This weekend’s competition features a new collection of sight-reading books written by Lindsey Berwin and published by Kevin Mayhew. Funkey! is designed to encourage students to sight-read regularly, by making the process fun and pleasurable. It will also help assist knowledge of keys, rhythmic awareness, and the ability to play fluently. The set comprises five graded levels, with a complete mix of styles from folk music and nursery rhymes to rock and swing. There is a helpful audio CD with backing tracks too.
I have the first three books to giveaway, so please leave your comment in the comment box after this post to be in with a chance of winning. I will announce three winners on Sunday evening (British time).
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.
For more information, please visit the publications page, here.
Melanie Spanswick 
Oh boy I’m the first one to comment! These look to be terrific books-I’d love to try them out!
Wanted to win because too curious to see what’s fun inside…
Those books seem good for my students 🙂
I’d love to try these out, both for me and my students. They look like they make sight reading fun!
Jo
Looks good, would love to try it out
you reminded me when I first began my music lessons..
The books look great! It would be perfect to have them by every student.
These books look great! Would love to see what’s inside and have a go with them!
……curiouser and curiouser………(should i change my name to Alice?)
These books look interesting and fun! Would love to check them out!
Thank you!
I’m trying Book One of these with my pupils, but am very keen to get my hands on the other two. Really enjoying the book and the play-along cd!
These books look as if they could make sight reading a seriously fun activity. No mean feat, Melanie!
I saw these recently and thought they looked fantastic, but I resisted buying as I’ve been trying to break my habit of buying every book I like the look of! If I won one for free, though, that wouldn’t count… 😀
Love the look of these books! Fun and funky sight reading….just what my students need!!
Would love to win this prize!
Pleeeeeeeease
This is wonderful. My students would really benefit from this. I hope to win.
Thank you for such a lovely opportunity! It would be such an honor to win these! (“Pick me, pick me!” As the kids say!!)
These do look interesting. I would love to try these with my students.
I’d love to use these! Do they ship to the US?
These would be a great addition to my library. There aren’t enough books for sight-reading, and these just look delightful!!!
My pupils will really appreciate them. 🙂
Wow — these look great! Would love to add them to my studio library!
When my students forget their books we sightread for the entire lesson. These books would be a blessing to my students and to me.
So cool! You can never practice too much!
I like these books! I would like to have them.
Nice! My students would love this!
nice! i want them for my litle manou
I really love the idea of backing tracks. Always on the lookout for ways to inspire Sightreading.
These look like “fun”!
Sight reading is an area I definitely need a good lively book to help with. This looks great.
How fun! I think sight reading is so very important!
Any of them would be wonderful! Would you ship to the US???
I want these for my kids!!
These books look really unique and interesting! Would love to try them with my students so would be thrilled to win them!
I find everything you recommend is great quality and my students love it. These look to be good resources and I certainly would use them. Thank you for your continued quality recommendations.
These look like great fun – which is what sightreading should be!
Looks fun! I’d love to give them a try
Sight reading can seem like a bit of a chore sometimes, with a reputation for rather dull exercises. So it is refreshing to have a new series of books which include a variety of styles and which aim to be fun to play.
The title Funkey is a great play on words!
I am in! Thank you!!
I would love to try these books with my students!!! Please pick me 🙂
I would love to use these books with my students!!! Please pick me :-).
These sound like a great new resource!
Just love the look of these! I’m gradually building up my beginner books to look more up to date than the very books I learnt on in the seventies! . These certainly fulfil that brief!
sight-reading is one of the top skills that I teach. It’s such a valuable skill-I’d love to have more resources. These books look like they would be really fun!
I reall need some sight reading books. I hope I win!
I have heard only good things about these books! Crossing my fingers maybe I will win one since the ol’ budget is a bit strapped this year!!! Thanks for doing these contests, such a fun way to learn about new materials.
I would love to look at these. I start each lesson with rhythm and sight reading exercises.
I already think sightreading is really fun; hopefully these books might get a few more pupils agreeing with me!?
These books look great for my students!
Woo. Fantastic to use books by local female composers. Intrigued!
These giveaways are so fun! Thanks for doing them. I’d love to take a look at anything that helps with sight reading! Thanks, Melanie!
Never heard of them and now am super intrigued
I’ve already purchased one of them and it’s really great. I would love to try the other ones with my students! May is the sight reading month in my studio 🙂
Thanks for the give away, and I am always looking for new exciting sight reading materials for my studio
Great books!
Great idea, I’m always looking for more of these resources to encourage my students to be less afraid when sight reading.
These look wonderful. Encouraging my students to do more sight-reading.
Good sight reading resources are thin on the ground, so having these would be great.
Cool covers, proper pieces AND backing tracks?! Awesome – with this my students will not even realise they are doing the dreaded sightreading! Seriously, the backing tracks will be great for getting them to just keep going – my main challenge! A welcome change from exercise-based resources. Can’t wait to take a peek!
Sight reading inspiration- its what a lot of students seem to need!!!!
May i Have 1 pretty PLSSSSSSSSSS………
Would love to give these a try and maybe stock them in my store!!!!
I wish to have one 😊
What a funkeyway to improve sight reading. Would love to get hold of those PRECIOUS books. 😄
I LOVE sight reading and am always looking for ways to teach my students to be better sight readers. I would love to win!
Perfect timing for summer lessons and to explore something new! Winning or not, I may have to get me a set!
Sightreading made fun and enjoyable?! Who wouldn’t want to win these?😀
I’m a huge fan of sight-reading myself and love the fact these books look like a fun way of developing the skill without students realising it. I think my students would love these and thanks for letting us know about such a new and exciting looking resource 🙂
These books look great 🙂 I love sight reading.
In haste. Pupil’s concert today. Yes please!
What a grand chance to explore something fresh and fun-key! Thank you
Have so many pupils who would benefit from these books!
Many thanks to all those who took part this weekend! This competition is now closed 🙂