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# Progressive Sight Reading Exercises for Piano by Hannah Smith | Sheet Music for Sight Reading Practice | Piano Technique Book for Students and Teachers | Early Intermediate Level Training Guide

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Review: Don't let the simplicity fool you. - This book is very simple, but it's absolutely fantastic. It's a great place to start reading for beginners, or even for more advanced players who have seriously neglected their reading skill. And while the book may be easy, one of the biggest mistakes pianists make is dismissing an exercise or piece as too easy without actually putting their fingers to the keys to see if they can actually execute it. This ends up leaving lots of gaps in their playing ability. Too often the advice on improving sightreading starts too hard with suggestions like reading hymns, but what many poor readers really need is to start from the absolute basics and make sure their reading fundamentals in place and this book is absolutely pedagogically sound in that regard. There are over 500 exercises and they are all within a 5 finger pattern. For most of each section of the book both hands are doing the same thing. When the left hand does more, it's still not terribly complicated. The big upside of all of this is that no matter how bad you are at sightreading, you know where your fingers will be for the entire exercise and can keep your eyes glued to the page. You'll have a lot of success early on and become much more confident in your reading and be able to start reading ahead. These are key to sightreading, but since most people try to sightread to close to their absolute playing level, they don't get to practice these. They are too busy double checking where their hands are and not reading ahead. The exercise are short and non-memorable. A mistake many readers make is reading tunes they are familiar with. This leads to cheating on rhythm reading since they are just playing the rhythm they already know in their head. This often leads to students actually playing incorrect rhythms because they are playing what's in their head... not what's on the page. No problem with that here. And since they are so non-memorable, you could read through the whole book several times and still essentially be sightreading since it's all just a wash of similarish 5 finger stuff. You actually have to read what's on the page, though you may find that on repeat reading you're faster and faster as you've gotten more comfortable both technically and in terms of reading ahead. Additionally, there are just a ton of these. Improving your reading requires you to read in great volume and that can often be a problem to locate. But this book has it. Some people dislike that key signatures aren't used and this bothered me at first as well, but then I realized it's actually a pretty pedagogicaly sound approach. Many people panic when they see an accidental in music, but this book makes you very comfortable seeing them and actually thinking about what they mean rather than being worried about non-diatonic notes. Closer to the end there is more chromaticism even while sticking to 5 fingers and this will really make you think actively even more. Additionally, being forced to play somewhat awkwardly in a 5 finger pattern in keys like Db, Eb, F#, etc is actually nice way to get comfortable black keys. While the general rule might be not to use a thumb on a black key, in the real world, this happens a lot out of necessity and being comfortable with it can't hurt. I will admit the title is a bit of misnomer. The book is barley progressive at all other than in terms of gradually introduced rhythmic ideas. Even so, it's a book I don't think anyone should skip. If you've had trouble with sightreading and you think this might be below you, DON'T! Grab the book and read through it and you might be surprised how many small issues in your reading it will help clear up. Then you can easily start working on other materials like the Paul Harris books or Mikrokosmos, but don't skip this one as a starting point.
Review: Get your study on. - I've been playing classical piano since I was 5 years old. It's important to train the mind, eyes and finger dexterity together with sight reading. This book helps keep things in sync when practiced regularly.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #28,416 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #23 in Classical Music (Books) #25 in Opera & Classical Songbooks #224 in Music Instruction & Study (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (305) |
| Dimensions  | 9 x 0.27 x 12 inches |
| ISBN-10  | 0793552621 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0793552627 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 96 pages |
| Publication date  | November 1, 1986 |
| Publisher  | G. Schirmer, Inc. |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Don't let the simplicity fool you.
*by Y***E on June 10, 2017*

This book is very simple, but it's absolutely fantastic. It's a great place to start reading for beginners, or even for more advanced players who have seriously neglected their reading skill. And while the book may be easy, one of the biggest mistakes pianists make is dismissing an exercise or piece as too easy without actually putting their fingers to the keys to see if they can actually execute it. This ends up leaving lots of gaps in their playing ability. Too often the advice on improving sightreading starts too hard with suggestions like reading hymns, but what many poor readers really need is to start from the absolute basics and make sure their reading fundamentals in place and this book is absolutely pedagogically sound in that regard. There are over 500 exercises and they are all within a 5 finger pattern. For most of each section of the book both hands are doing the same thing. When the left hand does more, it's still not terribly complicated. The big upside of all of this is that no matter how bad you are at sightreading, you know where your fingers will be for the entire exercise and can keep your eyes glued to the page. You'll have a lot of success early on and become much more confident in your reading and be able to start reading ahead. These are key to sightreading, but since most people try to sightread to close to their absolute playing level, they don't get to practice these. They are too busy double checking where their hands are and not reading ahead. The exercise are short and non-memorable. A mistake many readers make is reading tunes they are familiar with. This leads to cheating on rhythm reading since they are just playing the rhythm they already know in their head. This often leads to students actually playing incorrect rhythms because they are playing what's in their head... not what's on the page. No problem with that here. And since they are so non-memorable, you could read through the whole book several times and still essentially be sightreading since it's all just a wash of similarish 5 finger stuff. You actually have to read what's on the page, though you may find that on repeat reading you're faster and faster as you've gotten more comfortable both technically and in terms of reading ahead. Additionally, there are just a ton of these. Improving your reading requires you to read in great volume and that can often be a problem to locate. But this book has it. Some people dislike that key signatures aren't used and this bothered me at first as well, but then I realized it's actually a pretty pedagogicaly sound approach. Many people panic when they see an accidental in music, but this book makes you very comfortable seeing them and actually thinking about what they mean rather than being worried about non-diatonic notes. Closer to the end there is more chromaticism even while sticking to 5 fingers and this will really make you think actively even more. Additionally, being forced to play somewhat awkwardly in a 5 finger pattern in keys like Db, Eb, F#, etc is actually nice way to get comfortable black keys. While the general rule might be not to use a thumb on a black key, in the real world, this happens a lot out of necessity and being comfortable with it can't hurt. I will admit the title is a bit of misnomer. The book is barley progressive at all other than in terms of gradually introduced rhythmic ideas. Even so, it's a book I don't think anyone should skip. If you've had trouble with sightreading and you think this might be below you, DON'T! Grab the book and read through it and you might be surprised how many small issues in your reading it will help clear up. Then you can easily start working on other materials like the Paul Harris books or Mikrokosmos, but don't skip this one as a starting point.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Get your study on.
*by D***E on December 18, 2025*

I've been playing classical piano since I was 5 years old. It's important to train the mind, eyes and finger dexterity together with sight reading. This book helps keep things in sync when practiced regularly.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great for sight reading!
*by I***R on July 14, 2024*

I use this as one of the essential elements in my piano teaching! Students are asked to read 1-3 exercises during a lesson. They are short enough and work for my curriculum!

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