Reddit mentions of WP258 - A Line a Day Sight Reading - Level 1

Hello! Piano is my primary instrument (although I don't perform) and I've been teaching piano for 10 years.

I'll be interested to see how quickly your fingers do pick up the instrument. In my experience, the big challenge with piano is the fact that you're expected to do so many different things at the same time. Voice division happens not just between your two hands (although that can be challenging enough at first) but it also often happens between fingers of the same hand. Every instrument has its hurdles, and this is the big one for piano. But it's not really a hurdle, it's more like a constant uphill battle. I would be very surprised if you worked at it for several months and then one day it just "clicked"; it's more like a very gradual process.

My point is, I've had many very dedicated (and older) students and this is always what trips them up. It can be frustrating to understand all of the theory surrounding the music, and to be able to read the sheet music with ease, but then you can't even play a relatively simple song after hours and hours of practice. Just keep that in mind!

There's probably a better choice for you, self-teaching isn't my area of expertise because of course whatever book I choose for my students, I'm there heavily supplementing and modifying it. But I do generally like Alfred's adult beginner course. You can expect typically several songs per concept before moving on (although it varies), so if you feel as though you've easily mastered something you can skip the next song or two and move on to the next element. They have several courses with several names, you want the one linked below. It wraps up piano, theory, and technical exercises... you can't get one that has piano and exercises without theory but oh well.

https://www.amazon.com/Adult-All-One-Course-Lesson-Theory-Technic/dp/0882848186/ref=pd_sim_14_4?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0882848186&pd_rd_r=1DH8WFM7G5TPK6EWGPP3&pd_rd_w=JPSME&pd_rd_wg=7clgx&psc=1&refRID=1DH8WFM7G5TPK6EWGPP3

I also like the "A Line a Day: Sight Reading" series. They're just bitesized sight reading exercises with increasing difficulty. The books are skinny, there's at least 4 (that's as far as I own up to) and I think it's just a nice package of exercises.

https://www.amazon.com/Line-Day-Reading-Bastien-Basics/dp/0849794226