Piano Sight-Reading Development with 25 Exercises
What you'll learn
- Read beginning and intermediate level piano repertoire with confidence!
- Learn repertoire faster by building fundamental skills.
- Improve reading speed, note and interval recognition, and gain the ability to analyze harmonies and recognize patterns quickly.
- Improvement of rhythm and hand coordination.
Requirements
- Access to a piano or keyboard is required.
- Commitment to short but consistent practice (reading a minimum of five to ten minutes, five days per week to successfully meet course goals)
- No previous piano experience required (fundamentals will be covered), although basic ability in reading notes (bass and treble clef) and intervals will facilitate progress.
- Patience. As with any instrument or skill building, the more you put in, the more you get out!
Description
In this course, we will break down 25 progressive sight-reading pieces in three unique ways:
1) intervallic analysis
2) rhythmic analysis
3) practice videos
By isolating and strengthening each skill (intervals, rhythms, patterns) with dedicated videos for each example, we will train our eyes to rapidly recognize shapes and patterns, increasing speed, accuracy and efficiency in reading.
With 5-10 minutes of daily reading, students who are consistent with practice can expect to finish the entire course within a month, and will have gained a solid foundation not only in sight-reading, but will become more independent in practice with a specific methodology to tackle more challenging scores.
Who this course is for:
- Any keyboardist/pianist who wishes to improve their sight-reading ability, or seeks structure and guidance with a systematic approach, guaranteed to increase reading skills.
- Beginning through intermediate-level players, or even advanced players who struggle with sight-reading
Instructor
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 159 Reviews
- 998 Students
- 1 Course
Dr. Samuel Gingher currently serves as Assistant Professor of Piano Pedagogy at East Carolina University, with previous faculty appointments at Northern Arizona University, Millikin University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Bradley University. His research interests include classical piano improvisation pedagogy and the discovery and performance of rare masterworks. Dr. Gingher’s world-premiere recordings of piano trios by Carl Czerny (with Sun-Young Shin and Benjamin Hayek) and four-hand piano fantasies (with Pei-I Wang) can be heard on the Naxos label.
Dr. Gingher has been the winner of several competitions and recipient of many awards, including the Krannert Debut Artist Award, first prize in Brevard Music Festival’s International Solo Piano Competition, first prize in WVU’s Intersection between Jazz and Classical solo piano festival competition, the 21st Century Piano Commission Competition at UIUC, and concerto competition winner at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the LaGrange Symphony Orchestra Young Artist’s concerto competition in Georgia, to highlight a few. He has performed and taught in piano and chamber music festivals in North Carolina, Michigan, Illinois, California, Arizona, West Virginia, Austria and Switzerland, and has played in a variety of new music, chamber and jazz groups. Dr. Gingher was the keyboardist in Urbana-Champaign’s local jazz group, Almost “A” Quintet for many years. Dr. Gingher is an active member of MTNA and has frequently served as a clinician and adjudicator for ISMTA conferences in Illinois, Arizona and New Mexico.
Dr. Gingher has additional experience as a composer, arranger and free-lance audio engineer, having served as producer for albums on the Naxos, Centaur, Albany and Pacific Media labels. Sam holds a DMA in Piano Performance and Literature, MM in Piano Pedagogy and MM in Piano Performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and BM in Piano Performance from UNC-Chapel Hill. His former piano teachers include Timothy Ehlen, Thomas Otten, Edmund Paolantonio and Constance Kotis.