Grade 8 Sight Reading

Concert-level sight-reading challenges. Browse 50 exercises to practice with interactive MIDI feedback.

Simple melodies, limited range, basic rhythms

Wider range, some accidentals, varied rhythms

Both hands active, moderate complexity

Increased coordination, varied dynamics

Complex rhythms, wider intervals

Advanced patterns, chromatic passages

High complexity, demanding technique

Concert-level sight-reading challenges

50 sight reading exercises at Grade 8

Adolf Henselt

Wenn Ich Ein Vögelchen War

~1 min

Artie Matthews

Pastime Rag No. 4

~1 min

Béla Bartók

14 Bagatelles

~1 min

Carl Czerny

Mechanism Study (Op. 849) No. 21-1

~1 min

Mechanism Study (Op. 849) No. 21-2

~1 min

Cesar Camargo Mariano

Samambaia

~2 min

Chloe Flower

Cardi B's Piano Intro to 2019 Grammy Performance

~1 min

Edvard Grieg

Papillon, Op. 43 No. 1

~2 min

Enrique Granados

Escenas Poéticas No. 2

~1 min

Franz Liszt

Transcendental Etude No. 10

~1 min

Transcendental Etude No. 10

~1 min

Transcendental Etude No. 10

~1 min

Transcendental Etude No. 10

~1 min

Transcendental Etude No. 10

~1 min

Transcendental Etude No. 10

~1 min

Transcendental Etude No. 10

~1 min

Transcendental Etude No. 10

~1 min

Frédéric Chopin

Prelude

~2 min

Prelude

~1 min

Secret - Piano Battle Part One

~1 min

Sonata (Op. 58, I)

~1 min

George Gershwin

Prelude No. 1-3

~1 min

Henrique Oswald

Idylle (Op. 33, No. 2)

~1 min

Joe Hisaishi

Soot Spirits

~2 min

Johann Sebastian Bach

Fugue in D Minor (No. 6, BWV 875)

~2 min

Fugue in D Minor (No. 6, BWV 875)

~2 min

Prelude in B♭ Minor (No. 22, BWV 867)

~2 min

Prelude in D Minor (No. 6, BWV 851)

~1 min

Prelude No. 2 BWV 847 in C Minor

~2 min

Sinfonia No. 9 (BWV 795)

~1 min

Johannes Brahms

Intermezzo (Op. 119, No. 3)

~1 min

Juan Tizol

Caravan

~1 min

Ludwig van Beethoven

Sonata in C Major, Op. 2 No. 3

~2 min

Sonata in C Major (Op. 2, No. 3)

~2 min

Marguerite Labori

A Rosita

~2 min

Moritz Moszkowski

Étude No. 1

~1 min

Étude No. 1

~1 min

Étude No. 6

~2 min

Étude No. 6

~2 min

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Dance of the Reed Flutes

~1 min

The Nutcracker

~1 min

Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky

Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy

~2 min

S.Lyapnov

Prelude Op. 6 No. 1

~2 min

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Prelude in G Minor (Op. 23, No. 5)

~1 min

Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5

~1 min

Stephen Heller

Prelude (Op. 81, No. 14)

~2 min

Unknown

qemgin

~2 min

Route 210

~2 min

Sacrifice

~2 min

Terrible Kahoot

~2 min

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