How to Read Music: Reading Music Made Simple [With Music CD]

by Terry Burrows

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312241593
• ISBN13: 9780312241599
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.6" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

A good book for adult learners…

Easy to follow directions and illustrations. However, it was meant to be used with an attached cd, that was not included with my purchase— very disappointing. Can this be corrected?

No CD!

The CD included is why I bought this book. The CD envelope is still attached to the inside of the front cover but no CD! Very unhappy!

Great, fantastic, what more can I say

I'm a beginer at the piano and I'm using this book in conjunction with a DVD coarse. Where one misses out on details the other picks up. I would recomend this book highly. Goes into detail on the basics.

Really useful stuff

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

Excellent for adult education

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.

Looking To Put Your Music Notes

This book assumes you learn to play an instrument without learnning to read music notation. It tries to match the note with the sound, and test you to see if you know the notes. You take each test using the CD. In order to use the CD correctly The author recommends a CD player that "searches tracks", not a CD that shows "time remaining". You can use a "time remaining CD to synchronize but it's not easy.