Improve your sight-reading! A piece a week Piano Grade 1

A piece a week Piano Grade 1 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve your sight-reading! graded piano books to support and improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to be learnt one per week. By continually reading accessible new repertoire, the crucial processing of information and hand-eye coordination are established and improved, developing confident sight-reading.The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling students to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to develop sight-reading skills, especially in the context of graded exams.

So, just when you thought that Paul Harris has covered every possible music education angle, he comes up with something new; something you did not realise you needed. Improve your sight-reading! A piece a week is a collection of short-pieces designed to support and improve sight-reading by developing note-reading skills and hand-eye coordination….Of course, as thoughtful teachers, we know that our pupils can lose their sight-reading skills when they are focusing on grade exams or other pieces, and so we find easier pieces in order to keep these skills alive. However, this saves us the bother of searching…Yet again, Mr Harris has done the work so we don’t have to. Music Teacher Magazine, January 2016. Admirably fills a gap in the market for outstanding “quick study” material. A piece a week lives up to the excellent standards Paul Harris and Faber Music have previously set, and for which they are so well known. I would say that the series is a genuine “must have” for all piano teachers.  Andrew Eales, Pianodao.com, January 2016.