Filling a niche that has long gone ignored, How to Read Music offers a quick and easy ten-lesson plan that will help any aspiring musician learn to read written music. Combining a brightly laid-out, easy-to-read book with a CD that can be used on any stereo (no computer required), this carefully designed program allows readers to learn the rudiments quickly and begin playing almost immediately on any instrument -- including the human voice. Using simple, jargon-free language and 1,000 illustrations, Terry Burrows offers an approach that can help both novices and "illiterate" self-taught musicians start sight-reading in a matter of days. A dictionary of terms and notation is as well, providing an at-a-glance reference for basic terminology. Affordably priced and attractively pack How to Read Music offers a unique approach to a subject has intimidated generations of aspiring musicians.
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.