Sight reading practice, with music worth reading

Sight reading gets better one way: by reading a great deal of music slightly below the level you can play. The problem has always been supply, because a book of graded exercises runs out and nobody wants to read exercises anyway.

What it does

This is 1,834 free public-domain scores, ordered easiest to hardest by a measurement that reads each file and works out what it asks of your hands. Start where you are, and there is always another piece a step up. Every score plays back, so you can hear whether what you read was what was written.

• 1,834 free scores, ordered from the easiest to read
• Playback, so you can check yourself against the piece
• Slow it down and loop the bar that is not working
• Real repertoire: Bach, Chopin, Satie, Joplin, not graded exercises
• Print anything, or open the MusicXML in MuseScore

Browse the whole shelf on the free sheet music pages, by composer or by the kind of piece you are in the mood for.

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