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Sight Reading, Scales and Aural

Paul Harris has over six hundred publica ons to his name; among them The Music Teacher's Companion, which won the UK Music Industry
Award for Best New Book, the Improve Your Scales!, Improve Your Prac ce!, Improve Your Aural!, and Improve Your Sight-Reading! series,
through which he has assisted thousands of young players worldwide to develop these vital musical skills. In addi on, he has wri en many
other works ranging from innumerable short educa on pieces to seven concertos, a ballet and a children's opera.

Paul Harris‘s Faber Music sales worldwide are due to pass the 2,500,000 mark: a remarkable achievement and great testament to his
posi on not only as one of the world’s leading music educa onalists, but also as a gi ed composer who writes appealing music for players
of all abili es and ages.

“Sight Reading is not (contrary to many peoples thinking) something that some can do and others can’t! It is a skill (like any other) that
can be taught. It takes me (of course!) and a sound methodology.

The benefits of teaching pupils to sight-read fluently, accurately and confidently are enormous. I
hardly need to list them here – but perhaps the most important is that our job, as teachers, becomes
rather different – much more fulfilling and musical. If our pupils can interact confidently with
nota on then we can spend much more of our me teaching music.

There are a number of sight-reading books available, but I have taken great trouble to ensure that, if
pupils work methodically through this one, they will end up sight reading without fear and panic and
with great results.

The method is based on sound musical and scien fic principles – the snapshot capability of the eye,
the importance of rhythmic understanding and the perceiving of rhythmic and melodic pa erns are
all at the heart of this sequen al method.

Hope you find it useful! “

Paul Harris

Paul Harris has a book to help with all your sight reading, aural and scales needs.

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