You Can Read Music [With CD]

Only I can say it is an excellent detailed book, I was looking online for many books to learn how to read notes.. and i found alot of websites and also books .. i decided to order this book and i found it very very helpful , if you really want to learn how to read notes you should stop looking and buy this book. I receommend it for everyone. I personally love it I hope my review will help you to find what you excatly looking for.

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 80 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.

I bought and read this book some 40 odd pages and already I'm into reading music just like the way the title reads. Good job by the author.