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Rhythms Volume One : Music Sight Reading Exercises

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This book gives the serious student a real workout in eighth note rhythms. Personally I haven't seen anything at this level, I congradulate Muse-eek Publishing Company for putting out a book which is obviously geared to the serious student and not the lowest common denominator like most music publishers. Keep up the excellent work

Just wanted to write in and tell everyone how much this book has help me. I've always had a problem reading and playing rhythms. Mr. Arnold's book has really helped. I went to the muse-eek website and got the audio examples and playing those with the exercises has really helped. I think I'll check out the other volumes soon.

This book is pretty good, but I don't know that I'll ever get through the whole thing. It only covers eighth notes and bigger, making it extrememly thorough, but also very boring to play. I got it for piano, but I don't know how helpful it really is because it only drills you on a single measure instead of two at a time, which is what a pianist would play. All in all, though, it is good for memorizing the sound of all the different ways to play eighth notes. As a precursor to this book, or in place of this book, I would recommend 'Sight-Read any Rhythm Instantly' by Mark Phillips, which goes through the whole process of how to properly read rhythm and also exposes the student to different time signatures.