Book Synopsis
Learn sight-singing or playing from sheet music, starting from scratch. Then get all the music theory professional and improv musicians and songwriters need. All this using a wide collection of familiar tunes you recognize by name, from the chorus, the refrain, the first line, or the most memorable line.
Having trained a cappella choirs for many years and taught the bowed string instruments, the author knows intimately the problems of new amateur singers and other beginning musicians as they deal with sheet music.
There’s no keyboard work involved. You don’t need keyboard skills to learn sight-singing. You don’t hit key signatures or the letter-names of notes until your ear skills are firmly in place. Even then, the scale ticket makes them optional.
The only aspect of music not covered completely here is rhythm, the only essential for music. You do get the essentials of rhythm notation, but rhythm is best learned in a small group of musicians.