How to Read Music

Filling a niche that has long gone ignored, How to Read Music offers a quick and easy ten-lesson plan that will help any aspiring musician learn to read written music. Combining a brightly laid-out, easy-to-read book with a CD that can be used on any stereo (no computer required), this carefully designed program allows readers to learn the rudiments quickly and begin playing almost immediately on any instrument -- including the human voice. Using simple, jargon-free language and 1,000 illustrations, Terry Burrows offers an approach that can help both novices and "illiterate" self-taught musicians start sight-reading in a matter of days. A dictionary of terms and notation is as well, providing an at-a-glance reference for basic terminology. Affordably priced and attractively pack How to Read Music offers a unique approach to a subject has intimidated generations of aspiring musicians.