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An advantage of taking grade exams in sequence is that the student is focussed on achievement. It provides something to work towards. It can also make the teachers responsibilities easier. It would be wrong, however, not to supplement the syllabus of grades with additional material conducive to deve...

“is to raise the fingers as high as possible” Mechanical exercises should be treated with caution. Using the fingers like little sledgehammers striking into the key is (I believe) a very bad idea. It causes unnecessary tension in the extrinsic muscles of the forearm and prolonged use can lead to rep...

In the description of my methods I’ll move over some of the preliminaries such as recognition and realisation of key and time and security in static hand positions for more advanced reading. However at all levels of sight-reading I stretch the eye-hand span. The eye-hand span is the distance between...