Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0760794375, Spiral-bound)

Synopsis For any musician, the most daunting part of the craft can be learning the language of musical notation. But even if you don't know a time signature from a tenor clef, understanding music is easy with the right tools. In three easy-to-follow lessons, How to Read Music gives you everything you need to take your musical ability to the next level on any instrument, whether you want to play classic tunes on your guitar, understand how to better hit the right pitches while singing, or write your own musical scores. Lesson 1: Pitch Find out the names of the notes and how to remember them, learn the different kinds of clefs and when to use them, and see how a melody is formed. Lesson 2: Rhythm Learn how to count the beats in a measure and visually identify how long each note should be played, from the humble quarter note to more complex notations like slurred dotted sixteenth notes. Begin reading music, and follow along with the CD to match what you see with what you hear. Lesson 3: Chords and Scales Heighten your musical understanding by exploring the musical relationships of notes, including how to transpose music for instruments in different keys. Listen to the CD to become skilled at recognizing everything from a major 7th interval to a D melodic minor scale, and pop in the DVD to see the piano keyboard used to illustrate these musical concepts.