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Sight-reading exercises

Level 5 sight-reading

Six 8-bar pieces for piano, written for a reader at level 5 and never played before. Read each one once, at a steady beat, and keep going whatever happens.

New: A busier left hand: roots in half notes and broken chords in quarter notes.

Playing one needs a MIDI keyboard and Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android tablet. Printing needs nothing.

What level 5 covers

Keys
Up to 2 sharps or flats: C, G, F, D and B♭ major; A, E, D, B and G minor. In minor keys the 7th note is raised with a sharp or natural sign as it leads home
Right hand
One octave in each piece, anywhere from middle C to A5, so the hand moves inside it
Left hand
Held roots, roots in half notes, open 5ths (root and 5th together) and broken chords in quarter notes, from E2 to middle C in the bass clef
Intervals
Repeated notes, steps (2nds), skips (3rds), 4ths and 5ths, mostly steps
Note values
Whole notes, dotted half notes, half notes, dotted quarters with an eighth, quarter notes and eighth notes in pairs
Time
4/4 and 3/4

  1. No. 1

    C major · 4/4 · 8 bars · ♩ = 72 · both hands

    Play this one
    Level 5, no. 1: 8 bars in C major, 4/4, both hands

  2. No. 2

    A minor · 4/4 · 8 bars · ♩ = 72 · both hands

    Play this one
    Level 5, no. 2: 8 bars in A minor, 4/4, both hands

  3. No. 3

    G major · 3/4 · 8 bars · ♩ = 72 · both hands

    Play this one
    Level 5, no. 3: 8 bars in G major, 3/4, both hands

  4. No. 4

    F major · 3/4 · 8 bars · ♩ = 72 · both hands

    Play this one
    Level 5, no. 4: 8 bars in F major, 3/4, both hands

  5. No. 5

    E minor · 4/4 · 8 bars · ♩ = 72 · both hands

    Play this one
    Level 5, no. 5: 8 bars in E minor, 4/4, both hands

  6. No. 6

    D minor · 3/4 · 8 bars · ♩ = 72 · both hands

    Play this one
    Level 5, no. 6: 8 bars in D minor, 3/4, both hands

Level 5 sight-reading exercises from clefsight.com/sight-reading/exercises/level-5. Play any of them at a MIDI keyboard there and get every note marked.

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