You Can Read Music (with Audio CD) (You Can)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 83 pages
• Published by: Amsco Publications; Pap/Com edition December 31, 1995
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0825615143
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0825615146
• Book Dimensions: 11.8 x 8.9 x 0.4 inches
• Weighs: 2.4 ounces

Product Description
This complete music instruction studio is all you need to begin reading music like a pro. Includes easy step-by-step book and one-hour CD filled with exercises and professional arrangements. The basics can be mastered in just a few weeks.

Reader Reviews
Already could read most music by sight, but occassionally found some kind of notation that I was not familiar with so bought this book. Very good overall The good - - lots of examples make things easy to understand - takes things very slow at the beginning - even someone with no experience in reading sheet music whatsoever should be able to pick up this book and learn everything in a few days - overall, very complete guide, with lots of fairly esoteric notation included (not so much esoteric, but stuff you wouldn't see until very advanced pieces) - pretty well organized, makes for a great quick reference The bad - - kind of pricey for eighty some pages - included cd is nice but not terribly helpful - book is sort of cumbersome - they try to keep it the same size as your other sheet music books might be, but i would rather be leafing through this in my spare time, instead of propping it up on my piano, so the size doesn't really make sense... should have been smaller - sometimes too many examples on simple ideas, not enough on hard ideas - some things are kind of breezed through and it sometimes seems like information is missed - for example, some accent marks that you might find occassionally are not listed in this book, which can be frustrating - this typically means that the mark can be written many ways, and one of the ways *is* in the book, but unless you know all the forms of the accent, you're going to be lost - a few more pages could have been devoted to chords - the information is complete, but fairly 'intense' - there is a lot packed into a very small section Sooooooo... overall I definately give this 5 stars, my complaints, though numerous, are very small, and i HIGHLY recommend this to anyone trying to learn to read sheet music. Comment | | (Report this)