Making Sight Reading Fun!

Choral Games for Students and Teachers-Can learning to sight read ever be fun' With this creative resource the answer is a resounding yes! Written by veteran middle school choral director Mary Jane Phillips Making Sight Reading Fun! has been carefully designed to include many different games to motivate upper elementary and secondary students. Through carrying out the activities in this book your choir will not only work harder on perfecting their sight reading skills but they will enjoy doing so. Along with fun games like ???Eliminator ??? ???Sight Reading Football??? and ???Trashketball ??? Phillips offers tips and tricks from 27 years spent motivatingstudents to learn to sight read in the most painless way possible. This book contains short Daily Activities and longer Friday ???Game Day??? activities - 20 in all - to keep students on their toes and engaged while learning to sight read. Also included are many music examples as well as a list of resources to help you find further sight reading material.

How To Blitz! Sight Singing is the perfect training for your eyes and ears - a fantastic start for vocalists who are learning to read and sing at the same time. Featuring listening and singing activities athorough introduction to pitch and rhythm notation as well as other resources this book is great for all choirs conductors music teachers and vocalists. Blitz! Sight Singing alsoincludes rounds and short two-part pieces composition and improvisation exercises activities based on pitch and rhythm and all presented in a wonderfully clear and logical order. Vocalists will move through rhythm and notevalues to melodies and scales before combining the two with tunes. Written by renowned educator and author Samantha Coates the BlitzBooks series has brought fun and laughter tomusic theory technique and sight reading making them more accessible and enjoyable for all. As the most popular range of theory and sight reading books in Australia this series is finally available in the UK perfectlysupporting students learning with the main exam boards.

Bags Of Fun For Cello is packed with imaginative pieces for absolute beginners: try chattering with skeletons making a gate creak admiring an octopus trampolining and watching frogs doing high jump! Written by leading string pedagogue Mary Cohen this book is gently progressive yet always entertaining with plenty of material on the open strings and a gradual introduction of first and third fingers. Ideal for consolidation alongside any tutor for sight-reading practice.

inspiring confidence to play by touch-Richard Smith's Don't LOOK At The Keys! teaches students how to play by touch feeling their way around the keyboard using various 'signposts' whilst keeping their eyes on the music. Designed to make sight reading easier and more effective the books in this innovative series contain a progressive set of imaginative pieces to take students and teachers step by step through the technique. This is not just another sight reading book. Don't LOOK At The Keys! contains actual practice pieces as well as instructions that demonstrate how toplay Piano by touch. It instructs and develops the skill and confidence to look at the music instead of the hands and helps those students who commit pieces to memory or play by ear then wonder where to look while playing. 'Don't LOOK At The Keys!' is a progressive series in three parts teaching piano keyboard geography by touch in an accessible enjoyable way making sight reading easier and more effective. The pieces in Book 2 are all within an octave spread in each hand to demonstrate progress and inspire confidence following the five finger range in Book 1. To get started there is one page of notes for teachers and students followed by a varied selection of 14 pieces; titles such as 'It Only Took A Minuet' 'Hot Israeli Nights' the boogie woogie pieces 'Lazy' and 'Toe Tapper' as well as 'Flat Footed Flip Flop Waltz' - inspirational and great fun!

A Practical Rhythm Reading Course-Here is a follow-up to Audrey Snyder's popular rhythm reading method. Designed for choirs bands orchestras and general music classes 'The Rhythm Reader II' promotes quick comprehension with solid rhythm reading resulting inonly a few minutes of use each rehearsal. Volume II continues the sequential curriculum by offering instruction and practice in ties dotted rhythms cut time and other meters sixteenth note combinations compound meters triplets and more. The concepts are introduced logically and sequentially throughout more than 100 exercises. Optional recorded accompaniments on the CD promote high motivation and success for all students. These recordingsfeature a wide variety of styles and timbres from classical to reggae string quartet to rock making learning to sight-read FUN!

Student Edition-A Practical Rhythm Reading Course. Designed for choirs bands orchestras and general music classes 'The Rhythm Reader' promotes quick comprehension with solid rhythm reading resulting in only a few minutes of use each rehearsal.Assuming no prior music reading experience on the students' part rhythm concepts are introduced logically and sequentially throughout more than 90 challenging exercises. Optional Accompaniment Trax promote high motivation andsuccess for all students. These recordings feature a wide variety of styles and timbres from classical to reggae string quartet to rock making learning to sight-read FUN!Available: Teacher Edition Student Edition Reproducible Pak (includes reproducible rhythm patterns) and Accompaniment CD. For all ages.

A Practical Rhythm Reading Course-Here is a follow-up to Audrey Snyder's popular rhythm reading method. Designed for choirs bands orchestras and general music classes The Rhythm Reader II promotes quick comprehension with solid rhythm reading resultingin only a few minutes of use each rehearsal. Volume II continues the sequential curriculum by offering instruction and practice in ties dotted rhythms cut time and other meters sixteenth note combinations compound meters triplets and more. The concepts are introduced logically and sequentially throughout more than 100 exercises. Optional recorded accompaniments on the separate CD promote high motivation and success for all students. Theserecordings feature a wide variety of styles and timbres from classical to reggae string quartet to rock making learning to sight-read FUN!Available: Teacher's Manual Singer's Edition Reproducible Pak Accompaniment CD.For all ages!

for 3 Flutes and Optional Piano-Everybody likes rounds! In addition to having fun students learn many important things while playing rounds such as sight-reading together holding a part independently and making music by imitation. These books contains eight modern rounds for in various styles that can also be accompanied by a staged performance - for effective and motivating lessons and sparkling performances! The optional piano part is included in the book and on the enclosed CD.

Par SMITH GAIL. This piano method for intermediate students by experienced author and teacher Gail Smith makes music interesting and fun while teaching the skills essential to becoming a great pianist. The Celebrate the Piano series combines theory, exercises, and a wide variety of musical styles into one book per level, making teaching easier than ever. Gail Smith's signature palindrome exercises are a special feature which help build sight-reading skills. Book 3 builds the student's repertoire, skills, and knowledge with blues, jazz, pop, folk music, Native American songs, hymnody, improvisation study, classical selections, and composer biographies in rhyme. / Niveau : Débutant / All Styles - Methods / Méthode / Piano

A lively collection of four Afro-Caribbean songs scored for five right hands at one Piano.'Following on the success of Mike Cornick's first book of four pieces for five hands at one piano he has now come up with a second volume.Huge fun to play and with each person having his own individual part these works make everyone listen carefully in order for the complex rhythmic patterns to fit together.Excellent for aural training and sight-reading this volume can only aid young pupils in making gerenal musical progress.' - Nadia Lasserson Piano Journal issue 102 2014

for 3 Alto Saxophones and Optional Piano-Everybody likes rounds! In addition to having fun students learn many important things while playing rounds such as sight-reading together holding a part independently and making music by imitation. These books contains eight modern rounds for in various styles that can also be accompanied by a staged performance - for effective and motivating lessons and sparkling performances! The optional piano part is included in the book and on the enclosed CD.

for 3 Clarinets and Optional Piano-Everybody likes rounds! In addition to having fun students learn many important things while playing rounds such as sight-reading together holding a part independently and making music by imitation. These books contains eight modern rounds for in various styles that can also be accompanied by a staged performance - for effective and motivating lessons and sparkling performances! The optional piano part is included in the book and on the enclosed CD.

First Pop Hits is a collection of popular songs in simplified arrangements designed for Pianists working through parts two to four of the renowned John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course.This repertoire book has been specially created to be complementary with the original and best selling Easiest Piano Course. The songs are ordered so that they progress in difficulty so that songs at the beginning like Fight For This Love and Let It Be are best suited to beginning Piano players just getting started with the course. As the book progresses songs like The Sound OfSilence and Let It Go are introduced reinforcing more advanced musical techniques through well-known songs. To see the full list of songs included in First Pop Hits scroll down.With 15 contemporary pieces this songbook is ideal for students who will be able to put what they've learned into practice with songs that are enjoyable fun and familiar. This will help to develop musicality since the student will know how the song is supposed to be played.Helpfully dynamics and phrasing are not included with some of the earlier pieces since these concepts are not introduced until part three of the course. Outline fingering is included with the hand assumed to stay in a five-finger position until a new position is indicated. The pieces can also be used as sight-reading practice for more advanced students making these pieces truly versatile and useful.Whether you or your student is working through John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course First Pop Hits is the perfect songbook to transform the newly-learned skills and techniques into the beginnings of a crowd-pleasing repertoire.

Theory Book-This latest classically-flavoured songbook for John Thompsons Easiest Piano Course introduces easy works by one of the greatest composers ever to have lived Ludwig Van Beethoven . Featuring some very fine compositions First Beethoven? isperfect for pupils reaching parts 2 to 4 of the world-renowned Piano course. These fun repertoire books contain some amazing pieces that have been specially collected and graded to be used in conjunction with the Easiest Piano Course. Pieces likeMinuet In G Major Rondo In C the sublime Moonlight Sonata 1st Movement ?and the classic Für Elise ?will reinforce essential technical ability while simultaneously enhancing a general sense of musicality and melodic playing. FirstBeethoven? is therefore ideal for pupils whove worked through the course at levels 2 to 4 but its also a great set of pieces for sight reading practice for more advanced students. The pieces in this songbook become progressively moredifficult and to this end dynamics and phrasing have been omitted for the earlier pieces since theyre not introduced until Part 3 of the course. Early pieces like Ode To Joy? and Turkish March? help to reinforce what pupils learn inthe beginning of the? John Thompson Method with a focus on playing notes and rhythms accurately. Towards of the end of the songbook more challenging pieces like Eroica Symphony and Sonata Pathétique ?will help pupils to enhance theirtechnical skills play more melodically and most importantly enjoy playing! Generally these pieces stay in the 5-finger position with handy hints and suggestions when a different fingering is called for. The pieces in this songbook arebeautiful to hear and to play making First Beethoven? a really great beginners songbook for pupils who want to learn some of the finest music ever composed. As an introduction for beginners to classical music and Beethoven in particular thissongbook is rewarding and enjoyable these pieces being timeless and never going out of fashion. The John Thompsons Easiest Piano Course First Beethoven? songbook is the ideal beginning book for classical music fans. Its tailor-made forpupils working through the renowned and revered Piano method so its authoritative and accurate helping you to enhance your technique and learn some amazing music at the same time.