In saying that, this book is appealing because as Josh said it's standard repertoire. You're not learning Bach with Piano Adventures.
I'm a new subscriber, in my mid-sixties and only started piano about 5 years ago and I struggle with sight reading. (With practice, muscle memory kicks in but I forget to watch the notes and read.) I also can't simultaneously read the treble and bass clefs. What helps me is to first eye-read each note across each line --- plus say if it's a sharp or flat note. Another struggle is NOT to look down at the keyboard because I find I'll lose my spot in the piece. For some all of these may come easy but learning to play across 88 keys, read notes on the page, getting your brain to learn each note, fingers to the right location, fighting some difficult notations (1-e-and-ah, 1-and, 1-and-ah). Thanks for reading....
Thanks Josh I joined piano marvel after your video last May and discover this book shortly after. The combination is powerful. I have systematically worked through the book every day since last August and have gone from really struggling to looking and reading 2 voice counterpoint to starting grade 6 which is 3 part harmony. I love the way this book builds confidence and lays a solid foundation for sight reading any material. The music makes it a real pleasure to sight read.
I haven’t used sight reading and harmony on piano marvel. I work from the digital pdf version. I believe it hasn’t yet been released on piano marvel. I was just thanking Josh for his recommendations as I have found piano marvel very useful for sight reading and working on pieces.
BachScholar is Bach! Brilliant video, Josh 👏Josh Wright,Rousseau,Paul Barton and BachScholar👏 The Four Piano Geniuses On TH-cam! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 I recommend everyone to subscribe to their channels👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
also don't miss to subscribe to Seymour Bernstein's (the author of in my opinion two of the most recommandable teaching books: "Keyboard-Choreography, 20 Lessons..." and "With your own Two Hands") channel.
I bought the Sight-reading and Harmony book. Although I've only had the book for a few days I must say that I'm very disappointed with the lack of fingering on most of the 3- and 4-part material. Dr. Hall omits it deliberately because he says students' hands and fingers differ, resulting in different fingerings. However, it would have been very useful to have been told what typical fingering is used, even though individual students might decide to alter it. I'm trying to play Bach's Common Cadences and find the absence of fingering really frustrating. Even when I work out a possible fingering sequence, I don't know if it's correct.
@@mrbeezkeez1599 I disagree. It seems reasonable to me for fingering to be included. The Suzuki series of study books includes fingering where they think it will help and it is very useful.
Josh could you do a video on how to challenge yourself as a piano player while at the same time not frustrating yourself so that the player can improve at a stable pace.(basically how to improve efficiently) I know you made a video on how to choose pieces but how should we find the piece and how to we know if it will be a challenge for us.
Josh..I love To have Bach and Phillip Emanuel Bach.. Not an expert player. I have been working On a similar concept, for my own personal studies on jazz songs like Donna Lee. The most advanced songs can be taught if a little extra is introduced every week. These would have to be constantly reviewed and the theory updated. Of course working with older material allows us to copy ..say Bach, Beethoven etc, and totally legal.. I may have done Minuet in G in midi programs like Score Creator or Maestro , ( both free programs). Writing music in programs like this has accelerated my progress. Additionally I train in a free app called Free Music Flash Cards. The weakness for many me and other readers is /was the bass F clef. Also my weakness used to be sayings like Ever good boy.. and cows eating grass. When I dropped these sayings and just say GBDFA and ACEG. I was 3 times faster as I kept a progress book. Gotta go. Btw. I just realized that I had not rang the bell. I'll try to check in every so often. I'll consider buying the book.
I bought this when it first came out. Opened it up, thought it was way too complicated for my level and put it away. I'll pull it out again based on your comments.
Same. I did pull it out yesterday. Still same. ETA -sorry not sure why the comment posted multiple times. I’ve got a tech issue with the mouse I think!
Thank you very much for this recommendation. I was looking exactly for a book like this that would help me improve my sight-reading skills. Your channel is amazing!
Is there a youtube video that has the visual to confirm you are playing it correctly. I used the paul harris site reading book but when i got to the more advanced section was not sure if i was playing it correctly
Greg Satellitetechguy - i think the videos are on the website ‘well rounded pianist’. I got to the grade 5 Paul Harris having done the ABRSM SR books too. Somehow it just hadn’t added to my skill set much at all. Just a trudge through small exercises in various keys. Not enough time to consolidate I think. I’m reading more broadly now. It’s a tough gig learning to sight read when you’ve been a memoriser!
Seems like a really helpful book, and I would love to buy it. Would I be buying the book or an online download? If it's the latter, I like to see actual paper when I sight-read, not the screen of an ipad or computer, sorry. Can't mark up the page if it's digital.
I have a question for you Josh. Say you perform a scale, the length of the piano, both directions, what is the minimum requirement i.e. nbr of times, would you say to attain a good finger dexterity(if thats the right word), so your fingers are comfortable? E.g. would 10 times be evidence your fingers can achieve a basic pianism? Would you say 53 times be evidence your fingers can achieve a basic pianism? Pick any number really. Have musical lecturers decided or is it not something that is advocated? And the scales have to be reasonably fast because common sense suggests playing slow you could last forever. Being a pianist is like an athlete for sports. Or can be if you choose that for your playing. *pianism ( i was meaning at a high level, not truly virtuosic but can play at the standard level of performing classical music without gripes from people)
Many of you asked about this - If you'd like the hard copy (spiral-bound), here's a link to purchase it on Amazon (unfortunately the discounts don't apply on the hard copy due to manufacturing costs): amzn.to/2YB7Gf1
yeah, me to! Shipping cost are insane and book itself is not cheap. Printable pdf version would be solution for us. Unprintable pdf version is useless for me. .
It is a great resource for developing reading and is particularly appreciated because it presents progressively graded material that is consistently good musically and even at the simpler end has interesting and pleasing harmonies. That said, I've hit a wall and am unsure how to proceed. The wall I've hit is that I can sight read all the pieces with two voices at once with very good accuracy and at a decent tempo, yet when I try to move to these pieces with three voices at once I struggle so much that I can only manage them if I sight read them at a trudgingly slow tempo. I am unsure of two things: 1) what development/s happen that allow someone to go from reading 2 voices at once to handling 3 at once (and how I get them); 2) if my best course of action is to stay with 2 voice pieces despite that I handle them very well already, or to instead keep chipping away at the 3 voice pieces at the awful slow tempo I need to go to in order to manage them - I suspect the latter makes more sense as it allows practicing the specific thing I'm struggling with but welcome any advice.
Hi Roman, I wonder how you're getting on with the Bach Scholar book now? I hit the wall constantly with it too and admire your perseverance. I am doing other things for now and will return to it in the future. It will one day be amazing for hand independence, but not yet...
@@TheSIGHTREADINGProject Still struggling with the 3 voice pieces, but making sure I do other stuff to sort my reading out at the same time. Stumbled on something that seemed to make a noticeable difference in sight reading 2 voices at once: oddly enough it was to sight read 1 voice at a time but at a massively increased tempo. Did it in Sight Reading Factory with randomly generated pieces in a range of key and time signatures, lots of examples in one stave, then in the other, at breakneck speed, for an hour. Then when I returned to 2 voice sight reading at usual tempo, I had improved noticeably, both in objective results measuring and in my own subjective feeling whilst reading (I noticed I was looking ahead more, presumably because the high speed reading I had been doing the previous hour had absolutely demanded that I did so!). Worth a try if you're a SRF user or have access to something similar, not sure how you'd accomplish the same without procedurally generated sheet music (unless you have access to 6843908643684390864390 sheets at the right level!). Anyhow, still didn't break that 3 voice wall with SR&H, still bashing my head against it to see if it I can bust through - but definitely supplementing with other reading stuff at the same time so that if busting that wall needs something else to happen elsewhere I'm in a position to find a suitable sledgehammer ;)
Roman Blanks - Wow, well done though. It’s such a long process isn’t it! Really interesting to see about your use of sight reading factory. I keep meaning to look at that. Well, all the best with it all. I think the better our reading gets, the more wonderful music we will be able to explore and devour in our lifetimes compared to if we’d never decided to hit this. I see it as taking the time out now to enjoy huge benefits in the future (hopefully!) 👍
@@TheSIGHTREADINGProject It is a very lengthy and gradual process that is mostly neglected even by taught pianists let alone those self-learning. As an auto-didact with great ears and hands, I'm hugely guilty of that neglect of sight-reading; I got to be able to play lots of complicated rags and concert level pieces without ever reading - let alone sight-reading - any sheet music or having lessons. But I came to realise my memory can only hold so many pieces in it - and only for so long without constant maintainence - and being good at reading lets you quickly get stuff back in there, so I should no longer dodge it and instead I'm now working on fixing it in a quite committed and systematic way (still without any teacher ever) :D. I'm glad you replied here because I'd not seen your channel before that and from seeing your channel you are doing quite a similar undertaking that I am (and may I say it is super-refreshing to find sight reading videos from someone who isn't a wizard sight reader already - it allows for sharing experiences that the wizard sight readers have probably forgotten going through!), so I've insta-subscribed. You're right, it is an investment for future benefit. We will get there, keep motivated.
Roman Blanks - oh my goodness, yes! What you said about finding your memory could only hold so many pieces and maintaining being more difficult without reading skills. Same here! I was at such a low point after my grade 6 and those pieces were in tatters so soon after learning them, yet the reading being far ahead of my skill I couldn’t bear to maintain them while I learned Moon River (no time) and then they were gone! Too far gone to face. You’re right about it not necessarily being taught. I asked for help and time to focus on it from my teacher (I constantly couldn’t start at the bar she asked for in lesson) and was told it was not good use of time in lesson so I should do it at home. But with the constant expectation of progress in repertoire on me (taking up all my time because of being a bad reader!) I made zero progress despite snatching time at those Harris books every day. Well, it all fell apart November 2018 and I got upset in lesson when I once again constantly couldn’t jump in at ‘bar so and so’. I left lesson and just could not go back and face it again. Total block. And I miss my teacher, by the way, no hard feelings! So I really believe that like you said, as the pieces get harder, if the sight reading hasn’t come up with the student reading music, this kind of despondency we both came to, might be the death knell for many a students piano studies, if they think that it is just them as opposed to a fixable issue, reading. Well, this has been an awesome conversation! Very cathartic!! Nice to find someone going through the same.
@@tyrionlennister1020I'll keep it in mind. I'm not sure I can commit to buying this at the moment however. It looks like a great resource, I just question how readable it'd be for me without some effort circumventing the printless pdf or different screens from what I have.
@@gwojcieszczuk like we've all got that! ( Or even know what it means). This is all too hard. It sounds wonderful and to have but I prefer paper scores so will stick with what I have. I pick up old 2nd hand books at music sales etc for sight reading. Some become nice pieces to learn and use for warming up or relaxing before bed, just easy stuff. I like Cory Hall and love Bach. Never mind.
The discount does not work... "This discount does not apply to any products in your cart." with "Sight-Reading & Harmony (Complete Edition)" in my cart.
All you do is sight read ANY piece of music. If a musician judges a piece of music to be poor you become a bad musician. Be like jesus christ. Love your composers, the so called enemies of what you think harmony and melodies should be like. On top of sight reading use franz liszt technical exercises.
the absolute best part about this book is that it's in a SPIRAL!!! YESS WE NEED MORE OF THIS FOR SHEET MUSIC!!!
So many people have emailed me over the years asking for good sight-reading resources and books. I just discovered a new one that I really like. I hope this helps you in your studies!
Just ordered! Thank you very much for sharing this information.
Just ordered. thanks for sharing.
Mister Josh Wright, Sir, I am 52 years old and have started playing the piano when I was 38. Yet I managed to play Preludes and Fuges of Bach's amongst smaller pieces like Suite Bergamasque from Claude Debussy and a few others, but because I have that ability to memorise almost instantaniously any notes I would have to rend, I almost missed learning sight-reading. Whatsoever, I haven't been playing for at least 6 years now, and wanting to start again I felt very uncomfortable because of this lack of sight-reading. Since I discovered your channel my practice is getting better and I feel grateful to learning from you. Thank you very very much. You are, I think, an example for many of younger an older people out there through your humility and talent, and vice versa. (As I am frensh, my English might not be the best, so I beg you pardon for any faults and errors troughout this message). Best regards, Lionel
Thanks for this.
But, unrelated, what are the two coloured marks on your keyboard?
Was the code a limited offer? i tried the discount FJW, but it said that this wouldn't apply to the book (tried to buy the PDF version)
I just got the book today.
Today I learned my sight reading is dreadful.
I can play the Friska of Hungarian rhapsody 2, but I can barely sightread the first grade level.
That’s something I’m working to resolve now.
Thanks, Josh for promoting it, and thanks Cory for making it.
Im going thru the same thing :-/
How did you manage? Any progress?
@@BCBeastiality to be frank this book's first grade is too difficult if you're trash at sight reading or a new pianist, you're better off picking an early level of Faber Piano Adventures Sightreading book and working through that. I started at level 2 and by the end of level 3 you're done. Takes a few months. In saying that, this book is appealing because as Josh said it's standard repertoire. You're not learning Bach with Piano Adventures.
Hey! How’s your sight reading now? Did it sync with your ability? I’m in the same boat now lol.
pianomarvel is amazing. thank you so much. i found your video at the perfect time.
I'm a new subscriber, in my mid-sixties and only started piano about 5 years ago and I struggle with sight reading. (With practice, muscle memory kicks in but I forget to watch the notes and read.) I also can't simultaneously read the treble and bass clefs. What helps me is to first eye-read each note across each line --- plus say if it's a sharp or flat note. Another struggle is NOT to look down at the keyboard because I find I'll lose my spot in the piece. For some all of these may come easy but learning to play across 88 keys, read notes on the page, getting your brain to learn each note, fingers to the right location, fighting some difficult notations (1-e-and-ah, 1-and, 1-and-ah). Thanks for reading....
Thanks Josh I joined piano marvel after your video last May and discover this book shortly after. The combination is powerful. I have systematically worked through the book every day since last August and have gone from really struggling to looking and reading 2 voice counterpoint to starting grade 6 which is 3 part harmony. I love the way this book builds confidence and lays a solid foundation for sight reading any material. The music makes it a real pleasure to sight read.
Dan Elms how do you launch this book within piano marvel?
I haven’t used sight reading and harmony on piano marvel. I work from the digital pdf version. I believe it hasn’t yet been released on piano marvel. I was just thanking Josh for his recommendations as I have found piano marvel very useful for sight reading and working on pieces.
We have just started adding this book onto Piano Marvel! :)
This couldn't have come at a better time.
that added third voice is even more stunning than the addition of the other voices. Three sections of orchestra over those three voices, . Sublime.
This is so cool to see - I just got the digital version of this book a couple months back and it's really great!
I bought it today, it is an incredible work!
I'm 39 and just starting piano again after a decade off...def going to get this. Btw your channel has been super helpful and practical.
BachScholar is Bach!
Brilliant video, Josh
👏Josh Wright,Rousseau,Paul Barton and BachScholar👏
The Four Piano Geniuses On TH-cam!
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I recommend everyone to subscribe to their channels👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
also don't miss to subscribe to Seymour Bernstein's (the author of in my opinion two of the most recommandable teaching books: "Keyboard-Choreography, 20 Lessons..." and "With your own Two Hands") channel.
I bought the Sight-reading and Harmony book. Although I've only had the book for a few days I must say that I'm very disappointed with the lack of fingering on most of the 3- and 4-part material. Dr. Hall omits it deliberately because he says students' hands and fingers differ, resulting in different fingerings. However, it would have been very useful to have been told what typical fingering is used, even though individual students might decide to alter it. I'm trying to play Bach's Common Cadences and find the absence of fingering really frustrating. Even when I work out a possible fingering sequence, I don't know if it's correct.
@@mrbeezkeez1599 I disagree. It seems reasonable to me for fingering to be included. The Suzuki series of study books includes fingering where they think it will help and it is very useful.
I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE
Josh could you do a video on how to challenge yourself as a piano player while at the same time not frustrating yourself so that the player can improve at a stable pace.(basically how to improve efficiently) I know you made a video on how to choose pieces but how should we find the piece and how to we know if it will be a challenge for us.
Amazing, Cory Hall! 🎹🎹🎼🎼
Josh..I love To have Bach and Phillip Emanuel Bach.. Not an expert player. I have been working
On a similar concept, for my own personal studies on jazz songs like Donna Lee. The most advanced songs can be taught if
a little extra is introduced every week. These would have to be constantly reviewed and the theory updated. Of course working with older material allows us to
copy ..say Bach, Beethoven etc, and totally legal.. I may have done
Minuet in G in midi programs like Score Creator or Maestro , ( both free programs). Writing music in programs like this has accelerated
my progress. Additionally I train in a free app called Free Music Flash Cards. The weakness for many me and other readers is /was the bass F clef. Also my weakness used to be sayings like Ever good boy.. and cows eating grass. When I dropped these sayings and
just say GBDFA and ACEG. I was 3 times faster as I kept a progress book. Gotta go. Btw. I just realized that I had not rang the bell. I'll try to check in every so often. I'll consider buying the book.
i like some of you bought this book but after this video from josh going to start using it ;)
I bought this when it first came out. Opened it up, thought it was way too complicated for my level and put it away. I'll pull it out again based on your comments.
Same. I did pull it out yesterday. Still same.
ETA -sorry not sure why the comment posted multiple times. I’ve got a tech issue with the mouse I think!
Same. I did pull it out yesterday. Still same.
Great channel Josh. Thanks for sharing that.
Thank you very much for this recommendation. I was looking exactly for a book like this that would help me improve my sight-reading skills. Your channel is amazing!
LOVE THIS thanks Josh!
I am hell in love with your intro 😣
I just finished decyphering a Bach chorale and can confirme, two pages required a whole month of work (i'm a very bad reader btw)
Is it similar to Microcosmos? Bartok's graded 6 part series.
It does not look like it is.
Could you recommend a music theory book that is practical in that it could help to understand the structure of Bach and other classical music?
This is like what every piano student has been looking for since the dawn of time.
Wow, that must have taken him forever! I would love to have some of my students do this!
Thank you for this recommendation!!!
My favorite channel
Is there a youtube video that has the visual to confirm you are playing it correctly. I used the paul harris site reading book but when i got to the more advanced section was not sure if i was playing it correctly
Greg Satellitetechguy - i think the videos are on the website ‘well rounded pianist’. I got to the grade 5 Paul Harris having done the ABRSM SR books too. Somehow it just hadn’t added to my skill set much at all. Just a trudge through small exercises in various keys. Not enough time to consolidate I think. I’m reading more broadly now. It’s a tough gig learning to sight read when you’ve been a memoriser!
Omd you are my angel!!
Great tip, thank you!
Seems like a really helpful book, and I would love to buy it. Would I be buying the book or an online download? If it's the latter, I like to see actual paper when I sight-read, not the screen of an ipad or computer, sorry. Can't mark up the page if it's digital.
wow such great advertisement, good ad, not bad ad, I like ad, ad is good
Superb share, thank you...
Thanks Josh!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!
I have a question for you Josh.
Say you perform a scale, the length of the piano, both directions, what is the minimum requirement i.e. nbr of times, would you say to attain a good finger dexterity(if thats the right word), so your fingers are comfortable?
E.g. would 10 times be evidence your fingers can achieve a basic pianism?
Would you say 53 times be evidence your fingers can achieve a basic pianism?
Pick any number really. Have musical lecturers decided or is it not something that is advocated?
And the scales have to be reasonably fast because common sense suggests playing slow you could last forever. Being a pianist is like an athlete for sports. Or can be if you choose that for your playing.
*pianism ( i was meaning at a high level, not truly virtuosic but can play at the standard level of performing classical music without gripes from people)
Many of you asked about this - If you'd like the hard copy (spiral-bound), here's a link to purchase it on Amazon (unfortunately the discounts don't apply on the hard copy due to manufacturing costs): amzn.to/2YB7Gf1
Thanks, this video is really helpful
This is fantastic! I wonder how long it took him to do this.
Kudos to both of you!
Just a quick question, how can i find pieces that are on my level and that i can play?
Which sight reading edition are you using in this video.
Thank you.
I recently wanted to order the book. I live in Holland (Europe) and had to pay $62,50 shipping costs! (I resigned).
yeah, me to! Shipping cost are insane and book itself is not cheap. Printable pdf version would be solution for us. Unprintable pdf version is useless for me. .
Es wäre so nice, wenn es eine deutsche Version von dem Buch geben würde…
It Would be so nice if would exist an german version from the Book…
It is a great resource for developing reading and is particularly appreciated because it presents progressively graded material that is consistently good musically and even at the simpler end has interesting and pleasing harmonies. That said, I've hit a wall and am unsure how to proceed. The wall I've hit is that I can sight read all the pieces with two voices at once with very good accuracy and at a decent tempo, yet when I try to move to these pieces with three voices at once I struggle so much that I can only manage them if I sight read them at a trudgingly slow tempo.
I am unsure of two things: 1) what development/s happen that allow someone to go from reading 2 voices at once to handling 3 at once (and how I get them); 2) if my best course of action is to stay with 2 voice pieces despite that I handle them very well already, or to instead keep chipping away at the 3 voice pieces at the awful slow tempo I need to go to in order to manage them - I suspect the latter makes more sense as it allows practicing the specific thing I'm struggling with but welcome any advice.
Hi Roman, I wonder how you're getting on with the Bach Scholar book now? I hit the wall constantly with it too and admire your perseverance. I am doing other things for now and will return to it in the future. It will one day be amazing for hand independence, but not yet...
@@TheSIGHTREADINGProject Still struggling with the 3 voice pieces, but making sure I do other stuff to sort my reading out at the same time. Stumbled on something that seemed to make a noticeable difference in sight reading 2 voices at once: oddly enough it was to sight read 1 voice at a time but at a massively increased tempo. Did it in Sight Reading Factory with randomly generated pieces in a range of key and time signatures, lots of examples in one stave, then in the other, at breakneck speed, for an hour. Then when I returned to 2 voice sight reading at usual tempo, I had improved noticeably, both in objective results measuring and in my own subjective feeling whilst reading (I noticed I was looking ahead more, presumably because the high speed reading I had been doing the previous hour had absolutely demanded that I did so!). Worth a try if you're a SRF user or have access to something similar, not sure how you'd accomplish the same without procedurally generated sheet music (unless you have access to 6843908643684390864390 sheets at the right level!). Anyhow, still didn't break that 3 voice wall with SR&H, still bashing my head against it to see if it I can bust through - but definitely supplementing with other reading stuff at the same time so that if busting that wall needs something else to happen elsewhere I'm in a position to find a suitable sledgehammer ;)
Roman Blanks - Wow, well done though. It’s such a long process isn’t it! Really interesting to see about your use of sight reading factory. I keep meaning to look at that. Well, all the best with it all. I think the better our reading gets, the more wonderful music we will be able to explore and devour in our lifetimes compared to if we’d never decided to hit this. I see it as taking the time out now to enjoy huge benefits in the future (hopefully!) 👍
@@TheSIGHTREADINGProject It is a very lengthy and gradual process that is mostly neglected even by taught pianists let alone those self-learning. As an auto-didact with great ears and hands, I'm hugely guilty of that neglect of sight-reading; I got to be able to play lots of complicated rags and concert level pieces without ever reading - let alone sight-reading - any sheet music or having lessons. But I came to realise my memory can only hold so many pieces in it - and only for so long without constant maintainence - and being good at reading lets you quickly get stuff back in there, so I should no longer dodge it and instead I'm now working on fixing it in a quite committed and systematic way (still without any teacher ever) :D. I'm glad you replied here because I'd not seen your channel before that and from seeing your channel you are doing quite a similar undertaking that I am (and may I say it is super-refreshing to find sight reading videos from someone who isn't a wizard sight reader already - it allows for sharing experiences that the wizard sight readers have probably forgotten going through!), so I've insta-subscribed. You're right, it is an investment for future benefit. We will get there, keep motivated.
Roman Blanks - oh my goodness, yes! What you said about finding your memory could only hold so many pieces and maintaining being more difficult without reading skills. Same here! I was at such a low point after my grade 6 and those pieces were in tatters so soon after learning them, yet the reading being far ahead of my skill I couldn’t bear to maintain them while I learned Moon River (no time) and then they were gone! Too far gone to face.
You’re right about it not necessarily being taught. I asked for help and time to focus on it from my teacher (I constantly couldn’t start at the bar she asked for in lesson) and was told it was not good use of time in lesson so I should do it at home. But with the constant expectation of progress in repertoire on me (taking up all my time because of being a bad reader!) I made zero progress despite snatching time at those Harris books every day. Well, it all fell apart November 2018 and I got upset in lesson when I once again constantly couldn’t jump in at ‘bar so and so’. I left lesson and just could not go back and face it again. Total block. And I miss my teacher, by the way, no hard feelings! So I really believe that like you said, as the pieces get harder, if the sight reading hasn’t come up with the student reading music, this kind of despondency we both came to, might be the death knell for many a students piano studies, if they think that it is just them as opposed to a fixable issue, reading.
Well, this has been an awesome conversation! Very cathartic!! Nice to find someone going through the same.
Thanks to Cory for fleshing out 5 different levels for each of these! And Thanks Josh!
Sir book link ..or how to buy this 📚
Hey josh,
Could you explain how to use this book? I tead the introduction but still dont know what to do
I like bach scholar he's ny go to for chopin op 10 no 4 reference
Printless pdf is annoying. I'll have to see how it works out eventually regardless.
Can you tell me when you tried it?
@@tyrionlennister1020I'll keep it in mind. I'm not sure I can commit to buying this at the moment however. It looks like a great resource, I just question how readable it'd be for me without some effort circumventing the printless pdf or different screens from what I have.
What does printless actually mean? A copyright that disables printing or is the site Format unprintable?
It can be printed under Linux using Document Viewer; running on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop edition.
@@gwojcieszczuk like we've all got that! ( Or even know what it means). This is all too hard. It sounds wonderful and to have but I prefer paper scores so will stick with what I have. I pick up old 2nd hand books at music sales etc for sight reading. Some become nice pieces to learn and use for warming up or relaxing before bed, just easy stuff. I like Cory Hall and love Bach. Never mind.
You mentioned that this was integrated with PianoMarvel. But I cant find it there.
Sprellic Ultima we just started adding it onto Piano Marvel! 😀
We just loaded the full book into Piano Marvel :)
@@joshmills754 thanks Josh grade 10 is great
@@nilen So glad that you like it! 😁 I'm on Grade 10 as well, number 90. I can't wait to finish, it will be a great achievement! 😁
I just bought it!
I think I'm going to buy the book, but is it worth it?
Craftmarne yes!!!! :)
I went to buy it but FJW didn’t work when I was trying to apply it as a coupon code at the checkout step. Has it expired?
I tried it today and it worked
Too bad the book is only in print, and not Braille. 😢
It would cost a lot to get this in Braille, along with any good music book.
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This ebook can’t print ?
Nope, the paper book is $49.99
Hymnals are helpful
For someone who has advanced sight reading, is it worth it?
Yes. I can learn a piece in a single day but forget it a few hours later. 😂
Nope.
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The discount does not work... "This discount does not apply to any products in your cart." with "Sight-Reading & Harmony (Complete Edition)" in my cart.
I just got the same problem
I don’t like that you need to play so many 10ths in the left hand
Lol wtf just put that voice in the right hand??
My teacher uses a church hymnal for sight reading during my lessons.
Ebooks? time to search on libgen.ru lol
Or you can just download Simply Piano app
All you do is sight read ANY piece of music. If a musician judges a piece of music to be poor you become a bad musician. Be like jesus christ. Love your composers, the so called enemies of what you think harmony and melodies should be like.
On top of sight reading use franz liszt technical exercises.
Thank you for this video!