Nick's Daily Sight-Reading

Sight-reading is one of my favourite piano-playing activites. Sight-reading, or playing a prima vista (at first sight), as they called it in the nineteenth century, is where you sit down and play a piece of music that you've never seen before. It's one of the most important skills as a pianist, particularly if you aspire to be an accompanist where it is absolutely indispensible to a proficient sight-reader. I like to practise sight-reading every day, and it's an opportunity to explore different kinds of music. There is a vast corpus of music written for the piano and other keyboard instruments, not to mention music for ensembles, vocal and even orchestral works that can be played on the piano. There's a whole lifetime's worth of music waiting to be played, and sight-reading is a great way to go about it!

I have a YouTube channel, Nick's Daily Sight-Reading, where I aim to upload a new video every day of my sight-reading adventures, exploring many different genres and styles. Check it out!