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Do you believe that some people can sight-read and others just can’t? In How to sight-read, Paul Harris dispels this and other common misconceptions about sight-reading, presenting instead the idea of sight-reading as a technique that can be developed and learned by anyone. He breaks down the fascinating science behind sight-reading as well as providing practical advice and exercises that can be incorporated into both lessons and practice. The engaging activities in the book are supported by a unique accompanying web app enabling readers to improve key areas of sight-reading technique including rhythm, pattern recognition, and brain processing speed. Written to help students, parents and teachers alike, How to sight-read challenges existing perspectives on sight-reading and presents an innovative new approach to teaching and learning this vital musical skill. ‘This book has elevated sight-reading practice to the next level, using a fresh, fun approach that blends solid vision, science principles, and 21st-century technology.’ Debra Grant BSc (Hons) MCOptom ‘Paul Harris has offered the concept that sight-reading is simply a technique that can be easily learnt by us all... This is a mustread for music students and teachers.’ John Hutchins, Director Junior Academy and LRAM, Royal Academy of Music “Harris has the wonderful skill of being able to distill complex information and present it with simple (but not simplistic) clarity, making accessible a deeper understanding of the topics he addresses. This book provides another excellent example of this, the author’s several decades of research and experience in the field of sight-reading brought to life with assured confidence and genuine insight.” Andrew Eales, Pianodao.com

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A piece a week Piano Grade 6 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve your sight-reading! graded piano books to support and improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to be learnt one per week. By continually reading accessible new repertoire, the crucial processing of information and hand-eye coordination are established and improved, developing confident sight-reading. The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling students to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to develop sight-reading skills, especially in the context of graded exams.

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Paul Harris’s brilliant series of workbooks contains not only the complete scales and arpeggios for the current ABRSM, Trinity and LCM Initial-level exams but also uses finger fitness exercises, scale, and arpeggio studies, key pieces and simple improvisations to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. An invaluable resource for students, Improve your scales! Piano Initial Grade covers all the keys and ranges required for each syllabus, helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams.

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Paul Harris’s ground-breaking and inspirational new approach encourages teachers to explore and transform how they teach. Paul identifies and reimagines the barriers or ‘conditions’ that can stand in the way of effective teaching, to allow for the most immersive and positive learning experience. Written in Paul’s accessible and engaging style, ideas are tackled from both a practical and psychological perspective, rooted in Paul’s renowned Simultaneous Learning methodology. For teachers of all disciplines and learners of all ages, this seminal book will begin your journey towards an unbounded, unconditional way of teaching. Unconditional Teaching is in my view one of those potentially transformative “best books about teaching”, and I would encourage every instrumental teacher to make a priority of reading it. A miniature masterpiece, a profoundly rewarding read: I quite simply cannot recommend Unconditional Teaching highly enough! Andrew Eales, pianodao.com review, January 2022 Whether you’re a new teacher, or an experienced one, this book is a must-read. Prepare to be both challenged and inspired; everything you take from it will enrich and enhance your teaching. This is the book I wish I’d read before I taught my very first lesson, but it’s of no less value now. David Barton, davidbartonmusic.co.uk, April 2022

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Paul Harris’s brilliant Improve your scales! Piano Grade 1 workbook contains the complete scales, arpeggios and broken chords for the current ABRSM, Trinity, LCM and MTB Grade 1. It also uses finger fitness exercises, scale, arpeggio and broken chord studies, key pieces and simple improvisations to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. An invaluable resource for students, the Improve your scales! Piano series covers all the keys and ranges required for each syllabus, helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams. New edition, revised to support all major exam syllabuses from 2020.

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A piece a week Piano Grade 2 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve your sight-reading! series, graded piano books to support and improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to be learnt one per week. By continually reading accessible new repertoire, the crucial processing of information and hand-eye coordination are established and improved, developing confident sight-reading. The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling students to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to develop sight-reading skills, especially in the context of graded exams.

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More Graded Studies for Saxophone Book One, by Paul Harris, brings together saxophone study repertoire spanning the entire spectrum of technique from the 19th Century onward, and provides a firm foundation for progress. Featuring core studies alongside specially composed pieces by Paul Harris, this comprehensive collection applies the Simultaneous Learning approach to instrumental technique. Book One begins at Elementary level and progresses to Intermediate (approx. Grades 1–5). The studies are arranged in order of increasing difficulty according to a carefully planned technical progression, and each study comes with a list of Simultaneous Learning musical ingredients for players to explore in preparation for the music.

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Part of the best-selling Improve your sight-reading! Series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, Improve your sight-reading! Trinity Edition Piano Grade 3 has been specifically written to support the Trinity College London sight-reading criteria and reflects Trinity’s parameters for Grade 3. Improve your sight-reading! Series is designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems. These books follow the same progressive format as previous editions where technical aspects are introduced step-by-step, firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally by ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces.

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Firmly rooted in Paul Harris’ Simultaneous Learning approach, this new edition of Improve your sight-singing! Grades 4-5 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-singing. Step by step you will build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic, melodic and technical exercises, then by making connections to your wider music-making, studying prepared pieces and finally ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-singing pieces. These editions of the best-selling Improve your sight-singing! series have been simplified into two (midrange) volumes, making them suitable for instrumentalists who wish to improve their singing as well as for singers preparing for sight-singing in vocal exams. The books feature over 100 completely new practice exercises throughout and have been brought up to date to match the latest ABRSM sight-singing criteria.

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A piece a week Piano Grade 3 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve your sight-reading! Series graded piano books to support and improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to be learnt one per week. By continually reading accessible new repertoire, the crucial processing of information and hand-eye coordination are established and improved, developing confident sight-reading. The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling students to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! Series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to develop sight-reading skills, especially in the context of graded exams.

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Does the thought of sight-reading make you groan? The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling you to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve Your Sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems, especially in the context of graded exams. Step by step you build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. New edition, devised to support the revised sight-reading criteria from the ABRSM from 2012.

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***Winner of Best Print Resource 2016 at the Music Teacher Awards for Excellence*** Improve your theory! Grades 1–5 are the latest additions to the bestselling ‘Improve your …’ series by Paul Harris. This theory workbook takes students through every aspect of music theory covered in the grade 3 ABRSM examination. Firmly rooted in Paul Harris’s Simultaneous Learning approach, it will transform how music theory is taught and learnt, improving every aspect of musicianship along the way. Never before has theory been so fun or seemed so natural! Handy fact files that cover different areas of music theory Practice questions to help students prepare for examinations Fun games and quizzes to engage students and offer new and interesting ways to tackle difficult concepts Questions that connect theory directly with pupils’ own pieces – allowing them to discover the links between music in theory and music in practice Opportunities for composing, improvising, aural and listening activities, all carefully devised to consolidate musical understanding. *** Download the Improve your theory! Grade 3 answers and audio tracks here ***

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Improve your sight-reading! Violin Grade 6 is part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris, guaranteed to improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems by building up a complete picture of each piece, through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally by ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This edition now includes supporting audio available online for students to check their performances against. The Improve your sight-reading! series will help you improve your reading ability, and with numerous practice tests included, will ensure sight-reading success in graded exams.

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Improve your sight-reading! Violin Grade 4 is part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris, guaranteed to improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems by building up a complete picture of each piece, through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally by ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This edition now includes supporting audio available online for students to check their performances against. The Improve your sight-reading! series will help you improve your reading ability, and with numerous practice tests included, will ensure sight-reading success in graded exams.

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Improve your sight-reading! Piano Grade 7 (Early Advanced) is part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris, guaranteed to improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems by building up a complete picture of each piece, through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally by ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This edition now includes supporting audio available online for students to check their performances against. The Improve your sight-reading! series will help you improve your reading ability, and with numerous practice tests included, will ensure sight-reading success in graded exams.

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Paul Harris’s Basics Series is widely regarded as the leading method for beginner players and their teachers. Clarinet Basics Teacher’s book contains piano and clarinet accompaniments for the pieces in Clarinet Basics Pupil's book along with a general introduction and guidance for teachers. Starting at beginner level and progressing to Grade 2, this edition offers a fresh design, clear technical drawings, and includes all of the great tunes featured in the original Clarinet Basics, as well as: • a wide range of repertoire, including original pieces and well-loved favourites from every genre • warm ups and fun original exercises • invaluable fact files, quizzes and technical advice covering notation, general musicianship and care of the instrument • helpful fingering diagrams and rhythm boxes • duets throughout – ideal for group teaching • pull-out fingering chart to pin on your wall

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If you can play just a few notes on the alto saxophone, then you're ready for this book. Here are 14 imaginative little pieces specially composed for the absolute beginner, all of them with attractive piano accompaniments. The pieces are arranged progressively, so you can hear the step-by-step improvement in your playing as well as simply enjoying the music. **ABRSM selected pieces (Saxophone 2006-2013): Come to the Ball (Monckton) Walking in the Air (Blake) **Trinity College London selected pieces (Saxophone 2012-2014): The Hippopotamus (Swann) Walking in the Air (Blake)

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Typography is the most effective tool that graphic designers use to express ideas and convey a message. The ability to choose the right typeface for the right job, to design readable and legible pages, and to marry type and image to create visually compelling results are skills that every designer must master. This book introduces the student to the basic principles of typography with clear examples from international practitioners, interviews with designers and typographers, plus exercises to reinforce the concepts covered. With its attractive layout, approachable text and skillful use of typography on every spread, the author sets the standard to inspire the beginning student of design.

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Layout for graphic design concerns the arrangement of text and images on a page. How these elements are positioned, both in relation to one another, and within the overall design scheme, will affect how content is viewed and received. Whether in print or online, it is key to powerful visual communication. Layout for Graphic Designers provides visual arts students with a theoretical and practical underpinning of this design subject. Packed with over 200 examples from key contemporary practices, and fully illustrated with clear diagrams and inspiring imagery, it offers an essential exploration of the subject. This third edition has been updated to include 25 new images and 6 new case studies from Lundgren + Lindqvist, TwoPoints.Net, Bruce Mau Design, Non-Format, Mind Design and Plau.

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Flexi Violin 1 is a refreshingly diverse collection for violin with both piano and violin duet accompaniments from leading educational authors Paul Harris and Jessica O’Leary. Suitable for Initial to Grade 2 (Elementary) level players, it features a wide range of composers and the pieces have both piano and violin duet accompaniments.

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Double Bass Basics is a landmark method by two of the leading figures in music education, Paul Harris and Jessica O’Leary. Comprising pupil’s tutor book, free downloadable accompaniment parts and online audio, Double Bass Basics provides everything you need to get playing. The method presents a step-by-step technical progression supported by fun exercises and warm-ups with a wide range of imaginative repertoire. Helpful fact files, rhythm boxes, music theory and musicianship activities provide a holistic approach for beginners.

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More Graded Studies for Flute Book One, by Sally Adams and Paul Harris, brings together saxophone study repertoire spanning the entire spectrum of technique from the 19th Century onward, and provides a firm foundation for progress. Featuring core studies alongside specially composed pieces by Paul Harris, this comprehensive collection applies the Simultaneous Learning approach to instrumental technique. Book One begins at Elementary level and progresses to Intermediate (approx. Grades 1–5). The studies are arranged in order of increasing difficulty according to a carefully planned technical progression, and each study comes with a list of Simultaneous Learning musical ingredients for players to explore in preparation for the music. **ABRSM selected piece (Flute 2018-2021): American Pye **ABRSM selected piece (Flute 2018-2021): Study in D minor **ABRSM selected piece (Flute 2018-2021): Chromatic Polka **ABRSM selected piece (Flute 2018-2021): Tarantella **ABRSM selected piece (Flute 2018-2021): Jasmine Flower **ABRSM selected piece (Flute 2018-2021): Study in G **ABRSM selected piece (Flute 2018-2021): Under the Rainbow **ABRSM selected piece (Flute 2018-2021): Study in C or Study in G

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The very thought of aural, especially in examinations, strikes fear into the heart of many young pianists and instrumentalists. But aural should not be an occasional optional extra, it’s something to be developing all the time, because having a good ear will help you to improve as a musician more than any other single musical skill. Improve your aural! Is designed to take the fear out of aural. Through fun listening activities, boxes to fill in and practice exercises, this workbook with downloadable online audio, focuses on all the elements of the aural test. And because all aspects of musical training are of course connected, a range of interconnected activities are included to help develop the ear including singing, clapping, playing your instrument, writing music down, improvising and composing. This edition supports ABRSM syllabus requirements from 2010, ensuring success in the aural test of graded exams. All the answers for Improve your aural! Grade 1 are provided on the last page of the physical book.

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The very thought of aural, especially in examinations, strikes fear into the heart of many young pianists and instrumentalists. But aural should not be an occasional optional extra, it’s something to be developing all the time, because having a good ear will help you to improve as a musician more than any other single musical skill. Improve your aural! is designed to take the fear out of aural. Through fun listening activities, boxes to fill in and practice exercises, this workbook with downloadable online audio focuses on all the elements of the aural test. And because all aspects of musical training are of course connected, a range of interconnected activities are included to help develop the ear including singing, clapping, playing your instrument, writing music down, improvising and composing. All the answers for Improve your aural! Grade 2 are provided on the last page of the physical book.

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Christmas Saxophone Basics is a collection of fun and festive repertoire for alto saxophone. Leap through the twelve days of Christmas in twelve stages with Christmas-themed improvisations, warm-ups and studies, plus your favourite Christmas tunes. There’s a selection of repertoire with piano accompaniment as well as duets suitable for 2 saxophones and duets for saxophone and clarinet. Each stage wraps together musical and technical elements to help focus your festive playing.

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Christmas Clarinet Basics is a collection of fun and festive clarinet repertoire. Leap through the twelve days of Christmas in twelve stages, including Christmas-themed improvisations, warm-ups and studies, and your favourite Christmas tunes with piano accompaniment, or as duets for 2 clarinets or clarinet and flute. Each stage wraps together musical and technical elements to help focus your festive playing.

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Clarinet All Sorts provides an assortment of 19 fun pieces to pick and mix - from easy classics to great new pieces, this collection covers it all! All Sorts is designed to fit the technique and capabilities of the young players, with easy-to-play piano accompaniments for the teacher.

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Know your scales! Trumpet Grades 1-3 is the bright, fresh way to learn scales and arpeggios - a scale book without scales! Using 'finger fitness' exercises, scale and arpeggio study pieces, and simple improvisations, Paul Harris's brilliant approach teaches students to know the notes and thus to play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. As well as prompting a solid basis for the learning repertoire and sight-reading techniques, this invaluable resource for students covers all the keys and ranges required for the ABRSM examination syllabus, helping you pick up those valuable extra marks.

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Improve your Aural! Is designed to take the fear out of aural. Through fun listening activities, boxes to fill in and practice exercises, this workbook with CD focuses on all the elements of the aural test.

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A collection of repertoire books of enjoyable, interesting, and stimulating material for use in the early stages of learning. The pieces in Book 3 are of around grades 3-4 standard and are in chronological order, with brief notes placing them in history.

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This edition of Improve your sight-reading! Horn Grades 1-5 has been revised to support the ABRSM syllabus from 2023. It also includes online audio of the ‘going solo’ pieces for students to check their performances against. The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling students to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to develop sight-reading skills and improve confidence. Step by step you build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces.

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A piece a week Piano Grade 5 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve your sight-reading! graded piano books to support and improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to be learnt one per week. By continually reading accessible new repertoire, the crucial processing of information and hand-eye coordination are established and improved, developing confident sight-reading. The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling students to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to develop sight-reading skills, especially in the context of graded exams.

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Paul Harris’s brilliant Improve your scales! Piano Grade 3 workbook contains the complete scales, arpeggios and broken chords for the current ABRSM, Trinity, LCM and MTB Grade 3. It also uses finger fitness exercises, key pieces, sight-reading and simple improvisations to help you play scales, arpeggios and broken chords with real confidence. An invaluable resource for students, the Improve your scales! Piano series covers all the keys and ranges required for each syllabus, helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams. New edition, revised to support all major exam syllabuses from 2020.

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Firmly rooted in Paul Harris's Simultaneous Learning approach, this new edition of Improve your sight-reading! Flute Grades 1-3 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-reading. Step by step you will build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic, melodic and technical exercises, then by studying prepared pieces and finally `going solo' with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This new edition of the best-selling Improve your sight-reading! contains completely new material throughout and has been brought up to date to match the latest ABRSM sight-reading criteria.

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A piece a week Piano Grades 7-8 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve your sight-reading! graded piano books to support and improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to be learnt one per week. By continually reading accessible new repertoire, the crucial processing of information and hand-eye coordination are established and improved, developing confident sight-reading. The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling students to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to develop sight-reading skills, especially in the context of graded exams.

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Improve your sight-reading! Viola Grades 1-5, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to help viola players overcome sight-reading problems, especially in the context of graded exams. Step by step you build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces.

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***Winner of Best Print Resource 2016 at the Music Teacher Awards for Excellence*** Improve your theory! Grades 1–5 are the latest additions to the bestselling ‘Improve your …’ series by Paul Harris. This theory workbook takes students through every aspect of music theory covered in the grade 1 ABRSM examination. Firmly rooted in Paul Harris’s Simultaneous Learning approach, it will transform how music theory is taught and learnt, improving every aspect of musicianship along the way. Never before has theory been so fun or seemed so natural! Handy fact files that cover different areas of music theory Practice questions to help students prepare for examinations Fun games and quizzes to engage students and offer new and interesting ways to tackle difficult concepts Questions that connect theory directly with pupils’ own pieces – allowing them to discover the links between music in theory and music in practice. *** Download the Improve your theory! Grade 1 answers and audio tracks here ***

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The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! Series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, has now been extended to offer a series of editions supporting the Trinity College London sight-reading criteria. Improve your sight-reading! Trinity Edition Piano Grade 4 has been specifically written to reflect Trinity’s parameters for Grade 4 and contains new material throughout. Improve your sight-reading! Series is designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems. These books follow the same progressive format as previous editions, where technical aspects are introduced step-by-step firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally by ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces.

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More Graded Studies for Clarinet Book Two, by Paul Harris, brings together saxophone study repertoire spanning the entire spectrum of technique from the 19th Century onward, and provides a firm foundation for progress. Featuring core studies alongside specially composed pieces by Paul Harris, this comprehensive collection applies the Simultaneous Learning approach to instrumental technique. Book Two takes the student from Intermediate to Advanced level (approx. Grades 6–8). The studies are arranged in order of increasing difficulty according to a carefully planned technical progression, and each study comes with a list of Simultaneous Learning musical ingredients for players to explore in preparation for the music.

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Improve your sight-reading! Violin Initial-Grade 1 is part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris, guaranteed to improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems by building up a complete picture of each piece, through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally by ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This edition now includes supporting audio available online for students to check their performances against. The Improve your sight-reading! series will help you improve your reading ability, and with numerous practice tests included, will ensure sight-reading success in graded exams.

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The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! Series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, has now been extended to offer a series of editions supporting the Trinity College London sight-reading criteria. Improve your sight-reading! Trinity Edition Piano Grade 5 has been specifically written to reflect Trinity’s parameters for Grade 5 and contains new material throughout. Improve your sight-reading! Series is designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems. These books follow the same progressive format as previous editions, where technical aspects are introduced step-by-step firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally by ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces.

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