FABER | Accelerated Piano Adventures (Sightreading Book)

Sightreading skills is a powerful assets for the developing musicians. It makes every step of music-making easier. With the right tools and a little effort, sightreading skill can be developed to great benefit.

   In language literacy, the reader must not only identify sinlge words, but also group words together for understanding. Similiarly, music reading involves more than note naming. The sightreader tracks horizontally and vertically, observing intervals and contour while gleaning familiar patterns that make up the musical context.

   This decoding skill requires repetition within familiar musical contexts. In other words, pattern recognition develops by seeing a lot of the same patterns.Accordingly, this book presents musical variations to sharpen perception of the new against a backdrop of the familiar. To use the literacy analogy, the musician must not only identify single notes, but also group notes into musical patterns for understanding.