I have an actual piano music question. (Sight reading)

[jodi]

less than a minute ago

Looking for suggestions for a good “practice sight reading” book for a non-beginner adult pianist (my son). He had a lot of lessons, his music theory is excellent and he improvises and composes music, but would like to get better at sight reading. I know it is just practice (my skills improved exponentially when I helped both kids with their lessons over the years), so I’m looking for a book with interesting music that doesn’t do any music theory breakdowns. They need to start pretty easy - something like Schumann’s Album for the Young, but with a few more simple/short/fun to play pieces in the beginning. Any suggestions?

[Horace]

A big book of Bach's harmonized chorales is a common suggestion I've seen.

[George K]

Jon went thru Scarlatti sonatas. He found it worth the effort.

[Copper]

The URL is pretty obvious, you have probably already found this.

https://www.sightreadingfactory.com/

I only generated a few exercises, but it seems to work ok. The price is right.

[jodi]

Thanks! I will check out the Bach and Scarlatti. I had not seen that sight reading factory website - it looks pretty cool!

[jon-nyc]

@George-K said in I have an actual piano music question. (Sight reading):

Jon went thru Scarlatti sonatas. He found it worth the effort.

I did. I literally sight read all of the Scarlatti sonatas. They number 550+. I forget the official number and beyond that are several that many believe are his, which I did. If there was a theory that it came from him I did it.

I did one a day for a long time.

[89th]

I recently finished a great book about sight reading. I'd let you borrow it, but I listened to the audiobook version.

[George K]

@89th said in I have an actual piano music question. (Sight reading):

I recently finished a great book about sight reading.

What book was that?

[89th]

A bad joke

[George K]

@89th said in I have an actual piano music question. (Sight reading):

A bad joke