Well, yeah, quality sheet music is to tough to work as toilet paper.

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Originally posted by ShiroKuro:
Btw which preludes and fugues are you playing? Bach?

Have you ever played Inventions? That would be really good practice too, I suspect.

Yes, Bach. I can play a few of the easier P&Fs in the first Well-Tempered Clavier. I read through some of the others now and then, hoping to find a new one to work on.

I've played all the Inventions, some better than others. The Inventions book I have has some Sinfonias, too, which I believe are basically three-voice fugues. I've never worked on any of those, but I think I'll give them a try.

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Originally posted by wtg:
Speaking of old sheet music...

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Listen to the World’s Oldest Sheet Music, a Mesopotamian Hymn Over 3,000 Years Old

https://mymodernmet.com/hurria...placement=newsletter

Cool, wtg!

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Originally posted by ShiroKuro:

I suspect Czerny is good for you in this regard, butif your fingers don't feel rusty, then probably Hanon isn't what you want to spend time on.

How about some of the lower level Music for Millions books?

Also, having written all this, I would love to hear Jon's thoughts, bc I know his sightreading chops are very, very strong.

Actually, my fingers do feel rusty, so I think that Hanon is probably a good plan, at least for a while. Czerny isn't bad, just to change things up.

I have the easy, intermediate, and early advanced Music for Millions books, plus the Sonatinas book and a book of twentieth century pieces by the same publisher and editor. I've played a lot out of the intermediate book, and a reasonable amount of the early advanced one and the modern one. The sonatinas don't grab me, so that one was a waste of money, but that's the breaks. I read through the early advanced one in the early days of lockdown, and I think it helped me brush up my sightreading.

I was enjoying piano less, just because I was having trouble reading with my bifocals, but I got a new pair made for mid-distance tasks and it has made a huge difference.