Worried about the sight-reading test in your grade 2 piano exam? Not sure how to practise sight-reading? Improve Your Sight-Reading Piano Grade 2 is the perfect book for you!

Improve your grade 2 piano sight-reading

This book will introduce you to the sight-reading skills needed for your grade 2 piano exam - through over 100 practise exercises, you will cover reading dotted rhythms in 4/4 and 3/4, quavers, simple hands together, more moving between left and right hands, more basic articulations, and the of the new keys of D major, G minor, and E minor. Improve your sight-reading Piano Grade 2 is the ideal book to help prepare you for your ABRSM grade 2 piano exam.

Step by step guide to sight-reading

Improve Your Sight Reading Piano Grade 2 starts off with an introduction by Paul Harris which explains how to get the most of the book and what each section covers. The book has 9 stages, introducing you to all the important parts of grade 2 sight-reading. Every stage starts with some rhythmic and melodic exercises to practise the new skill for that stage, then guides you through 2 small pieces with useful tips on how to prepare them and questions about the pieces. Each stage also has lots of short tunes with performance directions, dynamics, articulation, and fingerings, to do on your own to get used to preparing sight-reading exercises.

Practice chart & useful tips

At the front of Improve Your Sight-Reading Piano Grade 2 there is a practice chart which allows you to track your progress, so you know when you’re ready to take on grade 2 piano sight-reading! There is also a really useful ‘Golden rules for sight-reading’ chart, which gives you information about how to prepare and how to perform a sight-reading piece.