One of Europe's biggest selling music authors offers an oversize, boldly designed tutorial with CD that teaches how to read music for any instrument. 1,000 illustrations.
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Terry Burrows is one of Europe's biggest selling music authors--his Play Rock Guitar and Play Country Guitar have been published in 11 countries. Most recently the author of The Complete Book of the Guitar (Schirmer, 1998), he lives in Britain.
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76 of 90 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
muddled intent, inaccurate execution,
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This review is from: How to Read Music: Reading Music Made Simple (Paperback)
Hmm...If you aren't learning to read music as you learn to play your instrument, you've got the wrong primer and the wrong teacher. Or maybe you're teaching yourself, so to speak. (A Milton Babbitt witticism: "You know the trouble with autodidacts: they've got the worst teachers.) Or maybe you're not an instrumentalist at all, an interested layman. Well, it doesn't require a whole book to explain musical notation, you know. Musical notation is really very simple. It scarcely requires a chapter. What to do? Get hold of "The ABC of Music: A Short Practical Guide to the Basics" by Imogen Holst (daughter of the famous composer Gustav Holst). Musical notation is explained therein clearly and deftly--and the rest of "The ABC of Music: A Short Practical Guide to the Basics" by Imogen Holst is worthwhile too. If you ARE an instrumentalist you also need to PRACTICE reading music, preferably in a graduated way. Maybe you think yourself too technically accomplished to bother with, say, "The Alfred Guitar Method". Not if you can't read it. If you can play the tunes and exercises easily but read them only with difficulty, then you're ISOLATING the reading, the very thing you need-and you'll move through the series quickly. Get a primer for your instrument. Or perhaps you want to learn how to write down music--a different thing from learning how to read music. Then I can do no better than recommend "The Norton Manual of Music Notation" by George Heussenstamm. Well, I haven't seemed to say much about the book I'm reviewing, not directly. I'm trying not to be negative. I don't have room to set right most of its inaccuracies, but I'll venture to point out two very small errors-they particularly irk me: 1) This book calls a scale a set of notes related to "a tonic or a root". This statement is misleading and dangerous because the terms "tonic" and "root" are frequently confused by novices. A key has a tonic; it does NOT have a root. Neither does a scale. A chord has a root; it does NOT have a tonic. 2) This book says that the singular form of "staves" is "staff or stave". In fact, the singular form of "staves" in the MUSICAL sense of the word is "staff" and "staff" only. It is categorically incorrect to speak of a musical "stave", a solecism.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent for adult education,
By John (Fremont, OH USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How to Read Music: Reading Music Made Simple (Paperback)
Terry Burrows' "How to Read Music" is the ideal for adult students who want to read music without attending classes. Thorough tests are given throughout the book, to assure you understand the material. A CD is also included to help you understand the text better, by listening to examples of written music.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Really useful stuff,
By wedge (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How to Read Music: Reading Music Made Simple (Paperback)
I don't get the negative review at the bottom of the page. As somebody who can already play an instrument to a high level, but couldn't read music, this is a GODSEND. I'd always found the subject intimidating until studying this book - now I don't. I REALLY recommend this book. LOTS
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Think of a simple song that almost everyone knows, for example "When The Saints Go Marching In." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ignore repeat, diatonic major scale, stylized script, compound intervals, natural minor scale, bass staff, enharmonic equivalents, melodic minor scale, treble staff, leading note, second inversion, first inversion, concert pitch, ninth chord, written music, melodic intervals, ledger lines New!
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Think of a simple song that almost everyone knows, for example "When The Saints Go Marching In." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ignore repeat, diatonic major scale, stylized script, compound intervals, natural minor scale, bass staff, enharmonic equivalents, melodic minor scale, treble staff, leading note, second inversion, first inversion, concert pitch, ninth chord, written music, melodic intervals, ledger lines New!
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