This is the ability to feel your way around the piano without looking at your hands. Another hindrance to effective sight reading is poor “Piano Geography”. The examples in this book are designed to be played with an accompanying audio track which can be downloaded for free at: This will improve your rhythm and fluency when sight reading. It is not just a series of specimen sight reading tests like you can buy in the ABRSM Specimen Sight Reading Grade Books. "Sight Reading Trainer" Grades 1-8, will change the way you sight read.
However, if you look at the ABRSM marking criteria for a sight reading test, the FIRST thing that is mentioned for a distinction is, “Fluent, rhythmically accurate” (followed by “accurate notes/pitch/key”). Most students focus primarily on getting the notes the correct pitch at the expense of keeping the beat going. Sight Reading is a skill in which many people concentrate just on the pitch and forget about the rhythm.
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