Read at Sight
A graded sight-reading course for piano. Open any unit, read it as in the book, and press play on any exercise or piece: you hear it at the marked speed while the notes light up on the score.
- Before You BeginHabits that make sight-reading work: read this first.
- Volume 1: First StepsHundreds of short, new exercises at exactly your level, with tips, checkpoints and real pieces along the way.
- Volume 2: Moving HandsYour hands leave home: shifts, stretches, new keys and minor keys, with legato, staccato and dynamics to bring the music to life.
- Volume 3: Two VoicesThe left hand gets its own music: broken chords, Alberti basses and real second voices, in 6/8 time and in keys with up to two sharps or flats.
- Volume 4: Patterns and KeysChords in both hands, high and low notes, syncopation and sixteenths, keys with three sharps or flats, and music that changes key.
- Volume 5: Repertoire ReadingReal piano music: two voices in one hand, chorales, chromatic notes, triplets, every key, the pedal and ornaments, with pieces by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann and Chopin.
- Volume 6: Reading Like a ProfessionalThree voices, cross-rhythms, changing meters and chromatic harmony; songs on three staves, open score with C clefs, lead sheets, and transposing and simplifying at sight.
- Volume 7A: Repertoire, Levels 7-845 complete pieces to learn and keep.
- Volume 7B: Repertoire, Levels 9-1026 complete pieces to learn and keep.
- Technique: Scales, Arpeggios and ChordsTen minutes a day alongside the volumes: six stages, one for each volume.
- My piecesMusic outside the course, chosen to play.
Using the player
- Press ▶ under a score to play it; press it again to pause, ■ to stop.
- The speed starts at the marked tempo; slide it slower to practise reading along.
- Metronome: a click on every beat. Count-in: one bar of clicks before the music starts.
- Hands: hear the right hand, the left hand or both (pieces with more staves list each staff).
- Click any note on the score to start playing from there. Space bar: play or pause the score you last used.