Video blog number 20 focuses on sight-reading. In it, I suggest a few basic tips about how to start practising this important element of piano playing right from the very beginning.
Publications
Melanie Spanswick has written and published a wide range of courses, anthologies, examination syllabuses, and text books, including Play it again: PIANO (published by Schott Music). This best-selling graded, progressive piano course contains a large selection of repertoire featuring a huge array of styles and genres, with copious practice tips and suggestions for every piece.
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Melanie Spanswick 
Sight reading, the pain in the posterior of pains in posteriors. Not everybody can master it, I’m testimony to the fact.
You are right, it’s not easy to sight-read.
Perhaps I should now call myself Can’t Play, Wish I Could Play! This morning I tried to play some of my favourite Christmas carols as I really love Christmas music. However it sounded pretty dire and more like an insult to Christmas than a celebration of it, the reason being that I just cannot read those blooming dots and squiggles. But at least I’m playing the piano again, the Art Tatum and Earl Hines CDs I’ve got out the library are a help for those who just want to play and not worry about sight reading dyslexia.
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