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The Art of Sight-Reading at the Piano

Prima Vista

Reading music at sight — as a skill you can train.
A complete method · 17 chapters · 42 protocols · 13 languages
The idea

Sight-reading is not a gift you are born with. It is a perceptual-motor skill — a chain of small sub-skills, each of which can be isolated, trained and measured. What looks like magic from the outside is, from the inside, a technique.

Why it works
42

FARJADI protocols

Every exercise has a fixed duration, a clear purpose and a success criterion. You always know what you are training.

17

Chapters, one path

From the movements of the eye, through the inner ear, to fingering and live performance — a single ordered route.

15

Minutes a day

A written curriculum turns the method into a habit. Fifteen minutes a day is enough — the secret is new material, daily.

What you train
  • Eye

    Where the eyes actually go

    Saccades, fixations and the eye–hand span — how a fluent reader takes in the page before the hands move.

  • Ear

    Hearing the page before you play

    Audiation: the inner ear turns notation into sound in advance, so the fingers arrive already knowing.

  • Hand

    Fingering as a decision

    The tactile geography of the keyboard, so the hand finds its place without the eyes leaving the score.

  • Live

    Reading under pressure

    Calm, secure reading that earns points in graded exams — and makes rehearsals a pleasure.

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Paperback $24.99

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Prices on Amazon may be shown in your local currency. Hardcover is available in English, German and French. Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish and Japanese are currently available as e-book only.

The author

Aria Farjadi is a classical pianist, composer, piano teacher and actor based in Copenhagen, and the founder of Farjadi Piano School (1998).

For more than twenty-five years Aria has guided students from their very first note to conservatory admission. The method comes straight from that daily work: every protocol in the book was born of a concrete problem in a concrete student.