Super Sight-Reading Secrets: An Innovative, Step-by-Step Program for Keyboard Players of All Levels - Softcover

Richman, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0961596309 ISBN 13: 9780961596309

Publisher: Sound Feelings Publishing, 1985

Synopsis

The Super Sight-Reading Secrets book has provided the answers to sight-reading problems for thousands of pianists and keyboardists! This self-study method teaches sight-readers how to increase their visual perception, and keyboard orientation. Specifically, the drills and exercises teach how to look ahead and to play any note on the keyboard without looking at their hands.

About this title

From the Publisher

Praise from Experts
The following comments were sent to the publisher. They are signed and remain on file.

"Thank you for providing piano educators with a most useful tool." —Jeanine M. Jacobson, Assistant Professor, Piano proficiency class for piano majors, California State University, Northridge

"Richman has gone a long way toward de-mythologizing the process of sight-reading. Highly recommended" —American Music Teacher Magazine, September/October, 1988

"All pianists can benefit and some will experience the transformation into 1st-class sight-readers — something they may have thought was an impossibility." —Leonid Hambro, Concert Pianist/Teacher, Los Angeles

"His ingenious exercises cannot fail to help people become better sight-readers." —The California Music Teacher, Vol 10, Number 2

"A pianist’s main asset is to be a good reader. This book will be an invaluable asset toward that goal." —Delores Stevens, Pianist/Artist-Teacher

"It is elegantly simple yet comprehensive." —Todd Winkler, Professor of Music Theory and Solfege, California Institute of the Arts

"I've used it in the studio, on tour, and in playing classical music." —Vonda Shepard, Recording Artist (Reprise Records)

From the Author

This Book Will Help You To:

· Increase your rate of visual perception.
· Play any note on the keyboard without looking at your hands, even jumping large distances.
· Look ahead.
· Keep from losing your place.
· Fake.
· Play contemporary classical music.
· Transpose notes (or chords) at sight.

"Just practice and it will get better." This is the typical suggestion given intended to improve music-reading. For anyone who has been frustrated with this suggestion, this book is a gold mine of what to actually practice. It reduces the process of sight-reading into individual components. Through a series of progressive drills your mastery of each component is comfortably and scientifically paced. One set of drills specifically improves your ability to see and interpret the notation quickly. Another set of drills specifically improves your tactile sense of the keyboard so that you can find any note without looking. As you improve, the parts merge as one and your reading reaches the highest level!

Since 1986, Super Sight-Reading Secrets has been the sight-reading solution for thousands of students, teachers and professional keyboardists. If you are a complete beginner, it will help you to establish proper reading habits. If you are already very advanced, it will help you to become even better!

Edition details

• Publisher: Sound Feelings Publishing
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0961596309
• ISBN 13: 9780961596309
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 48