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Schaum Note Speller / Book 2 (Revised)

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I bought this to help me learn the notes for learning how to play piano. Mom recommended it. (she taught piano lessons when I was a baby 30 years ago)

She said it is a classic, and although it is kind of boring, this is what's needed to learn the notes so that I can ultimately read music and play Mozart. It seems to be working.

I leave it in the bathroom with a pencil, and work on it for those few minutes when there's nothing else to do with my mind. ;)

As a piano teacher of over 20 years, this is one of my favorite tools to help get beginners solidly on the road to reading and recognizing the notes of the treble & bass clefs. It will be a little tedious for any child who is not a beginner, but for the rest, it will be a valuable tool to help them with this critical skill.

It begins with the most basic recognition of the lines & spaces, then adds note names to them, and helps with drawing the clefs as well. Recommended!

As an "older beginner" to the piano, I found this speller to be a very helpful work book.

It's difficult to find notespeller books and was glad to find this one on Amazon. It's a great addition to the curriculum I am currently using for my piano students.

This book is a wonderful resource for any student learning to read music notation. While it is intended to be used for piano, it would certainly work for any instrument. There are a few pages devoted to treble and bass clef separately, but many pages have exercises using both notes. It is quite easy to skip the examples using the opposite clef, while still having many practice problems for students.

Also, as a middle school music teacher, one of the biggest difficulties I encounter is students understanding that the shape of the note does not affect its pitch. This book provides many examples of different pitches using all types of rhythmic notes. Likewise, it also provides various rhythms to demonstrate how pitch and rhythmic notation work independently of each other. For the small cost of the book, I think it will provide the needed reinforcement for beginning music readers, no matter their age.

I bought this book for my 7-year-old who just started taking piano. She needed help learning how to read music and this has gotten her off to a good start. She enjoys the exercises (just like she enjoys her math problems...which she really does enjoy) and would sometimes rather work in this book than practice on the keyboard. The book is nothing fancy, but it provides the fundamentals.

Very good book as your student progresses in reading notes and music understanding. Shouldn't be used until after Book One and probably shouldn't be used until the student is in at least 2nd or 3rd year of learning. Teacher may have to review the upcoming lessons! Some of the information is a little challenging to the old memory!

Great to help kids ( or adults) learn how to read music. As must for any piano program.

My daughter had a book that was teaching 2nds, 3rds, and so on and her teacher and I felt like it would be better if she learned the names. I think it will really help her.

As a piano teacher, I find this book the best for introducing students to the basics. It is great for children and adults.