can begginers play bach to improve sight reading and fingering?
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you mean someone who is a brand spanking newbie? i don't think so.. bach requires at least a little experince in that genre.

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probably a year of playing
i don't know, can you?
practicing bach can only help your playing.  independance of fingers and hands, technical stuff, it's really good for you.  there are some beginner bach books out there you might want to look into- your local music store can help in that area.
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the two-part inventions are a good place to begin.
there's an old book called "first lessons in bach".  the pieces are easier than the inventions.
that would probably make more sense, whack.
has anyone heard of ferdinand beyer? or wm. scharfenberg?
start with the minuet in g its pretty easy, but was from one of bachs students i think.
all clasical pieces teach your hands to be independent and to sight read. shrock, stop asking so many questions!
bach wrote a series of pieces that were collected in a notebook by his second wife, usually called "the anna magdelena notebook".  they may have been designed to help her learn to play keyboards; the minuet in g referred to above is from the notebook.  if you google "the anna magdelena notebook" you'll find many different collections from it for sale.
oops your right my bad, well anyway that minuet is very nice and pretty easy too.

jv'
practicing scales doesnt make your hands independent?  you heard of ferdinand beyer?
nope, but bach sure does.
what about betooveen?
i don't think any of them help with hand independance like bach. the only other one would be scarlatti.

jv'
contrapuntal music is what helps most not only with hand independence, but with voice independence.  that's why baroque music is being stressed here.  i wouldn't agree as much with scarlatti.
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