Joining the Dots offers pianists lots of material to help build confidence and
skill in sight-reading.
The series brings together a range of activities to help students improve
their sense of keyboard geography, helping them to read new music more quickly
and easily.
The book covers the requirements for ABRSM’s sight-reading tests at Grade 1,
and includes:
– many short, characterful pieces to sight-read, in a rangeof approachable
musical styles
– warm-up and technical exercises, to establish basic hand shapes and finger
patterns within each key
– simple improvisation exercises in which students can explore musical ideas
and familiarise themselves further with the ‘feel’ of each key
– longer solo pieces and a duet, for additional sight-reading practice or to
learn quickly and play through for fun