Grade 1 Piano Books
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Grade 1
Piano Exam Pieces 2025 & 2026, ABRSM Grade 1: Selected from the 2025 & 2026 syllabus
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 2 Piano syllabus for 2025 & 2026, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B and C - ideal for both Practical and Performance Grade exams. The pieces have been carefully selected to offer an attractive and varied range of styles, creating a collection that provides an excellent source of repertoire to suit every performer. The book also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing for exams, useful syllabus information.
Piano Exam Pieces 2023 & 2024, ABRSM Grade 1: Selected from the 2023 & 2024 syllabus
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 2 Piano syllabus for 2023 & 2024, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B and C - ideal for both Practical and Performance Grade exams. The pieces have been carefully selected to offer an attractive and varied range of styles, creating a collection that provides an excellent source of repertoire to suit every performer. The book also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing for exams, useful syllabus information.
Piano Scales & Arpeggios, ABRSM Grade 1: from 2021
This book contains all the scales and arpeggios required for ABRSM’s Grade 1 Piano exam. It covers all the new requirements from 2021.
Piano Specimen Sight-Reading Tests, Grade 1
This volume contains practice material for candidates preparing for the ABRSM Grade 1 piano exam.
• Specimen tests for the sight-reading requirements
• Representative of the technical level expected in the exam
More Piano Sight-Reading, Grade 1 (ABRSM Sight-reading)
This book contains valuable material to help players strengthen their sight-reading skills in preparation for the ABRSM piano exam. Featuring preparatory exercises that gradually introduce key new elements encountered at each grade, along with a comprehensive selection of sample sight-reading pieces, More Piano Sight-Reading supports students with the transition between grades, and encourages them to integrate sight-reading into their daily practice.
More Piano Sight-Reading is available for ABRSM Grades 1 to 8, offering additional support for the sight-reading requirements of the current syllabus.
Improve Your Sight-Reading Piano Grade 1
Improve Your Sight-Reading! Grade 1 is part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris guaranteed to improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems, by building up a complete picture of each piece, through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously-graded sight-reading pieces.
Improve Your Sight-Reading! will help you improve your reading ability, and with numerous practice tests included, will ensure sight-reading success in graded exams.
Joining the Dots, Book 1 (Piano): A Fresh Approach to Piano Sight-Reading
Joining the Dots offers pianists lots of material to help build confidence and skill in sight-reading. The series brings together a range of activities to help students improve their sense of keyboard geography, helping them to read new music more quickly and easily.
The books cover the requirements for ABRSM's sight-reading tests at each grade, and include:
many short, characterful pieces to sight-read, in a range of approachable musical styles
warm-up and technical exercises, to establish basic hand shapes and finger patterns within each key
simple improvisation exercises in which students can explore musical ideas and familiarise themselves further with the 'feel' of each key
longer solo pieces and a duet, for additional sight-reading practice or to learn quickly and play through for fun
Grade 1 Piano Sight Reading Intensive Exercise
This book is written for students who are going to take the ABRSM grade 1 piano exam. The exercise in this book are original pieces focusing on the keys that frequently appear in the exam so that students can have enough practice on those keys. Moreover, a list of hints to have a successful performance on sight reading part is also included in this book so that students can have a goal to look for in that 30 seconds preparation time! Tricky things that frequently appear in the sight reading part are surely also appear in the pieces in this book so that students can have more practice on them and avoid making mistakes in the real exam!